No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
My mother used to talk about passages and, once in a while, about ordeals. We all have them; we are all shaped… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate,… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I do keep a tiny little journal in which I write passages that I read and want to hold on to. This… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory… — William James Copy Share Image
I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage… — Anton Seidl Copy Share Image
To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. It is a corrective to the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Tattoos are a right of passage. They're a marker of bravery, of maturity, of cultural acceptance. The tattoo represents not only a… — Nicola Barker Copy Share Image
The more I read, the more I see. Connections get made. Lights go on. God speaks. Often, when I am facing some… — Ann Spangler Copy Share Image
The 'tide in the affairs of men' does not remain at the flood; it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There should be a period of time during each practice session when you perform. Invite some friends in to your practice room… — Arnold Jacobs Copy Share Image
If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
At any rate, if evolution turns out to be true, then the Christian should embrace it as one dedicated to following the… — Paul Copan Copy Share Image
If one takes a public stand against, say, most any sin you can think of, one is considered "courageous" and a "defender… — Benjamin L. Corey Copy Share Image
A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Victor Serge died in exile and obscurity, apparently no more than a splinter of a splinter in the Marxist movement. But with… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
These poems are a mental sketch as formed / Passage by passage of light and shade / Maintained and preserved to this… — Kenji Miyazawa Copy Share Image
Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You own a dog with the knowledge that it will move through the stages of existence in fast forward, providing you with… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We see in these swift and skillful travelers a symbol of our life, which seeks to be a pilgrimage and a passage… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That's par for the course.When you're a movie star, it went with it.… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
We store in memory only images of value. The value may be lost over the passage of time, but that's the implacable… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it. — William Penn Copy Share Image
Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking it's… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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