Top 100 Passing The Time Quotes

#1. It's strange how in childhood it feels like tomorrow won't come until the end of forever, but in adulthood it feels like the end of forever could come tomorrow.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#2. One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.

Brian Tracy

Passing The Time Quotes #5712
#3. The Republicans, with their crazed Reagan fixation, are a last-gasp party, living posthumously, fighting battles on sex, race, immigration and public education long ago won by the other side. They're trying to roll back the clock, but time is passing them by.

Maureen Dowd

Passing The Time Quotes #5774
#4. The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.

Paul Auster

Passing The Time Quotes #8083
#5. With no sense of the passing of time, they held each other and lost themselves in the opening, unmasking tenderness that always comes after a satisfactory quarrel.

William Maxwell

Passing The Time Quotes #32909
#6. The people to become enlightened in Atlantis lit the "flame of enlightenment" on earth for the first time. The members of the various mystery schools have kept the flame alive by passing on the secret techniques for attaining enlightenment from the time of Atlantis to our present day.

Frederick Lenz

Passing The Time Quotes #42782
#7. In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture - it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.

Jamaica Kincaid

Passing The Time Quotes #48672
#8. Time does not exist, except in the passing of days.

Norman Revill

Passing The Time Quotes #54412
#9. The harsh fact of the matter is when you're passing legislation that will cover 300 million American people in different ways, it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.

John Dingell

Passing The Time Quotes #74436
#10. It's lost time that matters - the time between time - the moments when you forget time and life just happens.

Chloe Thurlow

Passing The Time Quotes #74491
#11. I used to worry about you, Zoyd, but I see I can rest easy now the Vaseline of youth has been cleared from your life's lens by the mild detergent solution of time, in its passing. . .

Thomas Pynchon

Passing The Time Quotes #77600
#12. Time as hunger.
Time passing and gazing.
Time as perseverance.
Mountain time.
Time as paper folded to look like a mountain.
Time compared to the wild fantastic silence of stars.

Anne Carson

Passing The Time Quotes #84014
#13. The ideal is that your faith not be rigid and unpliable, but instead that it is capable of being stretched and remolded over time, and that your theological and spiritual life grows deeper and more mature with the passing years.

Adam Hamilton

Passing The Time Quotes #108709
#14. The passing time is painful. I have lost the art of moving simply, naturally, within it. I am swept back against its flow. Angry, vindictive, it pierces me all the time, all the time with its spikes.

David Grossman

Passing The Time Quotes #119376
#15. At the end of the day
all we ever need is
something
that helped
pass the time
and something
that keeps time from passing.

Sanober Khan

Passing The Time Quotes #119440
#16. Manassa naught,
a padded white envelope
with no return address,
landlocked and antiseptic,
exploited like a gas station.
Beauty
passes through in the briefest of cameos.

Brian D'Ambrosio

Passing The Time Quotes #124302
#17. Swift flies our time on pinions fleet, Like vapours on the breeze; The transient bliss we now call sweet, The passing moments seize. The gilded joy, the present hour, Soon wing themselves away; Departing like the fading flower That pleas'd us Yesterday.

William Muir

Passing The Time Quotes #128693
#18. Fiction is only a set of colors, however beautiful, passing over the landscape for a time - the spirit, perhaps, but not the substance.

Bill Bonanno

Passing The Time Quotes #136027
#19. The Senate is extremely slow: They have enormous difficulty passing the bills that even get through the House. That's the reality that I've recognized in my two years: that it takes time to change the world.

Kirsten Gillibrand

Passing The Time Quotes #140936
#20. Some mornings ... I sit at the kitchen table shaking salt into the hairs on my arm, and a feeling shoves up in me: it's finished. Everything went past without me.

Jennifer Egan

Passing The Time Quotes #141053
#21. Although we try to control it in a million different ways, the only things you can ever really do to time are enjoy it, or waste it. That's it.

A.J. Compton

Passing The Time Quotes #142019
#22. People who know no self-restraint lead stormy and disordered lives, passing their time in a state of fear commensurate with the injuries they do to others, never able to relax.

Seneca.

Passing The Time Quotes #155161
#23. When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels like you're breathing in the clouds and the sky, and your heart is the rain and the thunder.

