Passes Quotes

976 Passes quotes by 718 unique authors

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise. — Robert Scheer
We see the water of a river flowing uninterruptedly and passing away, and all that floats on its surface, rubbish or beams of trees, all… — Tikhon of Zadonsk
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark... — Orison Swett Marden
Too much of what passes for design now is theater. It's one thing to be eccentric- and by the way, most eccentrics tend to be… — Albert Hadley
As time passes, you will look back with twenty-twenty hindsight, and you will say, 'Thank God He did not answer my prayers' or 'Thank God… — Greg Laurie
Time passes swiftly, but is it not joyous to see how great and growing is the treasure we have gathered together, amid the storms and… — Winston Churchill
It amazes me how much of what passes for knowledge in cancer therapy turns out to be incomplete, inadequate, and anecdotal. — Ralph W. Moss
"Chess has definitely helped me understand a lot of the strategy of football. In chess, good offense is often an exercise in putting multiple points… — Unknown Author
The rule of no realm is mine. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, those are my care. And… — J.R.R. Tolkien
We stand for organized terror - this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution. Our aim is to fight… — Felix Dzerzhinsky
Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted experience, in which… — Peter Matthiessen
Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of such predators, all… — Gilbert Sorrentino
No hint of genuine charity ameliorates our vision of society, once sentimentalism has been laid side. What passes for cooperation turns out to be a… — Michael Ghiselin
To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of… — John Cowper Powys
There are people starving in the siege, there are children traumatized and terrified. There are men women and children dying. This is a situation that… — Hanan Ashrawi
We are … the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the love of things… — Ralph Caplan
When I hear that I realize how quickly time passes and how everybody goes on their journeys and they're always unbelievable and they never go… — Rob Lowe
Every arena of life intersects with what's going on in our hearts. Everything passes through on its way to wherever it's going. Everything. — Andy Stanley
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally.… — Salvatore Quasimodo
Nothing passes. Everything stays with you. Everything makes it’s mark. — Shelagh Delaney
Look at your hand. Its structure does not match the structure of assertions, the structure of facts. Your hand is continuous. Assertions and facts are… — Michael Frayn
I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where… — John Guare
Nature has invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward. As a life force that passes right through us and makes us a… — Louis Schwartzberg
Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In… — Gregory David Roberts

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