Passages Quotes

538 Passages quotes by 451 unique authors

At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting was promptly defeated.… — Arthur Gordon Webster
For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement… — Alan Lightman
A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie. — Maurice Jarre
Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world. — Sydney Brenner
I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on… — Jennifer Carpenter
Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear… — Larry Craig
I don't expect that because I was successful in one field that I will then get a ride of passage into another. — Agyness Deyn
One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the passage of time.… — Geoff Davis
We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic… — Ken Follett
Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None… — H. L. Mencken
The passage of time eliminates some of the more intimate details of one's existence. The routine trivia like passing water and shitting and the amount… — Ray Davies
The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money.… — Eric Hoffer
Our Keystone legislation received strong bipartisan support in the Senate. Although it didn't receive the 60 votes necessary for passage, 56 senators - a majority… — John Hoeven
I think everyone starts in the mailroom at some point! It's a right of passage. Your boss has to throw something at you and order… — Michael B. Jordan
It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground. — Bob Seger
Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage to… — Roman Jakobson
Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description of mental conflict.… — Susan Sontag
The passage is free for those who think you are not good enough for them: at your level, I think the best option is to… — Michael Bassey
The round towers of the castles looked as if they were so firmly encrusted in the sky that, to get to their other side, one… — Hope Mirrlees
Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage. — Hank Nuwer
Sometimes I feel that 'Footloose' is the rite of passage. — Craig Brewer
The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different… — Rollo May
A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride. — J D Salinger
So often we look at a calendar of days as merely a symbol of the passage of time. We forget why we are on this… — Lynn Andrews
There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more… — Alexis de Tocqueville

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