Passages Quotes

538 Passages quotes by 451 unique authors

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. — Mark Twain
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born. — Erma Bombeck
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I want to treat the sincerity of your… — Nicholas Sparks
Time is more complex near the sea than in any other place, for in addition to the circling of the sun and the turning of… — John Steinbeck
Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that you’d like to remember, write it down in your little book;… — Keith Donohue
He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the color of our… — Jose Saramago
Time's passage through the memory is like molten glass that can be opaque or crystalize at any given moment at will: a thousand days are… — Gloria Naylor
The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep my mind from… — Lisa St. Aubin de TerÃ¡n
That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I… — Jonathan Swift
If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel… — Guy de Maupassant
For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green as mansions long ago, which I use as a commonplace… — Daniel Handler
The worse the passage the more welcome the port. — Thomas Fuller
I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's no one's fault… — James Lee Burke
The child had indeed shut up but all the questions that had accumulated on his tongue circulated in his mouth, moved through the passages of… — Elif Safak
From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its… — Alberto Manguel
The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for the first time… — Elwyn Brooks White
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the… — Annie Dillard
There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that… — Jodi Picoult
And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even… — Homer
If you mean you think it is my job to go into the secret passage first, O Thorin Thrain’s son Oakenshield, may your beard grow… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on… — Graham Greene
When my mother didn't come back I realized that any moment could be the last. Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one… — Peter HÃ¸eg
The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage of time, and forgiveness is… — Charles Baxter

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