Quotes of: Passing Keyword

It was Sunday morning, and old people passed me like sad grey waves on their way to church.

The Vet's Daughter

What, to many, passes for thought, is usually a compound of prejudice, desire, and whim.

What Shall We Defend?: Essays And Addresses

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.

Walden

These things hath Fate brought to pass, and we be but Fate's whipping-tops bandied what way she will.

The Worm Ouroboros

Death never pierces the heart so much as when it takes someone we love; cleaving the heart they held with their passing.

Walking Wolf Road

Time is a player. Time is part of today, not simply a measure of its passing.

The World and Other Places: Stories

Time was spinning numerous threads for its tapestry, some to be woven together, some to entangle or fray, others merely to perish and pass away.

Weatherwitch

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs ...

Theodore White

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Life is fleeting," Samuel said. "A short leap, in the eye of the Eternal, from dust to dust. May you pass it together.

Slave

The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.

Henry Miller

I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.

Naguib Mahfouz

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

Oliver Goldsmith

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

Pierre Bayle

My mother passed away of complications of dementia. As you get older, it really makes you realize how many people are touched by this disease.

Paul Coffey

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

Peter Conrad

True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.

Pierre Corneille

Basketball is a simple game. Your goal is penetration, get the ball close to the basket, and there are three ways to do that. Pass, dribble and offensive rebound.

Phil Jackson

My mind skidded round a very short track and passed the finish line in a matter of seconds without any sensible conclusion.

Petra Kidd

Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?

Pele

Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.

P. J. O'Rourke