Passages Quotes
538 quotes by 451 authors
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Every door is another passage, another boundary we have to go beyond.
— Unknown Author
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Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.
— Jerzy Kosinski
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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
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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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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant…
— Hippocrates
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Baptism into this Church is a serious thing. It represents a covenant made with our Heavenly Father. It is much more than a right of…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we…
— Samuel Johnson
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We have got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage.
— Barack Obama
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When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is…
— Rollo May
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Mr. President, passage of this bill will visit the heel of oppression on all the people, vitiate their constitutional shield against tyranny, and materially hasten…
— Strom Thurmond
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My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child, for the brain…
— Wilder Penfield
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You own a dog with the knowledge that it will move through the stages of existence in fast forward, providing you with a lesson about…
— Antonya Nelson
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Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an…
— Barack Obama
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Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in…
— Barack Obama
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Getting a tattoo should hurt. It's a rite of passage.
— Jenna Jameson
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Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the…
— Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the…
— Amelia B. Edwards
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Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash.
— Walter Sickert
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The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Some spiritual traditions view the moment of birth as a passage from a state of wholeness and knowledge to a state of forgetting. In this…
— Bernie Siegel
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