Best 176 quotes in «passing quotes» category

Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.

Every passing year brings us more past futures.

Every time you are passing the test, you are coming closer to Krishna.

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

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.

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.

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

Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub.

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.

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

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

He's passing the ball like Idi Amin.

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

How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!

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

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

Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion

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

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

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

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

I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

In music I feel most deeply the passing of things.

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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