Passing Quotes

1379 Passing quotes by 1048 unique authors

Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing nets, twenty dolphin-lengths… — Richard Dawkins
Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub. — James Joyce
There's more truth about a camp than a house. Planning laws need not worry the improvising builder because temporary structures are more beautiful anyway, and… — Roger Deakin
Barcelona players are passing the ball at least 25 times to reach the goal, while Real Madrid's Xabi Alonso is doing this all in a… — Roberto Mancini
Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. — Alan Bennett
This world is not my home, I'm just a passing thro', My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue; the angels beckon me from… — Albert E. Brumley
But I looked out at the waves far below the bluff. They looked violent, erupting against the cliff. I watched them rising - up, up,… — Jaimal Yogis
A ghost is a human being who has passed out of the physical body, usually in a traumatic state and is not aware usually of… — Hans Holzer
Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration:—feelings,… — William Wordsworth
I actually don't feel the years passing, although the younger players make sure to remind me of my age. If there's a clip of Bobby… — Ryan Giggs
We must stop setting our sights by the light of each passing ship; instead we must set our course by the stars. — George C. Marshall
This world is not my home, I'm just a passing through... — Albert E. Brumley
I could not clearly distinguish what was passing in my head; it seemed to me that I was under the influence of a horrible dream… — Alfred de Musset
No it was not the novelty, and it was not the danger and the adventure (although these had their charm). It was certainly not a… — Pauline Gower
Above all, as the keynote of all Democratic policy, in passing upon any question, let the controlling aim and ambition be to keep the road… — John W. Davis
The passing of Marxism-Leninism first from China and then from the Soviet Union will mean its death as a living ideology ... . For while… — Francis Fukuyama
I guess it's like trying to put through the flat tax, which is probably my favorite one of all.... if we did pass it, all… — Clint Eastwood
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
Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year. — Oliver Goldsmith
And if a diversion is needed, why not arrest a general? Arthur Dillon is a friend of eminent deputies, a contender for the post of… — Hilary Mantel
Every time you have a desire, in a certain sense you have a goal, something you would like to be, do, or have. Some desires… — Shakti Gawain
Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life. — Bernard of Clairvaux
How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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