If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
A moment of torture feels like an eternity, while an eternity of joy passes in a moment. Perhaps time is naught but an illusion.
Congress has repeatedly passed laws and otherwise raised a ruckus about indecent language on the broadcast airwaves used for radio and television.
Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place.
Just because you want to join the party does not mean you are required to stay until the last drunk passes out.
After reviewing the polygraph charts in private, the polygraph examiner told me that I had passed and that he believed I had nothing to do with the anthrax letters.
Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress.
I'm not bragging, but just going Sunday to Sunday, it will be a real rare game when I don't catch a pass.
I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date.
Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?
Not sorry, not calling, not crying All will pass like smoke of white apple trees Seized by the gold of autumn, I will no longer be young.
What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.
Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God’s sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.
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 Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye.
As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed.
Our mother was so public - we always talked about her. But with her passing, all of a sudden we don't even want to talk about her.
Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform.
When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.
Indeed, the future is signalled in the past, but time has to pass to see it. Art is the witness. BLOG post-Perpetual Beginning-November 14 2011
I never felt I would get to the stage where I would to have to actively think about retiring from international football as I always thought it would pass me by.
