Passed Quotes
1736 Passed quotes by 1334 unique authors
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As the Roman Empire came to its close, all the old gods of the pagan world were seen as demons by the Christians who rose.…
— Anne Rice
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My life is passed in making bad jokes and seeing them turn into true prophecies.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another…
— Neil Gaiman
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Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew…
— Emily Dickinson
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If you passed me walking home from school, you probably wouldn't even notice me. That's because I'm just a kid like you. I go to…
— Richard Paul Evans
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A friend of mine who passed through a most severe trial, when I discussed it with him, he said simply, if it’s fair, it isn’t…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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The thing about witchcraft," said Mistress Weatherwax, "is that it's not like school at all. First you get the test, and then afterward you spend…
— Terry Pratchett
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I have passed out of childhood into old age. I have had no youth - no womanhood; the hopes of womanhood have closed for me…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright unclouded day.
— Emily Bronte
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No," I snapped. "I mean, no. I'm answering. I'm just collecting my response." Another few seconds passed. Is there a time limit for this?" he…
— Sarah Dessen
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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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