Passed Quotes
1736 quotes by 1369 authors
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October is the cruelest month of any election year, but by then, the pain is so great that even the strong are like jelly and…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave…
— Edna O'Brien
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There are books which one should not attempt before having passed the age of forty.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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We passed hieroglyphic scrolls, gold jewelry, sarcophagi, statues of pharaohs, and huge chunks of limestone. Why would someone display a rock? Aren't there enough of…
— Rick Riordan
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Ben Adaephon Delat," Pearl said plaintively, "see the last who comes. You send me to my death." "I know," Quick Ben whispered. "Flee, then. I…
— Steven Erikson
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The officers saluted as she passed and gravely bowed. They walked back across the courtyard and got into their chairs. She saw Waddington light a…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Dantes passed through all the stages of torture natural to prisoners in suspense. He was sustained at first by that pride of conscious innocence which…
— Alexandre Dumas
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I feel kind of depressed today... Do you ever have the feeling that life has passed you by? Worse than that... Sometimes I think life…
— Charles M. Schulz
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It seemed as if some subtle current of recognition had passed between them... not as if they had met before... but as if they had…
— Lisa Kleypas
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By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair.…
— H.G. Wells
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She couldn’t read his expression. As he started toward her, she recalled the way he’d seemed to glide through the sand the first time she’d…
— Nicholas Sparks
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I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner…
— Bill Gates
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The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our faces.
— Nicole Krauss
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Leto turned a hard stare at Kynes. And Kynes, returning the stare, found himself troubled by a fact he had observed here: This Duke was…
— Frank Herbert
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She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There,…
— Khaled Hosseini
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Sometimes I feel that life has passed me by... Do you ever feel that way, Charlie Brown?" "I feel that it has knocked me down…
— Charles M. Schulz
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And then it went, and time passed properly once more, every second following every other second just like they're meant to.
— Neil Gaiman
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Everybody is waiting for the end to come, but what if it already passed us by? What if the final joke of Judgment Day was…
— Jonathan Nolan
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Once I passed through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions, Yet now of all that city…
— Walt Whitman
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And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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