Quotes with passing

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  • Bud Abbott Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time.
    Bud Abbott
    American comedian and actor (1897 - 1974)
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  • Robert Frost Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Napoleon Hill The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Marcel Proust The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Vilayat Inayat Khan The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return
    Vilayat Inayat Khan
    Teacher of meditation and of the traditions of Sufism (1882 - 1927)
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  • William Shakespeare The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may have in the sworn twelve a thief or two guiltier than him they try.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Paul Auster The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.
    Collected Novels Volume Four (2016) 8
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Iris Murdoch 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.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Bill Gates The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • William Butler Yeats 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.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Samuel Johnson There is nothing so much seduces reason from vigilance as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman in marriage.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bill Simmons There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Jack Kornfield To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.
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  • William Winwood Reade We live between two worlds; we soar in the atmosphere; we creep upon the soil; we have the aspirations of creators and the propensities of quadrupeds. There can be but one explanation of this fact. We are passing from the animal into a higher form, and the drama of this planet is in its second act.
    William Winwood Reade
    British historian (1838 - 1875)
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  • Carl Rowan We must reverse this psychology (of needing guns for home defense). We can do it by passing a law that says anyone found in possession of a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail- period!
    1981 column.
    Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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  • Omar N. Bradley We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
    Omar N. Bradley
    American general (1893 - 1981)
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  • Ben Okri We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing. It was the strangest thing. Her passing away ripped the solidity out of the world.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Bre Pettis What I like on Kickstarter is when I see real innovation and I see people building something new. It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.
    Bre Pettis
    American entrepreneur and video blogger
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