Passings Quotes · Page 9

With my dad passing away, he's always watching me-a big smile on his face, watching every snap on the 50-yard line.

— Russell Wilson

I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply…

— Alexander Theroux

Passing my motorcycle theory test gave me a disproportionate feeling of greatness.

— James McAvoy

Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy.

— Nick Cave

Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.

— Marya Mannes

Thank God for the passing of the discomforts and vile cuisine of the age of chivalry!

— Mason Cooley

Putting your hand into a river, you simultaneously touch the last of what is passing and the first of what is coming.

— Leonardo da Vinci

I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think…

— Ellen Glasgow

Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me…

— Nick Clooney

For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be…

— Aristotle

Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a…

— Ferdinand Mount

This was one of those special occasions when I could actually feel the inner appreciation of the beauty of the moment passing…

— Prince Charles

The sun of her [Great Britain] glory is fast descending to the horizon. Her philosophy has crossed the Channel, her freedom the…

— Thomas Jefferson

He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties…

— Claude Debussy

Why do we cling to life and why are we afraid of death? You may not have thought about it. The reason…

— Rajneesh

Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short…

— Joshua Foer

He had regrets, of course, but not so many that he would lose any sleep over them. Life surprised him now and…

— Steve Perry

Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and…

— Anna Quindlen

The ancients waited for cherry blossoms, grieved when they were gone, and lamented their passing in countless poems. How very ordinary the…

— Junichiro Tanizaki

Everything we do is escapism, because we'll all be dead and everything we do is completely meaningless. Why brush your teeth? Why…

— T.C. Boyle

And if you look at society, the way it works, they are creating, from cradle to grave, left-brain prisoners. To advance in…

— David Icke

But here, in the murk of conflagration, where scarcely a friend is left to know we, the survivors, do not flinch from…

— Anna Akhmatova

Are you a King? Are you an Emperor? Can you stop the days passing by? If you cannot, you are nothing!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The passing of the years awakens in our hearts the cry for permanence.

— F.B. Meyer

“Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.”

— Annie Dillard

Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who…

— William Shakespeare

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.

— Oswald Chambers

...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.

— Ray Bradbury

I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.

— Edvard Munch

The British are so incestuous. They pass around partners like they're passing popcorn at a movie.

— Cameron Diaz

Sometimes we'll only see each other in passing, like ships passing in the night.

— Justin Hartley

The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations.

— Frederick Lenz

I couldn't stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day.

— Becca Fitzpatrick

Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.

— Walter Scott

Time is passing, ... We have to look at the reality of the situation and ... redouble our efforts and get on with it.

— Colin Powell

In high school, every last one of the passing schemes was designed for me.

— Antonio Gates

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.

— Horatio Alger