Best 176 quotes in «passing quotes» category

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 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 receivers are an integral part of the passing game.

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 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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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 means little; I never notice its passing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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?

Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.

With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.

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

You don't create jobs by passing bills, you create jobs by cutting taxes.

You better...buckle uh down and then tighten up to stop this passing game

You can't get to wonderful without passing through alright.

...he still thought I was accusing him or calling him to account. He said, "People *do* grow. You may not think much of *me*, but my children will be great!" I said , "They will be black and blind or passing for white and self-blinded. Those are the only choices.

You have had many and great sadnesses, which passed. And you say that even this passing was hard for you and put you out of sorts. But, please, consider whether these great sadnesses have not rather gone right through the center of yourself? Whether much in you has not altered, whether you have not somewhere, at some point of your being, undergone a change when you were sad?

Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.

All through dinner Arturo and I held hands under the table like a couple of kids, and that made the dinner quite wonderful, even though Mrs. Fletcher kept staring at Olivia as though committing her to memory. It got so bad that Olivia turned to her husband and said: "Has it happened at last, Gerald? Have I become a curiosity?

A whole Gothic world had come to grief...there was now no armour glittering through the forest glades, no embroidered feet on the green sward; the cream and dappled unicorns had fled...

Decide be a success; decide to be great, decide to be above average, decide to do the very best of you. Do you know who a P.O.O.R person is? P.O.O.R people are those who are “Passing On Opportunities Repeatedly”!

Youth is an arithmetical statement of passing interest, each hour eats it up.

Becoming more and more silent with every passing day and I don't know whether it's good or bad.

Clocks were invented to warn us. Tick (time is passing). Tock (time has passed).