Passed Quotes

1736 Passed quotes by 1334 unique authors

My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - In Corners - till a Day The Owner passed - identified - And carried Me away… — Emily Dickinson
You're dying right now. Right this minute.' He looked at his watch, said, 'Right this second,' then tapped it with his finger. 'See there? That… — Billie Letts
He had never thought of himself as much of a praying man, but as he sat in the car in the growing darkness and the… — Elizabeth George
After a childhood of hungering to be an adult, my hunger had passed. Unexpected fates had begun to catch my notice. These middle-aged women seemed… — Lorrie Moore
She liked to imagine that when she passed the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. — Alice Sebold
The truth was I'd given up waiting long ago. The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives… — Nicole Krauss
Offer it up personally,then. Right now. I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of how many people… — Elizabeth Gilbert
They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures who secreted some of the nastiest toxins in the world, which is why the job of looking… — Terry Pratchett
When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it… — Zora Neale Hurston
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring… — Albert Einstein
Where's Simon?"..."Is he okay? Why isn't he here?" She glared at Derek. "Where'd you leave him?" Passed out in an alley." Derek frowned in thought.… — Kelley Armstrong
I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep,… — Beryl Markham
His outflung hands traced over the threads of his rug, passed loop by loop through some patient woman's hands. Or maybe she hadn't been patient.… — Lois McMaster Bujold
I give thanks for all that has passed, for all that is passing, and for all that is yet to come. — Meg Rosoff
I’m giving you that chance now. (Stryker) It’s too late. Too many centuries have passed. There was a time when I lived only to hear… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
She often spoke to falling seeds and said, "Ah hope you fall on soft ground," because she had heard seeds saying that to each other… — Zora Neale Hurston
When someone leaves you, apart from missing them, apart from the fact that the whole little world you've created together collapses, and that everything you… — Helen Fielding
What's this about?" "Finally. Interest," was the only response. "If this is one of your tricks..." Like the time Torin had ordered hundreds of blow-up… — Gena Showalter
I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there. I sat there watching… — Richard Brautigan
Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes… — Leo Tolstoy
Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective. — Joseph Heller
Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest… — Edward Carpenter
From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes. — Neil Peart
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included women's rights as part of its reforms.… — Adam Selzer
But the three siblings were not born yesterday. Violet was born more than fifteen years before this particular Wednesday, and Klaus was born approximately two… — Daniel Handler

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