Passed Quotes
1736 quotes by 1334 authors
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I've written and passed laws to give Medicare beneficiaries access to life saving cancer drugs and to ensure that seniors don't have to give up…
— Ron Wyden
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It took a little over a decade to build a coalition strong enough to beat the insurance companies, but in 1990, then Senator Tom Daschle…
— Ron Wyden
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If baking is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.
— Regina Brett
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I don't know if I'd ever want to show my college life in the films I make. I think I've passed that stage long ago.
— Anurag Kashyap
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This morning the world by moonlight seemed to be an immemorial acquaintance I had always meant to befriend. If there was ever a chance, it…
— Marilynne Robinson
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I wondered what it was like to be inside her, just a curl of flesh swimming in the darkness, the quiet things that had passed…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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A foolhardy lot, we accepted it all, as we always do, never asked: "What is going to happen to us now, with this invention of…
— Doris Lessing
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I marvel at how good I was before I met him, how I lived molded to the smallest space possible, my days the size of…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see…
— Stephen King
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Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.
— Umberto Eco
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Time passed slowly, like and old man climbing a hill.
— Roger Zelazny
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...If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot…
— Hugh Laurie
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Time passed. Art came off the walls and became rituals. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And big business, if…
— Tom Robbins
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Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying…
— William Hazlitt
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By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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galatea was a serious girl. she was pale and looked like tears all over. big ed passed his hand through his hair and said hello.…
— Jack Kerouac
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Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.
— George Eliot
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nights and days came and passed and summer and winter and the sun and the wind and the rain. and it was good to be…
— Margaret Wise Brown
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