Passages Quotes
538 Passages quotes by 451 unique authors
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Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break.
— Horace
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These poems are a mental sketch as formed / Passage by passage of light and shade / Maintained and preserved to this point / Brought…
— Kenji Miyazawa
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I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is…
— Samuel Johnson
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The majority of people who keel over dead at concerts are killed by a long trumpet passage.
— Garrison Keillor
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That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic…
— Gail Sheehy
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A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
— Charlotte Bronte
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Apertures, passages from one world to another. Man's escape hatches.
— Patricia K Page
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The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes.
— Glenn Gould
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Through each passage and each season, may you trust the goodness f life.
— Charlene Costanzo
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Of course, when one is faced with a canvas, one is no longer alone, and the sense of solitude diminishes. This can be an agreeable…
— Pierre Alechinsky
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Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
— Robert Genn
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Carl Orff's Carmina Burana has the ability to take you from placidity to power in one sonic breath. It is music of dignity and strength,…
— Robert Genn
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Time would fail me were I to try to lay before you in order all the passages in the Holy Scriptures which relate to the…
— St. Jerome
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If you worry, you are a worrier because your mind is saturated with worry thoughts. To counteract these, mark every passage in your Bible that…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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Every one ought to study the Bible with two ends in view: his own growth in knowledge and grace, and passing it on to others.…
— Dwight L. Moody
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Now more than ever I am aware that a person's significant birthdays can either mark the passage of time, or they can mark changes they've…
— John C. Maxwell
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...nothing physical which sense-experience sets before our eyes, or which necessary demonstrations prove to us, ought to be called into question (much less condemned) upon…
— Galileo Galilei
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My mother was born in the city, my dad was an immigrant. Probably from Germany. Could have been Austria, could have been Poland. The borders…
— William Shatner
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Strange priests are they who never straightly walk But all aslant through sideways passage stalk Who never seek their goals in forward lines But move…
— Willard Fiske
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Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother…
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Outward objects cannot take hold of the soul, nor force their passage into her, nor set any of her wheels going. No, the impression comes…
— Marcus Aurelius
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The Bible is a warm letter of affection from a parent to a child; and yet there are many who see chiefly the severer passages.…
— Thomas De Witt Talmage
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The private reader of listener can become an executant of felt meaning when he learns the poem or the musical passage by heart. To learn…
— George Steiner
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