Ruth Ozeki

Passing The Time Quotes #155498
#24. As the days dwindled towards the end of the week I knew only one thing: I couldn't return to our old life.

Haroon had taken Honour and Al with him,

Ruth Ahmed

Passing The Time Quotes #157032
#25. We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Passing The Time Quotes #157692
#26. Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains that I have not seen, of all the interesting people I have not met.

Anais Nin

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#27. Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.

Martin Heidegger

Passing The Time Quotes #162337
#28. the moon is just another kind of clock

Kelli Russell Agodon

Passing The Time Quotes #177656
#29. I leaned forward and kissed him. And again. As if I were passing him all those silent words I cound not say, the ones that explained my biggest secret: that I might not have OI but I knew how he (Adam) felt. That I was breaking apart, too, all the time.-Amelia

Jodi Picoult

Passing The Time Quotes #194166
#30. The doctrine of the importance of hoards for stabilizing the objective exchange-value of money has gradually lost its adherents with the passing of time. Nowadays its supporters are few.

Ludwig Von Mises

Passing The Time Quotes #199820
#31. My entire notion of friendship altered when I depended on someone for more than just the pleasant passing of time.

Courtney Milan

Passing The Time Quotes #200159
#32. An important memory is like a gravitational field
the mind is compelled to return to it again and again. It is like a moon; it lives in light and shadow.

Rikki Ducornet

Passing The Time Quotes #205475
#33. The dusty tombs of long-dead exorcist priests lay in the alcoves below, surmounted by stone effigies, the features eroded by the passing of time and the reverent caresses of their grateful parishioners, a reminder, she knew all too well, of the brevity of life.

Sarah Ash

Passing The Time Quotes #214042
#34. the clock is ticking

Chinua Achebe

Passing The Time Quotes #220335
#35. We all have the same amount of time allotted to us each week: 10,080 minutes. No more, no less. We have the responsibility to choose how we spend those minutes. In reality, every passing minute is a moment we'll never get back. Without question, time is our most precious and elusive commodity.

Rodney Gage

Passing The Time Quotes #225926
#36. 'Downton Abbey' is a pageant, a cavalcade of a time when being born right is the first and most irrevocable career move, and in which an older order - whose passing 'Downton's' creator, Julian Fellowes, clearly mourns - is submerging in icy seas as surely as a grand and extravagant ocean liner.

Steve Erickson

Passing The Time Quotes #228027
#37. History, like memories themselves, tended to become distorted with the passing of time, or worse, corrupted with the agendas of those writing it.

Terry Goodkind

Passing The Time Quotes #230712
#38. I have liv'd long enough for others, like the Dog in the Wheel, and it is now the Season to begin for myself: I cannot change that Thing call'd Time, but I can alter its Posture and, as Boys do turn a looking-glass against the Sunne, so I will dazzle you all.

Peter Ackroyd

Passing The Time Quotes #239937
#39. It's the most unhappy people who want to stay alive, because they think they haven't done everything they want to do. They think they haven't had enough time. They feel they've been shortchanged.

Carol Rifka Brunt

Passing The Time Quotes #240356
#40. If you can hear time passing it makes the day last longer. I've come to appreciate a long day.

Truman Capote

Passing The Time Quotes #247987
#41. She knew that this day, this feeling, couldn't last forever. Everything passed; that was partly why it was so beautiful. Things would get difficult again. But that was okay too.
The bravery was in moving forward, no matter what.

Lauren Oliver

Passing The Time Quotes #250297
#42. The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.

Orson Scott Card

Passing The Time Quotes #250909
#43. I'm laid back, I take my time, get the job done. Lebron is high flying, dunking, passing the ball well. He's getting the job done, too. But we're different.

Carmelo Anthony

Passing The Time Quotes #252745
#44. The soul of an individual; your soul and my soul, is that part of us that is immortal. Your personality is that part of you that was born into time, that matures in time, or at least grows older in time and then decays and passes away.

Gary Zukav

Passing The Time Quotes #264024
#45. The President sucked in his breath sharply. He also sucked in a big fly that happened to be passing at the time. He choked.

Roald Dahl

Passing The Time Quotes #284151
#46. Love and laughter and fucking make one's life better. Worship is just the passing of time.

