Pastoral Resources

The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.

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

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

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

Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.

No departure from the truth of nature shall be discovered by the closest scrutiny.

The point of departure of the process to which we wish to contribute is the fact that war is the natural reaction of human nature in the savage state, while peace is the result of acquired characteristics.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

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.

An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.

There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is.

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.

Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.