Passages Quotes

538 Passages quotes by 451 unique authors

My agency in promoting the passage of the National Bank Act was the greatest financial mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly,… — Salmon P. Chase
The way of the Essentialist means living by design, not by default. Instead of making choices reactively, the Essentialist deliberately distinguishes the vital few from… — Greg McKeown
Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in… — Andrei Tarkovsky
A memorized scripture becomes an enduring friend that does not weaken with the passage of time. — Richard G. Scott
All those years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible and as privately. But, what… — Anne Lamott
We store in memory only images of value. The value may be lost over the passage of time, but that's the implacable judgment of feeling. — Patricia Hampl
The journey toward authenticity, toward becoming whole is made palpable in Maureen Seaton's Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir. It shines its considerable light on… — Unknown Author
Today we are raised with the notion that to be secure is to be financially autonomous. Amassing wealth is viewed as the primary rite of… — Jeremy Rifkin
The new approach to health care will feature the healing power of story. In the clear understanding that finding meaning in any life passage may… — Robert Moss
Let dissolution come when it will, it can do the Christian no harm, for it will be but a passage out of a prison into… — John Bunyan
The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his… — Samuel Johnson
To be baptized means to make the passage with the people of Israel and with Jesus from slavery to freedom and from death to new… — Henri Nouwen
[The passage of the Sugar Act] set people a thinking, in six months, more than they had done in their whole lives before. — James Otis
What is said in James 2:14 ff. is like a two-coupon train or bus ticket. One coupon says, "Not good if detached" and the other… — Charles Caldwell Ryrie
Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. A beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the passage of time. — Martin Amis
In Gilead, the narrator's friend's son describes himself not as an atheist but in "state of categorical unbelief." He says, "I don't even believe God… — Will Schwalbe
... the embryological record, as it is usually presented to us, is both imperfect and misleading. It may be compared to an ancient manuscript, with… — Francis Maitland Balfour
I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in… — William Kidd
A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations. Such matters have… — S. S. Van Dine
We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can… — Janet Reno
The poise of a plant, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every vegetable and animal, are also demonstrations… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When my father finally got around to teaching me to drive, he was impressed at my "natural" talent for driving, not knowing that I had… — Robert Fulghum
Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You… — Charles Van Doren
If eternity had a season, it would be midsummer. Autumn, winter, spring are all change and passage, but at the height of summer the year… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Do not forget, read a passage from the Gospel every day. It is the power that changes us, that transforms us, it changes life and… — Pope Francis

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