Passing Quotes
1379 quotes by 1082 authors
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Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
— Walter Scott
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I think immortality is the passing of a soul through many lives or experiences, and such as are truly lived, used and learned, help on…
— Louisa May Alcott
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During chemo, you're more tired than you've ever been. It's like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you're out. But you also find…
— Melissa Bank
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Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally…
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
— Wilfred Owen
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If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time.
— Anna Neagle
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Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.
— Jacques-Henri Lartigue
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Meditation simply means a state of no-thought, awareness without the process of thought, just pure, mirror-like awareness, with no thoughts passing in the mind.
— Rajneesh
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Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking,…
— Mark Helprin
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My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, and till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, for then she never looks upon her lure.
— William Shakespeare
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The spirit must be felt so intensely that it has power to call others in passing, for it must pass, not stop in the pictures...
— Emily Carr
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When a mother asked her small child how he fell out of bed, he answered, "Because I wasn't in far enough." Let me just say…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
— William Cowper
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The religious urge in man is not a mere passing phase in the history of his spiritual development, but the ultimate source of all his…
— Muhammad Asad
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Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age.
— Robert Breault
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We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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It seems to be saying perpetually; 'I am the end of the nineteenth century; I am glad they built me of iron; let me rust.'…
— Hilaire Belloc
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The six thousand years of human history form but a portion of the geologic day that is passing over us: they do not extend into…
— Hugh Miller
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Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.
— John Ruskin
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For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will…
— Aristotle
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