Pass Quotes
3309 Pass quotes by 2241 unique authors
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I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now circling the earth, gravity their only tie to the planet. Lonely…
— Haruki Murakami
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Look: the trees exist; the houses we dwell in stand there stalwartly. Only we pass by it all, like a rush of air. And everything…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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I thought: hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For…
— Lu Xun
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Take off your coat." "Excuse me?" "Take it off." "No." "I want it off." "Then I suggest you hold your breath. Won't affect me in…
— J R Ward
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No, I don't think you understand just how stupid goblins are. Let me give you an example. One of the B'wa Kell generals, and this…
— Eoin Colfer
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[My mom's] funny that way, celebrating special occasions with blue food. I think it's her way of saying anything is possible. Percy can pass seventh…
— Rick Riordan
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I watched the early morning light pass over and through the windows of colored glass, leaving streaks of red and green and yellow on the…
— Karen Cushman
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You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city...you go down new streets, you see houses you…
— Samuel R. Delany
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We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.
— Tami Hoag
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There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a…
— Jodi Picoult
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Pictures pass me in long review,-- Marching columns of dead events. I was tender, and, often, true; Ever a prey to coincidence. Always knew I…
— Dorothy Parker
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we travel far and fast and as we pass through we forget where we have been
— W S Merwin
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Its funny how certain objects convey a message -- my washer and dryer, for example. They can't speak, of course, but whenever I pass them…
— David Sedaris
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In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faĆ«ry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Oh time...time, pass so that I forget! Oh time, Great Healer, pass over me and let me forget.
— Betty Smith
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Yes, we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that our inward lives…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by…
— Jacqueline Carey
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That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would…
— Alice Hoffman
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We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later…
— Milan Kundera
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After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.
— Robert Jordan
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Because they claim to be concerned with the welfare of whole societies, governments arrogate to themselves the right to pass off as mere abstract profit…
— Michel Foucault
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Just as I do not know where I came from, so I do not know where I am going. All I know is that when…
— Blaise Pascal
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