Departed Quotes

• I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!

  Frederick Douglass

  Eye, Dark, Night

  Frederick Douglass (2016). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave”, p.60, Xist Publishing

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

  Jack Nicholson

  Want, Environment, Surroundings

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• Church wants you on your place. Kneel, stand, kneel, stand. If you go for that sort of thing, I don't know what to do for you. A man makes his own way. No one gives it to you. You have to take it. 'Non serviam'.

  Frank Costello

  Men, Giving, Church

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• I'm the guy who does his job. You must be the other guy.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Jobs, Guy, Doe

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• The only one that can do what I do is me. Lot of people had to die for me to be me. You wanna be me?

  Frank Costello

  People, Can Do, Dies

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• No one gives it to you. You have to take it.

  Frank Costello

  Giving

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• When you decide to be something, you can be it. That's what they don't tell you in the church. When I was your age, they would say we can become cops or criminals. Today, what I'm saying to you is this: when you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference?

  Frank Costello

  Gun, Differences, Age

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• You can learn a lot, watching things eat.

  Frank Costello

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• Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

  Thomas Browne

  Shadow Of Death, Soul, Shadow

  'The Garden of Cyrus' (1658) ch. 4

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• When you decide to be something, you can be it.

  Frank Costello

  Loaded Gun

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• I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns.

  Jules Massenet

  Stars, Useless, Occupation

  Jules Massenet (1971). “My Recollections (1848-1912).”

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• His huff arrived and he departed in it.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Luck

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• 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.

  Anthony Anderson

  Records, Goes On, Oscars

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• There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.

  William Weld

  Issues, Orthodoxy, Republican

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• Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.

  Hervey Allen

  Civilization, Leaving, Aristocracy

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• I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.

  Robert Walpole

  War, Party, Justice

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• The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.

  Jean Baudrillard

  God, Cat, Order

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• Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Light

  William Law (2001). “The Spirit of Prayer; The Way to Divine Knowledge, Volume 7”, p.62, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here.

  Saint Augustine

  Easter, Heart, Sight

  "Confessions".

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• Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed

  Gustav Mahler

  Failure, Two, Numbers

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• Honesty is not synonymous with truth.

  Vera Farmiga

  Truth, Honesty, Reality

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• Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living: All things fall under this name. The Sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and the light but the shadow of God.

  Thomas Browne

  Fall, Dark, Shadow Of Death

  'The Garden of Cyrus' (1658) ch. 4

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• Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed

  Publilius Syrus

  Confidence, Soul, Return

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• Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long after they have departed.

  Jim Rohn

  Relationship, Impact, Long

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 06, 2016

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• I had a guy at the Groucho bar clawing at my arm nearly in tears saying that until he saw The Departed he thought Americans were the ones on TV. I didn't know you had accents. I didn't know you had a class system. I didn't know you were like us. To which the answer is, probably only where I grew up, but while we're at it don't watch television and think it's the United States of America.

  William Monahan

  Thinking, Class, America

  Source: collider.com

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