Quotes with passes

  • Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
  • I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, ''I will tell you a story,'' and then he passes the hat.
  • Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.
  • We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.
  • They had no game plan for losing.... Because when you can't win a game, you need to run the clock, don't let it stop, don't throw passes incomplete... get the game over with, get on the bus and go home.
  • An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
  • Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Marilyn Monroe It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet drink and botanical medicines.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Hitopadesa When the leader passes over all alike, not making a distinction, then the endeavors of those who are capable of exertion are entirely lost.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • William Booth A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.
    William Booth
    English Methodist preacher (1829 - 1912)
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  • Thomas Mann An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Albert Einstein An hour sitting with a pretty girl passes like a minute, but a minute sitting on a hot stove seems like an hour. That's relativity.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bret Harte And ever since then, when the clock strikes two, She walks unbidden from room to room, And the air is filled that she passes through With a subtle, sad perfume. The delicate odor of mignonette, The ghost of a dead and gone bouquet, Is all that tells of her story — yet Could she think of a sweeter way?
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Auguste Comte Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
    Auguste Comte
    French philosopher (1798 - 1857)
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  • Arthur Chapman Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Ingmar Bergman Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
    Ingmar Bergman
    Swedish stage and film director (1918 - 2007)
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  • Bill Shankly Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
    Bill Shankly
    Scottish football player and manager (1913 - )
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  • Baruch Spinoza Hatred which is entirely conquered by love passes into love, and love on that account is greater than if it had not been preceded by hatred.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Andy Rooney I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Robertson Davies I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, ''I will tell you a story,'' and then he passes the hat.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Barry Ritholtz If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Samuel Johnson In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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