Passed Quotes
1736 quotes by 1334 authors
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A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind…
— James Joyce
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Jack looked out the window as they passed the Mormon temple, just outside the beltway near Connecticut Avenue. A decidedly odd-looking building, it had grandeur…
— Tom Clancy
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The window opened in the same direction as the king's, and there, summer-bright and framed by the darkness of the stairwell, was the same view.…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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Ned passed the next few minutes quietly not dying in his office, and was pleased with how well it was going. He'd stayed alive longer,…
— A. Lee Martinez
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Watching him, I thought, not for the first time that night, that maybe it should have felt strange to be with him, here, now. And…
— Sarah Dessen
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Is this some sort of test?" "Everything that doesn't kill you is." "Mind you," he added, "surviving doesn't always mean you passed.
— Michelle Sagara
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In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Now when Túrin learnt from Finduilas of what had passed, he was wrathful, and he said to Gwindor: 'In love I hold you for your…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love's embraces met -- Adam, the goodliest man of men since born…
— John Milton
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Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it.…
— Beryl Markham
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Mc Donalds he thought. There's no longer any such thing as a Mc Donalds hamburger. He passed out. When he came around seconds later he…
— Douglas Adams
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There was plenty of life left and if he had to he would use it all to get her back. The time had passed for…
— Anna Godbersen
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The paradox of love is that to have it is to want to preserve it because it's perfect in the moment but that preservation is…
— Elisabeth Eaves
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Pale as ice you passed me by; I wondered what you really felt, And waited through the changing times, To see if you would one…
— John Marsden
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It started when she passed me a note in English class. The note said you don't seem as awful as I hear you are. I…
— James Frey
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Then Elrond and Galadriel rode on; for the Third Age was over and the Days of the Rings were passed and an end was come…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Mothers support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did. When she passed…
— Mitch Albom
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At one time, most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed, it fell silent for all of them. Even Sarah found…
— Chris Van Allsburg
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Many years have passed since that night. The wall of the staircase up which I had watched the light of his candle gradually climb was…
— Marcel Proust
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So many of us had been armed that there were holsters and weapons scattered among the passed-out bodies like mercenary prizes in a fleshy Cracker…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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