Passes Quotes

976 Passes quotes by 718 unique authors

Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian location should be chosen for dumping down all kaffirs of the town, passes my comprehension. Of course,… — Mahatma Gandhi
We counsel you, young men, not to pollute your minds with such degrading matter, for the mind through which this filth passes is never the… — Ezra Taft Benson
The public psychology of going into debt for gain passes through several more or less distinct phases: (a) the lure of big prospective dividends or… — Irving Fisher
A fantasy can be equivalent to a paradise and if the fantasy passes, better yet, because eternal paradise would be very boring. — Juan Ramon Jimenez
The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the… — Michelangelo Antonioni
The real skill is to raise the sails and to catch the power of the wind as it passes by. — Thomas Berry
A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season. — Marcus Aurelius
Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another? — Stephen Dunn
Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element… — Augustus William Hare
I sit at my window gazing The world passes by, nods to me And is gone. — Rabindranath Tagore
One is never 100 per cent motivated. In winter, when it's raining and you have to go and play a small team in the north,… — Marcel Desailly
Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his own… — Jan Struther
Feminism died in 1998 when Hillary allowed henchlings and Democrats to demonize Monica as an unbalanced stalker, and when Gloria Steinem defended Mr. Clinton against… — Maureen Dowd
Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity;… — Eliphas Levi
He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days. — Khalil Gibran
I wonder what day I shall die on - one passes year by year over one's death day, as one might pass over one's grave. — John Henry Newman
The fathers who contrived and passed the Consititution were wise in their generation; as time passes, we come more and more to realize their powers… — Learned Hand
Communication always changes society, and society was always organized around communication channels. Two hundred years ago it was mostly rivers. It was sea-lanes and mountain… — Vinod Khosla
With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We must have a new reformation. There must come a violent break with that irresponsible, amusement-mad, paganized pseudo-religion which passes today for the faith of… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best… — Mahatma Gandhi
The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by… — Oscar Wilde
Pluck with quick hand the fruit that passes. — Unknown Author
I am moneys medium. It passes through me- taxes, insurance, mortgage, child support, rent, legal fees. All this dignified blundering costs plenty. — Saul Bellow

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