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departures
«In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place to-day, it is vain to seek it there to-morrow. You can not lay a trap for it.»
Author: Alexander Smith
(Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Pleasure
| Keywords:
arrivals, departures, morrow, surprising, The Arrival, trap, unexpected
«Life: a cycle. A series of events, meetings, and departures. Friends discovered, others lost, Precious time, wastes away. Big droplet tears are shed for yesterday, but are dried in time for tomorrow, until all that remain are foggy, broken memories of a happy yesteryear.»
Author: Daniela Gallo
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
breaking away, break away, cycle, cycles, cycle on, cycling, departures, discovered, dried, droplet, droplets, foggy, in time, meetings, series, shed, wastes, wasting away, yesteryear
«Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.»
«There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.»
Author: Tennessee Williams
| About:
Time
| Keywords:
certain, departure, departures, in no time, No Place to Go, place
«It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.»
Author: Coco Chanel
(Fashion designer)
| About:
Fashion
| Keywords:
accessories, accessory, arrival, arrivals, departure, departures, fashion, herald, heralding, heralds, prolongs, The Arrival, The Herald, The Unseen, unforgettable, unseen
«Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Justice,
Politics
| Keywords:
civil, Civil society, departure, departures, eminent, No Policy, policy, suspicion
«Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
| About:
Change,
Peace,
Sadness
| Keywords:
awareness, constitute, departure, departures, disturbances, followed, interim, occasions, realities, recurrence, recurrences
«Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.»
Author: Charles Dickens
| Keywords:
actor, begets, begot, beneath, brief, circle, confusion, departure, departures, dug, dust, familiar, habituate, habituated, instant, monotonous, narrow, objects, propagated, propagates, propagating, rock, sand, scene, signal, signaling, space travel, sprung, travels
«An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Ideas
| Keywords:
departure, departures, elaborate, elaborated, transformed
«The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
aircraft, attack, departure, departures, menace, menaced, menaces, menacing, The Menace
