Passed Quotes
1736 quotes by 1334 authors
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In addition, the bill passed by the House requires a person performing an abortion on a minor from a different state to notify one parent…
— Virgil Goode
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"We will make such a chase as shall be accounted a marvel among the Three Kindreds: Elves, Dwarves and Men. Forth the Three Hunters!" Like…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Britney's a really cool girl, We were really close back when we were on the Mickey Mouse Club, and even watching her in interviews I…
— Christina Aguilera
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A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from…
— Alexander Herzen
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The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.
— Harry Houdini
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Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts…
— Ellen Glasgow
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When a person has adequate self-esteem little slights offer no threat at all - they are simply "passed over" and ignored. Even deeper emotional wounds…
— Maxwell Maltz
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A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the dark, my master let down his guard and he was Caleb again. He didn't correct me. He didn't punish me. He didn't push…
— CJ Roberts
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You have had many sadnesses, large ones, which passed. ... But please, ask yourself whether these large sadnesses haven't rather gone right through you [that…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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The boat dipped and swayed and sometimes took on water, but it did not sink; the two brothers had waterproofed it well. I do not…
— Stephen King
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It all started off with stirring speeches, Greek columns, the thrill of something new. Now all that's left is a presidency adrift, surviving on slogans…
— Paul Ryan
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These proceedings may at first seem strange and difficult, but like all other steps which we have already passed over, will in a little time…
— Thomas Paine
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In our short walks we passed the kitchen where food was prepared for the nurses and doctors. There we got glimpses of melons and grapes…
— Nellie Bly
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The few surviving Armenians no longer ask to go home. They do not ask for restitution. They ask simply to have the memory of their…
— Chris Hedges
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Homer and Candy passed by the empty and brightly lit dispensary; they peeked into Nurse Angela's empty office. Homer knew better than to peek into…
— John Irving
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The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over…
— Keith Henson
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Why shed tears that you must die? For if your past life has been one of enjoyment, and if all your pleasures have not passed…
— Lucretius
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If we really believed that those who are gone from us were as truly alive as ourselves, we could not invest the subject with such…
— Lydia M. Child
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Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded…
— Elihu Root
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