Quotes with passing

  • Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
  • The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
  • Instead of passing blithely over into that Promised Land, flowing almost literally with milk and honey, it may be our destiny to wander a full 40 years or more in the wilderness of doubt and divided sentiments.
  • The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
  • 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 a Constitutional amendment.
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche "Reason" is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Abraham Pais A number of current theoretical explorations will turn out to be passing fancies...
    Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1988) p. 45
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • C. S. Forester A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • Robert Southey All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
    Robert Southey
    British writer (1774 - 1843)
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  • Boris Pasternak Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Gloria Steinem At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m passing the torch. I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty: elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Bobby Jindal Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Adam Clarke Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Julie Burchill Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
    Julie Burchill
    British journalist, writer
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  • Robert Bresson Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.
    Robert Bresson
    French film director (1901 - 1999)
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  • Duke Ellington Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
    Duke Ellington
    American composer and pianist (1899 - 1974)
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  • Barack Obama I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.
    President Obama Misses Anonymity, People-Watching - ABC News website, 11 April 2011
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Anais Nin I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Beatrice Webb If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
    Beatrice Webb
    English sociologist and economist (1858 - 1943)
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  • Bill Parcells If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing.
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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  • Bill Goldberg If you don't want to investigate what you're passing judgment on, then it's your fault. And I believe that if people investigate Goldberg as a human being, I'm not such a bad guy.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Nancy Astor In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
    Nancy Astor
    First woman Member of Parliament (1879 - 1964)
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  • Francis Bacon In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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