Passes Quotes

976 Passes quotes by 718 unique authors

The evening passes somehow; I watch television with Nancy, or I write. It is difficult, not having a family, and it is difficult to explain.… — Anita Brookner
There's no way out of this, it's stark: live or die. Every given moment a bubble that bursts. Step on, from one to the next,… — Carol Birch
It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened… — Marian Burros
And he isn't crying for her, not for his grandma, he's crying for himself: that he: too, is going to die one day. And before… — Nicole Krauss
I'm standing under a sign that says, 'Budweiser is king of beers,' and everybody's got their beers here today," I told them. "But I'm here… — Phil Robertson
Action is the music of our life. Like music, it starts from a pause of leisure, a silence of activity which our initiative attacks; then… — Salvador de Madariaga
It requires but a very small glance of thought to perceive, that although laws made in one generation often continue in force through succeeding generations,… — Thomas Paine
The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would be folly for… — Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.Everything passes.That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of… — Osamu Dazai
Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes.… — Jim Butcher
The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes… — Harold Bloom
Whenever the urge to exercise comes upon me, I lie down for a while and it passes. — Robert M. Hutchins
It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television. — Andy Rooney
That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes. — Albert Einstein
The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large… — Confucius
I'll see you later, he says, and as he does, he runs his finger briefly over my wrist. It passes over me like air, and… — David Levithan
A child's eyes, those clear, wells of undefiled thought - what on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet… — Caroline Norton
If you are angry, and then happy, the next moment the anger passes away. Out of that anger you manufactured the next state. These states… — Swami Vivekananda
Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans for it. — George Jung
Through woods and mountain passes The winds, like anthems, roll. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all… — John Henry Newman
How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch. I was soon to be catapulted into what… — Bill W.
Honor to the earth," the abbot said, "honor to the dead in the passing of the year; honor to the living, in the coming of… — C J Cherryh
A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Sometimes I'm haunted by the thought that we only have one life and we live it provisionally, waiting in vain for the day that our… — Ignazio Silone

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