James Frey

Passing The Time Quotes #295346
#47. In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

Nancy Astor

Passing The Time Quotes #296047
#48. Because we believe that one moment is more or less like the next, we lose touch with the essential urgency of the present, the fact that each passing moment is the one moment for the practice of freedom.

Robert Grudin

Passing The Time Quotes #298327
#49. She began to feel that she had not yet gone through all the changes of opinion and sentiment, which the progress of time and variation of circumstances occasion in this world of changes.

Jane Austen

Passing The Time Quotes #298350
#50. I would say, however, that romantic sentiment is a keen and pathetic sense of time, a few hours of amorous delight, the idea that everything passes away; a deeper sentiment for autumn, for twilight, for the passing nature of our own lives.

Jorge Luis Borges

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#51. Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute, but now he obsessed over each one, this minute, the next minute, the one following, all of which were different terms for the same illusion.

Anthony Marra

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#52. I have been all men known to history , Wondering at the world and at time passing; I have seen evil , and the light blessing Innocent love under a spring sky .

R.S. Thomas

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#53. Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.

Frances Wright

Passing The Time Quotes #327463
#54. I know now that I have to speak from eternity into time, from the lasting joy into the passing realities of our short existence in this world, from the house of love into the houses of fear, from God's abode into the dwellings of human beings. I

Henri J.M. Nouwen

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#55. Many years after animating Ariel, I continue to draw her, doodling as I talk on the phone, absent-mindedly passing time in a sketchbook. She has become a part of me and yet now belongs to the world and generations to come.

Glen Keane

Passing The Time Quotes #332632
#56. Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

Earl Nightingale

Passing The Time Quotes #332757
#57. Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes.

Jeanne Moreau

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#58. The passing of time carried inevitability and with that would come loss.

Elizabeth Hunter

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#59. Time slips. Days pass. Years fade. Life ends. And what we came to do on earth must be done while there is time!

Milan Jed

Passing The Time Quotes #348209
#60. In space there are no seasons, and this is as true of the ships that cross the distances between humanity's far-flung homes. But we measure our seasons anyway: by a smile, a silence, a song.

Yoon Ha Lee

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

Mason Cooley

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#62. You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.

Ira Sachs

Passing The Time Quotes #385020
#63. Ah, how quickly the hands on the clock circle toward the future we thought was far away! And how soon we become our mothers.

Peggy Toney Horton

Passing The Time Quotes #385192
#64. And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer. The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too needed ten, then thirty, then a full minute - like shadows lengthening at dusk. Someday, I suppose, the shadows will be swallowed up in darkness.

Haruki Murakami

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#65. This comes with my/our deepest sympathy, and the hope that the dear memories of your loved one and the passing of time will ease your sorrow.

Margaret Jones

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#66. She could've stared into those eyes for a thousand years and never noticed the time passing by.

Ilona Andrews

Passing The Time Quotes #395004
#67. Time to improve is limited. The clock is always on and doesn't care if you don't feel like it. Someone else does and they're passing you by.

William James Moore

Passing The Time Quotes #396589
#68. As a designer, you are flattered to see anyone in one of your designs, whether it's on a red carpet or passing by you in the market. It's this wonderful little high every time.

Lauren Conrad

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#69. Most often we forget to live our lives by being too busy passing the time.

Debasish Mridha

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#70. Time is not measured by the passing of yaers but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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#71. One of the biggest disadvantages of being grown up is seeing the time rush by faster.

Pawan Mishra

Passing The Time Quotes #404620
#72. Save your shaming for the girl, Doctor. If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago." He turned and started wading into the swamp. "Time is passing. I, for one, have no intention of remaining here for your betrayer to bring back the soldiers and their guns.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Passing The Time Quotes #413878
#73. Time is passing, ... We have to look at the reality of the situation and ... redouble our efforts and get on with it.

Colin Powell

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#74. Time is mutable! Time changes! Take your time, but, as much as possible; don't forget to take all the chances in your life time!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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#75. That's mostly what the Internet is, just passing the time. But unfortunately you are dealing with words that can have meaning.

