Passing Quotes

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Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives. — Gerald Durrell
It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks. — George Eliot
Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress."… — Khalil Gibran
Of all the sacred places on the coast, none is more comforting than where rivers join the sea. By the river's disappearance we are reminded… — Robert Adams
A 'passing' test doesn't mean 'no problem.' It means no problem *observed*. This time. With these inputs. So far. On my machine. — Michael Bolton
In passing, we should here recognize the difficulties presented by the idea of 'fit' and 'unfit.' Who is to decide this question? The grosser, the… — Margaret Sanger
Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being… — Jonathan Swift
Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. — Thomas Gray
When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn… — Carl Rogers
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time... — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by. — Elizabeth Bishop
I will frankly confess that after passing a few weeks in the valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than… — Herman Melville
Doomed Lord's Passing. For the mind of man alone is free to explore the lofty vastness of the cosmic infinite, to transcend ordinary consciousness, to… — Michael Moorcock
Well used are those cruelties (if it is permitted to speak well of evil) that are carried out in a single stroke, done out of… — Niccolo Machiavelli
I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad. — Larry Niven
For a single girl in London, luck isn't always a glass slipper that fits. Sometimes luck is a splash of mud from a passing bus. — Elizabeth Jane Howard
Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? — John Cage
The Greeks do not think correctly about coming-to-be and passing-away; for no thing comes to be or passes away, but is mixed together and dissociated… — Anaxagoras
Some people seem to believe that for each problem there is a solution readily available - a solution that can be promptly achieved by passing… — John W. Gardner
The harsh fact of the matter is when you're passing legislation that will cover 300 million American people in different ways, it takes a long… — John Dingell

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