Passed Quotes
1736 quotes by 1369 authors
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It passed, though. That was the bad thing. It always passed.
— Sarah Dessen
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If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There…
— Penn Jillette
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Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.
— Gustave Flaubert
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As for Ellai, she told her sister what had passed, and Nitid wept, and her tears fell to earth and became chimaera, children of regret...
— Laini Taylor
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Percy: I thought I’d lost my mom forever, and I was stuck on a hill in a thunderstorm fighting this huge bull dude while Grover…
— Rick Riordan
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The GPS unit became almost equally obstreperous, though, over Richard’s unauthorized route change, until they finally passed over some invisible cybernetic watershed between two possible…
— Neal Stephenson
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No.†He wouldn’t lie about that. Not to her. And not because she’d rip him to pieces when she discovered the truth. “I can’t give…
— Gena Showalter
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Time expands and contracts. When it expands, it’s like pitch: it folds people in its arms and holds them forever in its embrace. It doesn’t…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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You didn't want to die. Most mortals don't, even if they find themselves in as desolate and soul-destroying a spot as you. Almost all of…
— Darren Shan
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Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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And even if these scenes from our youth were given back to us we would hardly know what to do. The tender, secret influence that…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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Whatever was about, whoever I had seen, and heard rocking, and who had passed me by just now, whoever had opened the locked door was…
— Susan Hill
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The Atheist waits for proof of God. Till that proof comes he remains, as his name implies, without God. His mind is open to every…
— Annie Besant
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The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert. From…
— Edward Said
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Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch…
— Epictetus
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If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There…
— Mohsin Hamid
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The numbness of his loss had passed, and the pain would hit me out of nowhere, doubling me over, racking my body with sobs. Where…
— Suzanne Collins
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She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through, Then…
— Shel Silverstein
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The trees bathed their great heads in the waves of the morning, while their roots were planted deep in gloom; save where on the borders…
— George MacDonald
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