Passages Quotes

538 Passages quotes by 451 unique authors

There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are… — Sylvester Stallone
In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage… — James Surowiecki
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their… — William Howard Taft
The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time. — James Taylor
I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there… — Henry David Thoreau
I'm only interested in rites of passage stories. — Pete Townshend
The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse. — Anthony Trollope
I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scripture is, 'in as much as ye… — Elizabeth Warren
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned… — Walt Whitman
Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we… — Rowan Williams
A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and… — Rowan Williams
Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time, the less available… — Douglas Rushkoff
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses. — John Irving
After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become… — Richard Russo
When a young person is moved by a passion and feels compelled to go on this sort of quest, I think you have to let… — Jon Krakauer
Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end - is a… — Sara Nelson
Travel broadens, they say. My personal experience has been that, in the short term at any rate, it merely flattens, aiming its steam-roller of deadlines… — Laurie R. King
How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that come from the knowledge that if we marry right and live right, our relationship… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
You are life, inventing form. No more can you die on sword or years than you can die on doorways through which you walk, one… — Richard Bach
Perhaps sunlight had always been luminous, and doorways signs of greater passage than that of one room to another. But she’d not noticed it until… — Clive Barker
A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The name was an… — Aldous Huxley
Life is truly a ride. We're all strapped in and no one can stop it. When the doctor slaps your behind, he's ripping your ticket… — Jerry Seinfeld
Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill. — Sheri L. Dew

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