Passing Quotes

1379 Passing quotes by 1048 unique authors

And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them from… — Donna Tartt
I was thinking about how disjointedly time seemed to flow, passing in a blur at times, with single images standing out more clearly than others.… — Stephenie Meyer
Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has passed… — Ken Kesey
I've always been keenly aware of the passing of time. I've always thought that I was old. Even when I was twelve, I thought it… — Simone de Beauvoir
Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects. — Edwin Muir
But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment: "Stay, thou… — John F. Kennedy
Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours. — Marcus Aurelius
Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we? — Unknown Author
In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something… — Lee Iacocca
In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of… — Thomas Jefferson
Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance. — Alfred North Whitehead
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing; they… — Robert Southey
I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask? — George Gissing
In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman. — Nancy Astor
Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he… — Thomas Jefferson
Our aim in education is to give a full life. We owe it to them to initiate an immense number of interests. Life should be… — Charlotte Mason
Gray skies are just clouds passing over. — Duke Ellington
The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence. — John Steinbeck
The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the… — Albert Einstein
This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return. — Bertrand Russell
We live in such a corporate world where everyone is passing the buck, it seems to me. Therefore I like stories where the individual takes… — Liam Neeson
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all, and it comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible, except with the passing… — Abraham Lincoln
It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any… — Jane Austen
We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy. — Jimmy Carter

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