Passages Quotes

538 Passages quotes by 451 unique authors

At any rate, if evolution turns out to be true, then the Christian should embrace it as one dedicated to following the truth wherever it… — Paul Copan
I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds. — S. J. Perelman
Going to Europe, someone had written, was about as final as going to heaven. A mystical passage to another life, from which no-one returned the… — Shirley Hazzard
If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful… — Marquis de Sade
If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced decision that the… — Lyndon B. Johnson
It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal fortitude… — Frank Yerby
In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking… — George Orwell
Dialogue must appear realistic without being so. Actual realism-the lifting, as it were, of passages from a stenographer's take-down of a 'real life' conversation-would be… — Elizabeth Bowen
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in transit… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If you really look at hip-hop dance, it's really a rites-of-passage thing. You never see the arms release down. They're always up in fighting position.… — Unknown Author
I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading, nothing now remains to comfort… — John Selden
As the work progresses the careful reader will insert mental interrogation points here and there. He will find that his interest increases as the interrogation… — John Bates Clark
Daily meditation keeps me sane. I memorize prayers or poems that express my highest spiritual ideals, and quietly, word for word, go through the prayer… — Ashley Judd
... It was the idea of facing a future skimming the surface of life, winging my way in and out of other people's crises, confusions,… — Anna Quindlen
Birth leads to death, death precedes birth. So if you want to see life as it really is, it is rounded on both the sides… — Rajneesh
We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name… — Noah Webster
Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and… — Henri Nouwen
In the sheltered heart of the clumps last year's foliage still clings to the lower branches, tatters of orange that mutter with the passage of… — Jacquetta Hawkes

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