Passes Quotes

976 Passes quotes by 718 unique authors

What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We hold on STEVE's still smiling face as MICHAEL passes by. STEVE's eyes follow MICHAEL out of the room and then the smile disappears. It… — Stephen Fry
The boat dipped and swayed and sometimes took on water, but it did not sink; the two brothers had waterproofed it well. I do not… — Stephen King
New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past; it passes out memories generously like a great lord; it doesn't… — Umberto Eco
A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished,… — Victor Hugo
Clara," he says, my name sounding different somehow when it passes through his lips. "I'll miss you. — Cynthia Hand
The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he is closer to… — Ernst Junger
I told myself 'Everything is a being! The shout that passes into the air is an entity like an animal, since it is born, produces… — Guy de Maupassant
Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependant upon it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure; and look forward… — John Fowles
Teaching is a sacred art. This is why the noblest druid is not the one who conjures fires and smoke but the one who brings… — Kate Horsley
If eternity had a season, it would be midsummer. Autumn, winter, spring are all change and passage, but at the height of summer the year… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Drummer, beat, and piper, blowHarper, strike, and soldier, goFree the flame and sear the grassesTil the dawning Red Star passes — Anne McCaffrey
If I wanted to order a ring for myself, the inscription I should choose would be: "Nothing passes away." I believe that nothing passes away… — Anton Chekhov
Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat over there. Since… — Art Donovan
Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three defects: it is… — Bertrand Russell
If the immutable heart can be grieved by the puppets of its own making, it is Divine Omnipotence, no other, that has subjected it, freely,… — C.S. Lewis
Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'-William Boot — Evelyn Waugh
I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it. — Flannery O'Connor
A bubble of fear passes up my spine. It's the feeling of standing on ice and suddenly hearing it crack under your weight - both… — Hannah Kent
Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually… — Harold Bloom
A year shall I endure for every day that passes until you return. — J.R.R. Tolkien
What is this love that endures decades, passes on sleep, and resists death to give one kiss? Call it agape love, a love that bears… — Max Lucado
...when the words pour out of you just right, you understand that these sentences are all part of a river flowing out of your own… — Pat Conroy
Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes to go in here or there. We always had… — Ralph Steadman
At night, in the garden, it occurs to you that it might have been your heart that left you as you reached the capital. Your… — Sarah Hall

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