Passing Quotes

1379 Passing quotes by 1048 unique authors

My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing from one stage… — Maria Montessori
The result is a twitching convulsion of vicious drivel passing itself off as a movie, which can be best appreciated by the kind of people… — Rex Reed
Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable, and finally has come to look and not to buy. — Marilynne Robinson
The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms. — Maxine Hong Kingston
A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get… — C S Forester
Too many of us dissipate our energy by being 'for all good causes,' attending meetings and passing resolutions, organizing and presenting petitions â€” all this… — Ammon Hennacy
If you ask footballers to pick out the player they most admire, so many of them will pick Paul Scholes. His passing and shooting is… — Alan Shearer
Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision. — Bill W.
In this dark world, the Lord Jesus gave us the task of passing on His love — Corrie Ten Boom
On behalf of Major League Baseball, I am terribly saddened by the sudden passing of Kirby Puckett. He was a Hall of Famer in every… — Bud Selig
Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by. — Rich Mullins
With the broad and powerful swing of the hand which Zola in The Earth gave to his ploughman, L'Auto, journal of ideas and action, is… — Henri Desgrange
Passing competitors always gives you a lift. It probably has a physical effect, too, because you get a surge of adrenaline. — Libbie Hickman
Despite all expectations, the time of my last campaign and of my passing is near. I wish to die at home. Let not my end… — Genghis Khan
All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear… — Richard Harding Davis
It is the simple hypotheses of which one must be most wary; because these are the ones that have the most chances of passing unnoticed. — Henri Poincare
An axiomatic system establishes a reverberating relationship between what a mathematician assumes (the axioms) and what he or she can derive (the theorems). In the… — David Berlinski
I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate… — Agatha Christie
Would you love a man of a broken shell after the passing of a women's soul? — Brian Perkins
Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis? — Christopher Marlowe

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