Passing Quotes
1379 Passing quotes by 1048 unique authors
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Little self-denials, little honesties, little passing words of sympathy, little nameless acts of kindness, little silent victories over favorite temptations-these are the silent threads of…
— Frederic Farrar
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Neither this body am I, nor soul, Nor these fleeting images passing by, Nor concepts and thoughts, mental images, Nor yet sentiments and the psyche's…
— Unknown Author
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Knowing is passing from the false to the true and seeing the Absolute Whole in the part.
— Mahmud Shabistari
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Yoga is existential, experiential, experimental. No belief is required, no faith is needed - only courage to experience. And that's what's lacking. You can believe…
— Rajneesh
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Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather, speciation 'gathers in' and guards evolutionary change by locking and stabilization for sufficient geological time within a…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they…
— Sugata Mitra
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Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through generation after generation. From an evolutionary point of view,…
— Harvey V. Fineberg
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I am evergreen, and with every passing day, I am becoming younger.
— Mithun Chakraborty
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
— Wendell Berry
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I was listening to one of my favorite songs that Phil wrote and had an extreme emotional moment just before I got the news of…
— Don Everly
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We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing. It…
— Ben Okri
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Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.
— Will Smith
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I started finding hearts in things - whether it was like, a tree I was passing, a straw wrapper on the ground; I think the…
— Drew Barrymore
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I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place…
— Michael Caine
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As a territory, American Samoa has no representation in the U.S. Senate, and we Samoans lost a respected and powerful ally with the passing of…
— Troy Polamalu
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We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present.
— Amanda Harlech
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The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the…
— Henry Rollins
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As a young person growing up in Washington, D.C., summers were hot, humid and relentless. My friends and I grew more restless and adventurous with…
— Henry Rollins
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In the seventeenth century, it was held by some that inside a human sperm there was a minute human being - a homunculus - that…
— John Tyler Bonner
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Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to the eyes of passing strangers;…
— Alice Morse Earle
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With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons.
— John Oates
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Neil Armstrong was no Christopher Columbus. In most respects, he was better. Unlike the famous fifteenth century seafarer, Armstrong knew where he landed. He also…
— Seth Shostak
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I firmly believe that if members of Congress fail to perform their most basic duty in passing a budget, then they do not deserve to…
— Kurt Schrader
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If you go through the regular process of the House and Senate passing companion bills and then try and work out differences in the conference,…
— Austin Scott
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I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on…
— Warren Ellis
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