Passes Quotes

976 Passes quotes by 718 unique authors

Think of it as the Doorway of No Return. The feeling must be that your lead character, once she passes through, cannot go home again… — James Scott Bell
Did you ever, think when the hearse passes by, that someday in it you will lie? — Kelly Braffet
It is a grave misconception to regard the mystical progress as passing mostly through ecstasies and raptures. On the contrary, it passes just as much… — Paul Brunton
We are enveloped in peace, whether or not we feel ourselves to be at peace. By that I mean the peace that passes understanding is… — Brennan Manning
Well, in regards to surfing, I’ve learned that there is always another wave coming. Translated that means there is always tomorrow. No matter how badly… — Gerry Lopez
My mom just died. We blink and another decade passes. I don't want to reach the end of my life and regret not having given… — Diana Nyad
It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false. — Pierre Bayle
We're not really afraid to die. We're only afraid of being forgotten. We know that we'll be forgotten, and the idea is unbearable, don't you… — Karin Fossum
Man beholds the earth, and it is breathing like a great lung; whenever it exhales, delightful life swarms from all its pores and reaches out… — Peter Wessel Zapffe
It is too often believed that a person in his progress towards perfection passes from error to truth; that when he passes on from one… — Swami Vivekananda
The purpose of pure science is to observe phenomena and to trace their laws; the purpose of art is to produce, modify, or destroy. Strictly… — Unknown Author
Men don't make passes at crones with big (rhymes with passes). — Cybill Shepherd
But look within and watch the stuff coming up-restlessness, anxiety, impatience, pain-just watch it come up and don't get involved. Much to your surprise, it… — Henepola Gunaratana
Shankara commented on Krishna, on the Upanishads, on the Brahma Sutras. Ramanuja commented on the ancient enlightened people, Vallabha did the same. It has always… — Rajneesh
Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance. — Robert Breault
Though weary, it is not tired: though pressed it is not straightened; though alarmed, it is not confounded; but as a living flame it forces… — Thomas a Kempis
The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes. — Paulo Coelho
If anyone should doubt whether the electrical matter passes through the substance of bodies, or only over along their surfaces, a shock from an electrified… — Benjamin Franklin
Love is the air that I breathe, like oxygen. When I lack it, I feel atrophied, asphyxiated. When I have it, I feel I am… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Tao is obscured when men understand only one pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. Then clear expression also becomes… — Zhuangzi
Let us not demand of ourselves that we alone must be the agent of change. In a fire brigade everyone passes along a bucket, but… — Deepak Chopra
Down time is where we become ourselves... a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel… — Anna Quindlen
The more repression there is, the more need there is for irreverence toward those who are responsible for that repression. But too often sarcasm passes… — Paul Krassner
I like one nice man because he gets three tickets for the cinema so we've got somewhere to put our coats. He passes the test.… — Anne Robinson
...Ned always said that the man who passes the sentence should swing the blade, though he never took any joy in the duty. But I… — George R. R. Martin

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