Passes Quotes

976 Passes quotes by 718 unique authors

When we hit a nail with a hammer the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes into a point… — Simone Weil
Jesus made it possible for us to have the peace that passes all understanding-the kind that carries us, stabilizes us, grounds us, and keeps us… — Stormie Omartian
If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come… — Suzanne Collins
Time passes faster and faster, but with every project I always want to find the next challenge and the next challenge is just as exciting… — Alexander Wang
The body ages, grows, passes through near-lunatic phases of reproductive frenzy, but you are born and die essentially the same person.That... that is proof of… — Chuck Palahniuk
No one ever gets too big to make mistakes. The secret is that the big man is greater than his mistakes, because he rises right… — George Matthew Adams
My face, my self, what would they mean to anybody? Just another stiff. So this self of mine passes some other's self on the street… — Haruki Murakami
Boys don't make passes at female smart asses. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
It just makes me realize how . . . fleeting life can be. How quickly it all passes by. And it's strange to read something… — Toni Blake
Perhaps the price of comfort is that life passes more rapidly. But for anyone who has lived in uneasiness, even for a short, memorable duration,… — Arthur Nersesian
He was my ultimate present my own personal miracle and I'd blown it. I'd given him away. It was like winning backstage passes to meet… — Colleen Houck
Well, I'm not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time… — David Dinkins
A story begins and it always passes from the subjunctive to the declarative. And Italians don't seem to care about making a fine distinction between… — Donna Leon
Each day she removes a small portion of the unwanted things in people's lives, though all of it, she thinks, was previously wanted, once useful.… — Jhumpa Lahiri
Growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just… — Jim Butcher
Women are the most charitable creatures, and the most troublesome. He who shuns women passes up the trouble, but also the benefits. He who puts… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The moon is setand the Pleiades; Middle ofthe night, time passes by,I lie alone. — Sappho
The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only… — Bertrand Russell
After all, it was only a story,' I said, determined to prove her wrong. 'All manner of terrible things may happen in a story. They… — Chris Priestley
You are still young, so you think only of your own self. You do not notice the tribulations that occur all around you, to other… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Experiences is just paying attention as time passes. — Erin McKean
The political trend is always to be observed, partly as a spectacle, partly for one's own safety. The liberal is dissatisfied with regime; the anarch… — Ernst Junger
Only one thing abides: an infinite beauty that passes from form to form, eternally changed and revealed afresh. — Georg Buchner
There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but… — J C Ryle
He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the… — James Joyce

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