Passings Quotes

1080 Passings quotes by 857 unique authors

A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such… — Marc Racicot
Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease.… — Thomas Sydenham
If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight… — Samuel West
Your existence is passing before you. Grains of sand in the hourglass. The Wicked Witch of the West has you in her castle and she's… — Frederick Lenz
As anger is a passing storm, so it comes not gradually and with signs, but like a sudden sweep of wind or black squall. — James Vila Blake
The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions… — Vernor Vinge
After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig. — Chinua Achebe
The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained… — Vilayat Inayat Khan
From the air, Vatican City looked like a marble Monopoly set. The Church owned all the property from Broadwalk to Illinois Avenue, has three hotels… — Tom Robbins
Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if… — Francis Bacon
Passing the veil does not alter a man; it certainly takes him from the eyes of flesh, but the capacity, the intelligence, the thinking powers,… — Parley P. Pratt
In passing I draw attention to another English expression which often occurs in Dutch texts: "the real world". In Dutch - and I am afraid… — Edsger Dijkstra
I never fail to be moved by knowing that the ground on which I walk is layered with the past- with achievement and strife and… — Eva Hoffman
My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you,… — Whittaker Chambers
The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting… — H. P. Blavatsky
I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and… — Diane Wakoski
Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave. — Franz Grillparzer
Thou shalt understand that it is a science most profitable, and passing all other sciences, for to learn to die. For a man to know… — Henry Suso
I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're… — Juliette Binoche
I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you… — M. Ward
Arsene Wenger's idea is not only to play good football. It's to play good football to win. In my day, we knew that with our… — Dennis Bergkamp
Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has… — Gary Bauer
If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you… — Clive Anderson
It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing… — Adrian Cronauer
As an arts journalist in London, working mainly for the BBC, I interviewed hundreds if not thousands of authors. From them I gleaned a great… — Frank Delaney

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