Tom Wolfe

Passing The Time Quotes #431071
#76. Oh life to live, life already lived,
time that comes back in a swell of sea,
time that recedes without turning its head,
the past is not past, it is still passing by,
flowing silently into the next vanishing moment

Octavio Paz

Passing The Time Quotes #431111
#77. And a final, anxious part - an ever-growing part - was occupied with the color of the fall sky, the leaves on the ground, the sense that time was passing without being replaced, that it was running out and spooling to the end.

Maggie Stiefvater

Passing The Time Quotes #446167
#78. I sat up in the strange bed fearing it had been a dream, afraid I would never see her again. Not because I wanted anything from her, only her presence. The disappearance of the presence of beauty is the most despairing of events on this time-wheel of ours that rolls onward towards death.

Roman Payne

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#79. Because time does the job, dynamite can't touch. (Samuel Hamilton)

John Steinbeck

Passing The Time Quotes #452876
#80. This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity.

Ann Voskamp

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#81. Passing time isn't a steady thing. People try to measure it, but some days seem to have years packed into them, and others pass in the blink of an eye. Some days matter, and others don't.

Blue Balliett

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#82. Bystanders wandered in and out of the merchant's stall, passing the time, talking of dreams they might purchase. Workers and slaves stooped from labor asked timidly for dreams of wine and ease. Women asked for dreams of love, and men for dreams of women.

David Berlinski

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#83. For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex offenses and requiring prisoners to serve more time.

Mel Carnahan

Passing The Time Quotes #468529
#84. It is amazing how much the little hiccups of misfortune tag ones life with their passing.
- the seashel book of time

Rusty A. Biesele

Passing The Time Quotes #470412
#85. The worst way to read, he said, is with the thought that you do not have enough time. The only way to read is in the knowledge that there is an infinite amount of time stretching ahead, and that if one wishes to taste only afew sentences per day one is free to do so.

Gabriel Josipovici

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#86. I think men spend so much time passing for being men. There's a sense among many writers of color that the most invisible figure that was sitting between all of us was the nerd. But it was the thing we weren't saying, that people were afraid to say, like, "Yo, what we do is nerdy by definition."

Junot Diaz

Passing The Time Quotes #486209
#87. A new day is here! yesterday is gone! tomorrow is preparing to come! but why is today here?

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Passing The Time Quotes #487108
#88. Life is not without pain, but life concerns itself with how we handle that pain, or joy, or confusion or triumph. Life is more than time passing before death, it is the sum and total of all we make of it.

Michael A. Stackpole

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#89. I stood before her asserting my age, but in truth not knowing where the years had gone or how they had led up to this moment.

David Dabydeen

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#90. There's more to life than passing exams, and paper qualifications can only take you so far. A lot depends on luck, and on being in the right place at the right time, which was certainly true in my case.

Terry Wogan

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#91. The proper, wise balancing
of one's whole life may depend upon the
feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

Arnold Bennett

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#92. Despite all expectations, the time of my last campaign and of my passing is near. I wish to die at home. Let not my end disarm you, and on no account weep for me, lest the enemy be warned of my death.

Genghis Khan

Passing The Time Quotes #527951
#93. Only time can heal wounds as deep as that - a lot of time - and all you can really do is place yourself in its hands and try to consider the passing of each day a victory.

Ryu Murakami

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#94. Time, the ultimate grandmaster that could never be checkmated. There was no way out of its distended belly.

Rohinton Mistry

Passing The Time Quotes #537452
#95. 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.

Terry Pratchett

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#96. Now I've a hope that will surely endure after the passing of time. I have a future in heaven for sure; there in those mansions sublime. And it's because of that wonderful day when at the cross I believed. Riches eternal and blessings supernal from His precious hand I received

John W. Peterson

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#97. The twins too, they've never cared a hoot what they looked like. They spent so much time staring at each other's faces before they were born they can go the rest of their lives passing up mirrors without a glance.

Barbara Kingsolver

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

Radhanath Swami

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#99. I should like to freeze in time all those I do love, keep them somehow safe from the ravages of the passing years ... Rather like flowers pressed between the pages of a book!

Sharon Kay Penman

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#100. He had had a lonely life and a lonely death. But it had been the kind of loneliness that spends itself in living amongst people, and in passing the time that way not unpleasantly. Major Palgrave might have been a lonely man, he had also been quite a cheerful one.

Agatha Christie

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