Passages Quotes

538 Passages quotes by 451 unique authors

Saint Augustine ... insisted that scripture taught nothing but charity. Whatever the biblical author may have intended, any passage that seemed to preach hatred and… — Karen Armstrong
The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my… — Sarah Wayne Callies
House passage is good news for the Northwest corner and our environment. — Nancy Johnson
[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even… — William Penn
Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global... — Rene Thom
He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not previously disturbed either birds or… — Dean Koontz
You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you’ve found life. I’m… — Thomas Pynchon
And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Natural disasters in Bolivia have been getting worse with the passage of time. It's brought about by a system: the capitalist system, the unbridled industrialization… — Evo Morales
Alice Malloy had dark, stringy hair, and even her husband, who loved her more than he knew, was sometimes reminded by her lean face of… — John Cheever
I look upon every good man, as a good book, lent by its owner for another to read, and transcribe the excellent notions and golden… — John Flavel
As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept… — Otto Dix
Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language or code. Myth… — Kenny Smith
RESPIRATOR, n. An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth of an inhabitant of London, whereby to filter the visible universe in its passage to… — Ambrose Bierce
The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro with Renoir’s impressionism. The gloom and shadows of claustrophobic chambers contrasting with the… — Ella Leya
The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life. — Heather Mills
There should be a period of time during each practice session when you perform. Invite some friends in to your practice room and play a… — Arnold Jacobs
Becoming internally empowered shifts a person's center of gravity from external to internal- a mark of spiritual passage. — Caroline Myss
Adjusting to the passage of time is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches. — Dolly Parton
Perhaps there will be prattlers who, although completely ignorant of mathematics, nevertheless take it upon themselves to pass judgment on mathematical questions, and on account… — Nicolaus Copernicus
In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways… — Saint Augustine
I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I… — Joseph Addison
For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage by means of… — Alberto Manguel
My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that next to the… — James Boswell

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