Passing Quotes

1379 Passing quotes by 1048 unique authors

You can teach all the other stuff, you know. You can teach shooting the ball, you can teach having a good touch... passing and whatnot,… — Freddy Adu
It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time. — Questlove
Twice in his life Eugene Victor Debs took the long leap to the Ultima Thule of prison, passing beyond the realm of the acceptable into… — Marguerite Young
Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory? Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty. — Jean Shepherd
All in all, Tolkien fans are as varied, remarkable and marvelous as the books and the worlds that they share. They make me feel a… — John Howe
I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot bear to see… — Matthew Scully
What is the secret to great living? Entire separation to Christ and devotion to Him.Â Thus speaks every man and woman whose life has made… — Amy Carmichael
Every sensation shares the same characteristic: it arises and passes away, arises and passes away. It is this arising and passing that we have to… — S. N. Goenka
Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation. — Conor Cruise O'Brien
I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was amnesia. Although my… — Tom Hayden
You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of… — Sydney Schanberg
U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will… — Christiane Amanpour
For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex offenses and requiring… — Mel Carnahan
Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound. For a dangerous ledge off… — Celia Thaxter
In passing, I firmly believe that research should be offset by a certain amount of teaching, if only as a change from the agony of… — John Edensor Littlewood
It is only by fidelity in little things that the grace of true love to God can be sustained, and distinguished from a passing fervor… — Francois Fenelon
Purely sensual love is never true or lasting, for which reason first love is, as a rule, but a passing infatuation, a fleeting passion. -… — Richard von Krafft-Ebing
Don't let some hell bent heart leave you bitter. When you come close to sellin' out reconsider. Give the heavens above more than just a… — Lee Ann Womack
The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of the spell of… — Theodor Adorno
Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it. — John Calvin

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