Best 176 quotes in «passing quotes» category

I couldn't stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day.

I don't want someone coming in and passing judgment on my life.

If you're passing the buck, don't ask for change.

If you snort enough blow, any lane is a passing lane.

I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.

... i didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i was passing through

I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing.

In music I feel most deeply the passing of things.

In high school, every last one of the passing schemes was designed for me.

In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing of one friend or one acquaintance has a profounder effect that that of 100,000 strangers. If there is any metaphorical truth in the Jewish proverb that he who saves one life saves the whole world, then there is equal metaphorical truth in the proposition that when one person dies, the whole world dies with them.

In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.

I saw my bulky person in the windows of the passing storefronts and wondered, when will that man there find himself to be loved?

In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it.

I suspect there will never be a requiem for a dream, simply because it will destroy us before we have the opportunity to mourn it's passing.

I think I work harder on the pitch, I cover more ground and my passing is more accurate.

I think of translations as passing some scholarly smell test: you can read the words of the translation and be reasonably sure of what the words are in the original.

It is the simple hypotheses of which one must be most wary; because these are the ones that have the most chances of passing unnoticed.

Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis?

It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured.

It would be so good to settle down and become part of somewhere again, instead of constantly passing through

I used to pretend that I was just passing through this family on my way to my real one.

In order to deviate successfully, one has to have at least a passing acquaintance with whatever norm one expects to deviate from.

I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by.

Knowing is passing from the false to the true and seeing the Absolute Whole in the part.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.

Learn to be one with who you are in Reality, and the waves of a thousand passing worlds cannot wash you away.

Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything - God alone suffices.

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.

Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.

January has only one thing to be said for it: it is followed by February. Nothing so well becomes its passing.

Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.

Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.

Life is passing you by as you speak, you're on a path and you're all on the same path toward death.

Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through.

(Milosevic's passing) should not keep us from our efforts to provide peace and stability in the Balkans; on the contrary, it should renew them.

Mistress, I have never asked anything of you in my servitude. But now, I beg you this: do not make me keep passing these adolescent sentiments back and forth all night.

Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age.

Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year.

Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive.

Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.

O Lord! You are the guide of those who are passing through the Valley of Bewilderment. If I am a heretic, enlarge my heresy.

One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term 'reform' is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament.

Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.

Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.

Passing competitors always gives you a lift. It probably has a physical effect, too, because you get a surge of adrenaline.

Passing is contagious. There's nothing better than making the pass that gives someone an easy hoop.

Passing out while you try to kill yourself is like failing at failing.

Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.