Passed Quotes
1736 Passed quotes by 1334 unique authors
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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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Kahlan ambled toward the door. "Well, my breasts aren't as large as yours Berdine." She slowed as she passed Raina. "I think Raina's hands would…
— Terry Goodkind
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Cara burst into a hearty laugh. She clapped Richard on the back as he walked passed. "I like her, Lord Rahl. You may keep her.
— Terry Goodkind
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The tree was so old, and stood there so alone, that his childish heart had been filled with compassion; if no one else on the…
— Karl Ove Knausgard
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One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of us speaking, the…
— Glen Duncan
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Time doesn’t, as advertised, heal all wounds. Although the wrenching immediacy of grief eventually passed, the settled sorrow that replaced it might in its own…
— Dean Koontz
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And of course Charlotte hasn't eaten a bit of dinner," Henry said, getting up. "I'll go see if Bridget can't make her up a plate…
— Cassandra Clare
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And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer. The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too…
— Haruki Murakami
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SEASONS PASSED, FALL AND WINTER and spring and summer. Leaves blew in through the open door of Lucius Clarke’s shop, and rain, and the green…
— Kate DiCamillo
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Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit, was the source…
— Dean Koontz
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The wolf stared down at me, paws still on my chest, its shaggy tail thumping from side tot side and spraying us both with snow.…
— Jennifer Estep
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To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bore so clearly the mark of the…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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After a geological epoch passed in which single-celled organisms evolved into talk show hosts, Mr. Coffee was still holding out on me.
— Darynda Jones
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Here ends the SILMARILLION. If it has passed from the high and the beautiful to darkness and ruin, that was of old the fate of…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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A few minutes later, she was once again riding her own horse. Deciding to take the lead, she nudged the mare into a trot, and…
— Julie Garwood
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These really are our days, and we can prevail and overcome, even in the midst of trends that are very disturbing. If we are faithful…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the years passed. In…
— Julian Barnes
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And no, it wasn't shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both: remorse. A feeling which is…
— Julian Barnes
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Agustus asked if I wanted to go with him to Support Group, but I was really tired from my busy day of Having Cancer, so…
— John Green
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As the carriage whipped forward, they passed the alley she had spent so many days staring at—it was there, and then gone as they careened…
— Cassandra Clare
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But if the strength ain't real, I recall thinking the very last thing that day, before I finally passed out, then the weakness sure enough…
— Ken Kesey
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