Passing Quotes

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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
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
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
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
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. — Wilfred Owen
If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time. — Anna Neagle
Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true. — Jacques-Henri Lartigue
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age. — Robert Breault
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
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
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
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
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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