Passage Quotes

469 quotes by 420 authors

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. — Arthur Ashe
I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep… — Arthur Ashe
Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good… — J. G. Ballard
I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack… — Orlando Bloom
Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage. — Tom Brokaw
After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the… — Tori Amos
All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still… — David Hume
As labor creates the wealth of the country, we demand the passage of such laws as may be necessary to protect it in all its… — John Peter Altgeld
The doctrine of evolution implies the passage from the most organised to the least organised, or, in other terms, from the most general to the… — John Hughlings Jackson
The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed. The total result… — C.S. Lewis
The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night. — Friedrich Nietzsche
New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created… — Hamilton Wright Mabie
In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for… — Saint Augustine
Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter. — Nadine Gordimer
Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. — Javier Bardem
The wisdom of the appearance of the spirit in the body is this: the human spirit is a Divine Trust, and it must traverse all… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
Every door is another passage, another boundary we have to go beyond. — Rumi
Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time. — Jerzy Kosinski
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly. — Henry Taube

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