#depart

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#departure #elaborate #idea #more #point

Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to what is done in Guantanamo or elsewhere by the Americans. They do not stand on a high moral platform to preach to others. ↗

— Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

#actions #authorities #basis #compare #department

He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department. ↗

— Bill Scott

#criminal #crooks #department #did #get

However, the Department of Defense treats these detainees in accord with the Geneva Convention, even though that is not required because of the inhumane methods used by these killers. ↗

— Bill Shuster

#because #convention #defense #department #detainees

I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you. ↗

— Jean Shepherd

#accounting #collars #cost #damn #damn thing

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

#departures #find #lay #life #more

Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941. ↗

— Albert Speer

#became #both #charge #conditions #dealt

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim. ↗

— Alice Foote MacDougall

#after #again #almost #arrives #because

Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure. ↗

— Petrarch

#curiosity #departure #follow #i #into

We intend to keep the lines of communication open with the Defense Department so we can help our border law enforcement agencies navigate the equipment application process. ↗

— Henry Cuellar

#application #border #communication #defense #department