Passed Quotes

1736 quotes by 1334 authors

I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been, because millions of years have… — Lee Kuan Yew
Joy passed, but happiness never completely disappeared; a touch of it would always remain to remind one it had been there. It was happiness that… — Anne Holm
I was worried that all the corners of the earth had been explored, all the great battles fought. The famous people on TV were athletes… — Eric Greitens
Often there might be a big boulder of misery over your path about to fall on you, but your friends among the dead hold it… — John O'Donohue
I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on a human scale… — Edward Hirsch
There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the air feels like… — Andrei Codrescu
If I had my way no one should be taught to read until after he had passed his hundredth year. In that way, and in… — John Kendrick Bangs
There are times in the lives of most of us, when we would have given all the world to be as we were but yesterday,… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Frightened of my futureless life, scared by my foolish anxieties, unable to see ahead and aiming nowhere, I continued ceaselessly living my ridiculously idiotic life.… — Tatsuhiko Takimoto
Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone. — Arthur Brisbane
The book is a uniquely durable object, one that can be fully enjoyed without being damaged. A book doesn't require fuel, food, or service; it… — Lewis Buzbee
Breaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow their instinct. There will always be persuasive reasons not to take a… — Clayton Christensen
We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out. — Peter Weiss
Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from… — Hubert H. Humphrey
When the storm has passed, put your energy into rebuilding your life, don't waste time looking back. — Leon Brown
Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have… — Edward Dahlberg
I have never doped â€¦ I have competed as an endurance athlete for 25 years with no spike in performance, passed more than 500 drug… — Lance Armstrong
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose… — Samuel Johnson
The Children's Health Insurance Program has given Democrats a wide-open door for socialized medicine. The door was left open by Republicans, who were in the… — Jack Kingston

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