Best 176 quotes in «passing quotes» category

Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing.

Sak, pain, love are limited human experiences. and only those who know their own frontiers, those knows the life, the rest is just passing time.

The Bible, however, was not created to be amended and altered with each passing culture.

She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends she was no more than a frequently passing thought.

That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.

Sometimes it's called passing out and sometimes it's just pretending to be asleep

Sometimes we'll only see each other in passing, like ships passing in the night.

So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortall life the leafe, the bud, the flowre

The Beatles are a passing phase, symptoms of the confusion about us.

The British are so incestuous. They pass around partners like they're passing popcorn at a movie.

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct ratio to the swiftness of our passage.

The environment is not just around you, it's passing through you.

The days followed one another patiently. Right back at the beginning of the multiverse they had tried all passing at the same time, and it hadn't worked.

The internet is just a passing fad.

The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor . . . I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days.

The light is no mystery, the mystery is that there is something to keep the light from passing through.

The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.

The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate.

The living is a passing traveler; The dead, a man come home.

The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself.

[The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that dross).

The receivers are an integral part of the passing game.

The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.

There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.

There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow.

There was no more dangerous a time in a nation's life than the passing of a ruler when the succession was in doubt.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist.

There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are passing now in the hope of getting better things.

The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious.

The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow.

The spirit must be felt so intensely that it has power to call others in passing, for it must pass, not stop in the pictures.

This world is not my home, I'm just a passing through.

This is what I have come to know: Our past is never passed and there is no such thing as moving on. But there is this telling and there is such a thing as passing through.

They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway.

Time was not passing...it was turning in a circle.

Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing.

Time means little; I never notice its passing.

Two Irishmen were passing a pub - well, it could happen.

To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.

We can no longer stand for the Security Council passing resolutions and then in effect heaving alongside and taking a vacation. We cannot leave it to the secretary general to go cap in hand.

When times are difficult, I tell myself, 'I'm just passing through.'

We'll be passing tax relief for small business owners and working families across the country.

What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

We pass now quickly from each other's sight; but I know full well that where beyond these passing scenes you shall be, there will be Heaven.

Whatever pressure I feel all comes from me, from within. I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

When I’m taking a picture of Aya Sofia, what counts is the person passing by who stands for life

With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.

With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.

Why does it have to be like this?' I asked bitterly. 'Why does life have to be so short, with all the good things passing quickly. Is it worth living at all?