Best 176 quotes in «passing quotes» category

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.

Perhaps your fear in passing judgement is greater than mine in receiving it.

Progress is only possible by passing from a state of undifferentiated wholeness to differentiation of parts.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 internet is just a passing fad.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

The receivers are an integral part of the passing game.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Time means little; I never notice its passing.

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.

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

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

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.