Passing Quotes

1379 Passing quotes by 1048 unique authors

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
The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series… — Henepola Gunaratana
Becoming an artist is about sitting and paying attention to the world that is passing everyone else by — Blaine Hogan
With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it. — Mignon McLaughlin
Pay no heed to the passing religious vogue. Go back to the grass roots. Open your hearts and search the Scriptures. Bear your cross, follow… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. — Eric Hoffer
In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection as… — John Dewey
Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art… — Robert Kennedy
We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on… — William Hazlitt
Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the… — Erica Jong
We who follow Christ are men and women of eternity. We must put no confidence in the passing scenes of the disappearing world. We must… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Passing through the fire of meditation, everything that is not your authentic reality, everything that is borrowed, will be burned away. — Rajneesh
Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation. — Abraham Lincoln
No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn… — Samuel Johnson
The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents… — Walter Savage Landor
There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard.… — Nelson DeMille

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