It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to make a blues record.
We have been frustrated that there are a number of incumbents in Maryland offices who have been in office for years and years and show no movement or desire to pass the torch.
I believe that if that vision or dream comes from God, He will also give you the strategy to bring it to pass.
If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds.
The president of the United States, on Inauguration Day, takes an oath to faithfully execute the laws. Those are the laws that are passed by Congress.
Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read.
Time is, in fact, a cross to bear, it passes on inexorably and remorselessly, destroying everything in its wake, save art and works of the intellect.
This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away.
For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.
(A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and cognitive traits.
Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.
I was taught by teachers, and if it's one thing I have it's a basketball mind and I try to pass it on and pay it forward.
What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.
He passed through her with his soul caressing hers goodbye. And in that final hour he was with her one last time.
It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
When I feel confused or depressed, I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat, 'This, too, shall pass.'
God has a plan for the future and, because He is sovereign, it will come to pass. You can count on it!
Time is a daunting thing; it’s inescapable. Some moments pass unobserved and others stay with us, remaining frozen, lasting a lifetime...
Just pass the work I assign along to somebody else and trust to luck. We call that delegation of responsibility.
I don't need to break the speed limit. But if I'm not passing other vehicles on the interstate, I get a little irritated.
For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.
