Passed Quotes

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The grace of God, says Luther, "is like a flying summer shower." It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had… — Alexander MacLaren
High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high and… — Hendrik Willem van Loon
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others. — Samuel Richardson
Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers… — Tim O'Reilly
When we have passed the tests we are sent to Earth to learn, we are allowed to graduate. We are allowed to shed our body,… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only… — Samuel Johnson
History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been… — Douglas MacArthur
Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of… — Henry Ford
Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could there be in God which… — Johannes Kepler
The world little knows how many of the thoughts and theories which have passed through the mind of a scientific investigator, have been crushed in… — Michael Faraday
We must hide our unholiness in the wounds of Christ as Moses hid himself in the cleft of the rock while the glory of God… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
[N]obody can produce new evidence of your depravity that will make God change his mind. For God justified you with (so to speak) his eyes… — J I Packer
The angels did not merely sin and lose heaven, but they passed beyond all other beings in sin and made themselves fit denizens for hell. — Charles Spurgeon
Everything I know, see or hear, every part of my life is transformed into dresses. They are my daydreams, but they have passed from dreamland… — Christian Dior
A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we… — Samuel Johnson
These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and… — George Eliot
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency and… — Lyndon B. Johnson
On playing Batman and his daughter: If I was doing the sequel to Frozen I would be a hero. My two older daughters could give… — Ben Affleck
In this Revolution, no plans have been written for retreat. Those who will not get into step will find that the parade has passed them… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A decree of death has been passed on America. The judgment of God has been rendered, and she must be destroyed. — Louis Farrakhan

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