Passing Quotes

1379 Passing quotes by 1048 unique authors

There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro. — Elliott Abrams
The war on drugs is not being won, and it continues to threaten stability and democracy not only in the Andes but throughout the Caribbean… — Elliott Abrams
Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea. — Najib Razak
You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic. — Ira Sachs
In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it. — Timothy Noah
As someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with most of the 20th century presidents, I have often thought that their accomplishments have little… — Robert Dallek
An AIDS-free generation would mean that virtually no child is born with HIV; that, as those children grow up, their risk of becoming infected is… — Anthony Fauci
When students and liberals initially occupied Tahrir Square, it looked like it might be a passing thing. — Richard Engel
I was very chatty and talkative and always getting sent out of class for talking too much and not paying attention, passing notes. — Lucy Punch
Modern Americans suffer from a fear of judging. Passing judgment on the behavior of fellow human beings is considered an act of medieval, undemocratic intolerance. — Lewis B. Smedes
The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they… — August Wilson
Rather than passing a thousand pages of tax reform legislation and restarting the tax code manipulation process, we should change the paradigm. It is time… — Jim Bridenstine
The Giver of Existence is Eternally Existent; there is no harm, therefore, in the passing of beings, for the things that are loved continue to… — Said Nursi
The thing about praising beauty is that good looks are an unforgiving task- master, a Forth Bridge of a maintenance job. The passing years present… — Laurie Graham
When you are up there, feeling infinite space, the earth looks like a fragile planet against the immense universe. We are just another fleeting species,… — Guy Laliberte
Sound is a movement which is handed on from atom to atom in a gas through which the sound is passing, just as a chain… — William Henry Bragg
I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature on interrogation. With… — Martin Seligman
Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read. — Joanna Scott
Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching… — Paul Martin
The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one. — F. H. Bradley
Mounting a large rock, I was able to see a considerable body of the enemy moving by the flank in rear of their line engaged,… — Joshua Chamberlain
Extreme nationalism and Bolshevism have broken up the old world, a new world is in the making. It is literally true that old things are… — John Raleigh Mott
Just last week, I was successful in passing two bi-partisan amendments through the House of Representatives that aim to address the even larger problem of… — Mark Kennedy
Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon… — Frances Wright
I was never a Certified Public Accountant... I just had a degree in accounting. The reason I was never a Certified Public Accountant was because… — Bob Newhart

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