Passages Quotes

538 Passages quotes by 451 unique authors

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
These poems are a mental sketch as formed / Passage by passage of light and shade / Maintained and preserved to this point / Brought… — Kenji Miyazawa
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
The majority of people who keel over dead at concerts are killed by a long trumpet passage. — Garrison Keillor
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
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
A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life. — Charlotte Bronte
Apertures, passages from one world to another. Man's escape hatches. — Patricia K Page
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
Through each passage and each season, may you trust the goodness f life. — Charlene Costanzo
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
Life is a passage through a museum of beauty. — Robert Genn
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
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
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
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
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
...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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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