Best 176 quotes in «passing quotes» category

feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal

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.

For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing.

From a constitutional point of view George W. Bush passing through the Patriot Act is no worse than Obama renewing it.

For order represents our fear and nervousness. We create ordered interiors as a protest over the passing of things, to define our mortal lives against the void of time.

Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub.

Here in Florida the seasons move in and out like nuns in soft clothing, making no rustle in their passing.

Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.

Have you ever thought about it, about simply leaving? Really, truly thought about it with the intent to follow through and not as a dream or a passing fancy?

He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us. I would never know from here, though. And time was passing. Crucial minutes and seconds, each one capable of changing everything.

Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards.

He's passing the ball like Idi Amin.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.

Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion.

How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!

How do you feel?" he asked him. "Like a military academy," said Arthur. "Bits of me keep on passing out.

How often is the passing of one storm only a prelude to another.

I am evergreen, and with every passing day, I am becoming younger.

Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion

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

I am the life just passing through. I'm what remains and so are you.

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

... 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

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

I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

In music I feel most deeply the passing of things.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.