Passing Quotes · Page 18

Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree.

— Ernest Bramah

Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones.

— Frederick Tennyson

The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.

— Sigmund Freud

Enough of passivity and passing time while waiting for the boy friend, the girl friend, the Goddess, or the Revolution.

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?

— Davy Crockett

By taking revenge a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing over it he is superior.

— Denise Clark

The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.

— Vladimir Putin

If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering…

— Samuel West

The educational system is pretty much geared to passing the next exam. You're educated to pass tests and not to understand.

— Noam Chomsky

I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Some kids would deliberately knock shoulders with me while passing by. Students from other classes would then put trash all over my…

— Park Bo-young

I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be…

— Barry Diller

This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.

— Bertrand Russell

Provence has become a moveable feast. To the south is the glittering Mediterranean; to the north are the Alps, while to the…

— Carol Drinkwater

Right now anything made for the iPad is like performance art. I'm not interested in performance art. Comics are too hard to…

— Art Spiegelman

Wake up and realize this is all made up of thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought; your aversion…

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Only a few kinds of images force you to shut your eyes: death, suffering, the opening of the body, some aspects of…

— Orlan

The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that…

— Thomas Jefferson

Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions." She was lecturing him, so…

— Patricia Briggs

But I looked out at the waves far below the bluff. They looked violent, erupting against the cliff. I watched them rising…

— Jaimal Yogis

I was really sickened with people passing on comments that I have nasal touch while singing. Naturally, when anyone sings with high-pitched…

— Himesh Reshammiya

Karina Longworth, the genius behind 'You Must Remember This', has quite correctly spun off her series about the Sharon Tate murders as…

— David Hepworth

We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one…

— Gore Vidal

Life is passing you by as you speak, you're on a path and you're all on the same path toward death.

— Emily Haines

Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely…

— Tecumseh

It took about five years until we were properly over Freddie's passing. You learn to live with it.

— Roger Taylor

If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time.

— Anna Neagle

Is this year over yet? Too many people are passing away. Rest In Peace, George Michael.

— William Shatner

Rondo is great with the steals, also on offense with the passing and court vision.

— JaVale McGee

“Time is passing : not leaden stepping But sprinting on winged feet, Quick silver slipping by.”

— Richard L. Ratliff

If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and who is…

— Wilma Mankiller

Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.

— Otto von Bismarck

Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.

— Arthur Golden

The Beatles are a passing phase, symptoms of the confusion about us.

— Billy Graham

American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.

— Diane Sawyer

Every single day I want you to be happy and full of joy, just like you make me happy by just passing…

— Donna White

There is nothing more important than parents passing on a generational legacy of faith and values to their children.

— James Dobson

I do want to be a mother. I like the idea of passing on what my mother passed on to me.

— Elisabeth Moss