Best Passings Lines

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Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are. — Robert Bresson
We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite… — Victor Hugo
The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine,… — J. G. Ballard
The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that there shall always… — Thomas Jefferson
Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had… — Lewis H. Lapham
Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to… — Jean Baudrillard
He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up with adverbial stuffing.… — H.G. Wells
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life… — Samuel Johnson
Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it. — Robert Breault
Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Their [cats] effortless passing between the wild and domestic worlds suggests the kind of grace we need as a species to move between nature and… — Richard Mabey
They (Liverpool players) are passing the cup down the line like a new born baby. Although when they are back in the dressing room they… — Alan Parry
Gun control advocates need to realize that passing laws that honest gun owners will not obey is a self-defeating strategy. Gun owners are not about… — Unknown Author
Strange combination, isn't it--gratitude and resentment? But this is the way I think. Actually, I think everybody thinks that way. Even the children of the… — Otsuichi
I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s -… — Thandie Newton
What occurred to me on [‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’], and also with the passing of her mother, is that there's going to come… — Brad Pitt
The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school. Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing… — Will Smith
Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The hotel is an… — Patti Smith
I can't say I'm happy to be talking about John Ritter and his passing. In my 21 years of Entertainment Tonight, this really was one… — Mary Hart
I'd take out a joint and light it. First, just faking it. Then I started lighting live joints, passing them around to the band, you… — Barbra Streisand
I was shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of my sister, Joan Fontaine, and my niece, Deborah, and I appreciate the many kind… — Olivia de Havilland
Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher. A community of minds, reaching… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our mind have little involvement with… — Daniel Pinchbeck
I was just passing buy some racks of socks and remembered I needed some. So I picked 'em up. 1 black, 2 grey and 3… — Lucas Grabeel
I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if… — Winston Churchill

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