Passed Quotes

1736 Passed quotes by 1334 unique authors

Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone. — Arthur Brisbane
The book is a uniquely durable object, one that can be fully enjoyed without being damaged. A book doesn't require fuel, food, or service; it… — Lewis Buzbee
Breaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow their instinct. There will always be persuasive reasons not to take a… — Clayton Christensen
We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out. — Peter Weiss
Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from… — Hubert H. Humphrey
When the storm has passed, put your energy into rebuilding your life, don't waste time looking back. — Leon Brown
Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have… — Edward Dahlberg
I have never doped … I have competed as an endurance athlete for 25 years with no spike in performance, passed more than 500 drug… — Lance Armstrong
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose… — Samuel Johnson
The Children's Health Insurance Program has given Democrats a wide-open door for socialized medicine. The door was left open by Republicans, who were in the… — Jack Kingston
The teaching of one virtuous person can influence many; that which has been learned well by one generation can be passed on to a hundred. — Kano Jigoro
The ten days we passed there [at Ta Chêng Tzu], we were the song of the drunkard and the jest of the abjects; but the… — James Gilmour
When you have worn out yourshoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber ofyour body. I measure your health by the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In general, the bigger a mountain the older it is. The biggest mountains were built before any others, because when they were built there was… — Mikhail Lomonosov
There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue… — William Booth
The composer must bear in mind that the radio listener does not hear music directly. He hears it only after the sound has passed through… — Raymond Scott
On the strength of strong public support, I will have (the postal reform bills) passed within this session, — Junichiro Koizumi
The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing friends… — Robert Southey
One day the President and Mrs. Coolidge were visiting a government farm. Soon after their arrival they were taken off on separate tours. When Mrs.… — Calvin Coolidge
Character: The ability to carry out a worthy decision after the emotion of making that decision has passed. Character simply stated is doing what you… — Hyrum W. Smith
I don't know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to be in a… — Erma Bombeck
Now the word-symbols of conceptual ideas have passed so long from hand to hand in the service of the understanding, that they have gradually lost… — Wilhelm Wundt
The educational system should be a sieve, through which all the children of a country are passed. It is highly desirable that no child escape… — Paul Popenoe
Few legislators who passed these mental health laws realized that (Brock) Chisholm and his associates defined mental illness as a sense of loyalty to a… — Unknown Author

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