Famous Quotes & Sayings

And the man said, They are departed hence; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan.

And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me: / For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.

And they departed from Hashmonah, and encamped at Moseroth.

And they departed from Ebronah, and encamped at Eziongaber.

And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.

And when the devil had ended all the temptation, he departed from him for a season.

Ambrose Bierce

Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth.

Anthony Anderson

Leo couldnt deliver Mr. Martin Scorsese his Oscar with The Aviator, but I will go on record to say I will do so in The Departed.

Lucy Stone

The press, many-tongued, surpassed itself in reproaches upon these women who had so far departed from their sphere as to speak in public.

Susan Wiggs

She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.

Mark Twain

If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he had passed for in life. They would realise, deep down, that they, and whole nations along with them, are not really what they seem to be-and never can be.

Henry Miller

As far as history goes I am dead. If there is something beyond I shall have to bounce back. I have found God, but he is insufficient. I am only spiritually dead. Physically I am alive. Morally I am free. The world which I have departed is a menagerie. The dawn is breaking on a new world, a jungle world in which lean spirits roam with sharp claws. If a am a hyena I am a lean and hungry one: I go forth to fatten myself.

Jack Nicholson

I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.

Jane Lindskold

Firekeeper still could not understand the human penchant for eating in company. Even less so, she could not understand the human desire to combine business and meals. True, a wolf pack shared a kill, but not from any great desire to do so—rather because any who departed the scene would be unlikely to get a share... She struggled...not to bolt her food and almost always remembered that growling when a person spoke to you was not a proper response.

J. K. Rowling

And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, equals, they departed this life.

Ovid

Ants do no bend their ways to empty barns, so no friend will visit the place of departed wealth. [Lat., Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania nunquam Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.]

Jimmy Carter

I have been reluctant to publicly castigate an administration, but I think this particular administration has departed from all previous presidents, ... Our Endangered Values.

Alexander Woollcott

His huff arrived and he departed in it.

Kelley Armstrong

Dearly departed, scarcely lamented, deeply demented...

Lord Byron

Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great!

Haruki Murakami

He appeared before me and departed. We were not able to speak to or touch each other. But in that short interval, he transformed many things inside me. He literally stirred my mind and body the way a spoon stirs a cup of cocoa, down to the depths of my internal organs and my womb.

Leonard Cohen

Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone.

Washington Irving

It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour, which, like a billow, has rolled us onward towards the grave.