Passed Quotes
1736 Passed quotes by 1334 unique authors
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It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and…
— Bram Stoker
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We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq. But I have to accept, as the months have…
— Tony Blair
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Sheriff Knezovich's bill was poorly-written and not constitutional, according to many attorneys, including myself, that reviewed it. We want to go forward with something that's…
— Matt Shea
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This is the moment behind which I could forget every other moment that has passed.
— Britt Ekland
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And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be the same thing,…
— Leo Tolstoy
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I worked in the media from the late 30's through the early 70's. Politics in general became more liberal both nationally and within the state…
— Jesse Helms
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I know he was definitely beaten by her. I saw it many times. But we had a different way of dealing with her. He'd let…
— David Gest
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A pedestrian seems in this country to be a sort of beast of passage - stared at, pitied, suspected and shunned by everyone who meets…
— Karl Philipp Moritz
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It was a pleasure and a privilege to walk with him [H.D. Thoreau]. He knew the country like a fox or a bird, and passed…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.
— Gene Tunney
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With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that…
— Martin Van Buren
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Ten guards and the warden couldn't have torn me out of those books. Months passed without even thinking about being imprisoned....I had never been so…
— Malcolm X
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An artist need not be a minister or a collector in church, but he must have a warm heart for people, and I find it…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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I know you were just trying to help. But I passed the point of help a long time ago. Look, I know about your people…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Each day, it seemed, another law was passed to impoverish and diminish them, punishing them for whatever success they achieved and rewarding their less competent…
— L. Neil Smith
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What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Just as Hanukkah candles are lighted one by one from a single flame, so the tale of the miracle is passed from one man to…
— Judah Leon Magnes
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It is no wonder you are tempted; on the contrary, it would be something new if you were not, because man's life is nothing but…
— Vincent de Paul
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Thinking it selfish to dwell on her own sufferings, when in the midst of wretches, who had not only lost all that endears life, but…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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Why do all the clerks and navvies in the railway trains look so sad and tired, so very sad and tired? I will tell you.…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There are houses whose souls have passed into the limbo of Time, leaving their bodies in the limbo of London. Such was not quite the…
— John Galsworthy
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Another Christian concept, no less crazy, has passed even more deeply into the tissue of modernity: the concept of the 'equality of souls before God.'…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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They passed out of the shade beneath the eaves and flew into sunglare and silence and it was an action she only partly saw, elusive…
— Don DeLillo
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Night was falling. Birds were singing. Birds were, it occurred to me to say, enacting a frantic celebration of day's end. They were manifesting as…
— George Saunders
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I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of her as heartless,…
— Anne Rice
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