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Quotes About Departures

Someone who loved night arrivals and dark departures, for the hell, the fun, the death of it?
~ Ray Bradbury
Airports and train stations are where you get to cry
~ Karen Joy Fowler
Life is all arrivals and departures.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
~ Alexander Smith
where he talked with railroad staff about their methods of scheduling arrivals and departures until Edison finally was ready to return to San Francisco on the 5:42 p.m. train.
~ Jeff Guinn
It is the prowess of scholars that meetings bring delight and departures leave memories.
~ Thiruvalluvar
In this mythology of seafaring, there is only one means to exorcise the possessive nature of the man on a ship; it is to eliminate the man and to leave the ship on its own. The ship then is no longer a box, a habitat, an object that is owned; it becomes a travelling eye, which comes close to the infinite; it constantly begets departures.
~ Roland Barthes
Everyone makes me happy some people when they come into my life, others when they go.
~ kambiz shabankareh
Death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits.
~ John Webster
Two of the most difficult parts of our business is trades and when a player leaves.
~ Masai Ujiri
We may mean nothing to time, but to each other we are kings and queens, and the world is a wild benevolent garden filled with chance meetings and unexplained departures. Magda
~ Simon Van Booy
There is truly no other place bearing so much love as airports.
~ Ioana-Cristina Casapu
Stepping back from almost any situation with an underperformer, it's always easy to see the solution. They need to move on—sooner rather than later. Up close, however, organizations tend to draw out departures, as people fret about the employee's emotional reaction to being let go. Oftentimes, managers feel guilty about putting a friend out of work, or remorseful they didn't give candid enough feedback along the way, or both.
~ Jack Welch
Best of stories are created at Airports, Dinner Tables and Showers!
~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber
Every great strategy has focus, and a company's strategic profile, or value curve, should clearly show it. Looking at Southwest's profile, we can see at once that the company emphasizes only three factors: friendly service, speed, and frequent point-to-point departures.
~ W. Chan Kim
Five by five they walk down the street of arrivals. It is actually the street of departures but no one knows it. This is a one-way street.
~ Charlotte Delbo
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
~ Alexander Smith
Jim's departures were always uncomfortable.  
~ Patrick Lencioni
Yet because curiosity implies delay, and delay is regarded as a luxury (but what's the hurry, anyway?), we have become used to life being a series of arrivals or departures, of triumphs and failures, with nothing noteworthy in between.
~ Paul Theroux
if there is a conventional explanation for an observation, it is almost always the right one. Radical departures should be accepted only when they explain phenomena that older ideas fail to accommodate. In
~ Lisa Randall
In this our life there are no beginnings but only departures entitled beginnings, wreathed in the formal emotions thought to be appropriate and often forced. Darkly rises each moment from the life which has been lived and which does not die, for each event lives in the heavy head forever, waiting to renew itself.
~ Delmore Schwartz
The church arises only from the gospel. And a distorted church usually coincides with a distorted gospel. Whether it leads to such distortions or results from them, serious departures from the Bible's teaching about the church normally signify other, more central misunderstandings about the Christian faith.3
~ Mark Dever