Top 94 Passing You By Quotes
#1. If you are not moving forward, the world is passing you by.
John C. Maxwell
#2. 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
#3. You staying home all alone on New Year's Eve? Unthinkable. Take my advice ... the countdown should be shared with someone, or it's just another set of numbers passing you by.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#4. Life is passing you by as you speak, you're on a path and you're all on the same path toward death.
Emily Haines
#5. But while you're sitting around pining and waiting and wondering and hoping that this perfect love happens, lots of guys and lots of dates and lots of kisses are passing you by.
Lauren Morrill
#6. America has been in existence for 150 years and this is the level she has reached. We have existed not quite 42 years and in another seven years we will be on the same level as America. When we catch you up, in passing you by, we will wave to you.
Nikita Khrushchev
#7. If you feel stuck in your life, like it's passing you by, like there's something way better for you somewhere out there and you're missing it, try this - try throwing yourself into the small things and repeating to yourself: This is where I start.
Rob Bell
#8. You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.
Karin Slaughter
#9. Life keep passing you by as you grow old But what you been trought stays no matter how much you grow with the years that what make you who you are
D.L. Colon
#10. You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow in your arms.
Neil A. Maxwell
#11. I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.
Brian May
#12. I thought again how you could never really know what you were seeing with just a glance, in motion, passing by. Good or bad, right or wrong. There was always so much more.
Sarah Dessen
#13. If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and who is not.
Wilma Mankiller
#14. There seems to be such a laziness in - and I hate to use this phrase - the modern world. Everything is pumped out so quickly so that you can read it while passing by, like billboards or those flashcards before movie shows.
Chris Ware
#15. We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
Irvin D. Yalom
#16. Strike is always a form of direct action. With the strike, too, you are not asking government to make things easier for you by passing legislation, you are taking a direct action against the employer.
Howard Zinn
#17. Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me
Pink Floyd
#18. Start from here, now is all you have, there will never be a better place or time and by tomorrow you would have lost more time.
Malti Bhojwani
#19. Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
Jaclyn Smith
#20. You make people interested in you by keeping secrets, not by passing them out like candy at Halloween.
Bryn Greenwood
#21. Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer, and clearer still. The image is passing through you in a physiological way, into your brain, into your memory - where it stays - it's transmitted by your hands.
Martin Gayford
#22. You all know we are only passing by. We only walk over these stones a few times, our boats float a little while and then they have to sink. The water is a dark flower and a fisherman is a bee in the heart of her.
Annie Proulx
#23. I started passing out the schematics and the code listings for the computer, telling everyone here it is. It's small, it's simple, it's inexpensive: Build your own. No idea to start a company. Steve Jobs came by later and say, you know, people are interested. Why don't we start a company?
Steve Wozniak
#24. It's so weird how life is so full of moving around
people coming and going, people passing by each other all day long. You never know which person's going to steal your heart. You never know which is going to settle your soul. All you can do is look. And hope. And believe.
Natalie Lloyd
#25. (By the way: her mom is Athena, the goddess of wisdom. My dad is Poseidon. We're Greek demigods. Just thought I should mention that, you know, in passing.)
Rick Riordan
#26. Sasuke: Snakes can sense things through temperature, and they can also do it with their sense of smell by passing the smell in the mouth.
Itachi: You've learnt a lot ... Dr. Snakes
Masashi Kishimoto
#27. , living so close to Nature that everything you do is determined by her and each passing minute is felt rather than made use of.
Ahdaf Soueif
#28. And how about doing the job we hired you gentlemen and ladies for? Start doing it by reading the legislation you pass. If you don't know what it says, don't vote for it.
Kenneth Eade
#29. You don't necessarily meet a lot of people in this world. Not when you let yourself get distracted by music and the passing of hours.
Michael Cunningham
#30. Rebecca let out a gusty sigh. "Pregnant, I tell you. I'm definitely getting pregnant." Her mother responded by passing over the tearful little guy. Not a bad idea, Jane decided. Birth control by baby brother
Christie Ridgway
#31. Long walks force a certain meditative awareness. You're not moving so fast that you miss the world's details passing by - in fact, you can stop to inspect something that might catch your eye.
John Battelle
#32. For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
Carson McCullers
#33. And challenging your neighborhood to a round of competitive outdoor decorating. Because you're not really celebrating the birth of Jesus unless your house can be spotted by passing aircraft.
Molly Harper
#34. Life may dawdle along in minutes but don't be deceived, for it will sprint by in years before you even notice.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#35. You can never tell what type of impact you may make on another's life by your actions or lack of action. Some times just with a smile on the street to a passing stranger can make a difference we could never imagine.
Ed Foreman
#36. I was just passing by. Saw the commotion. Figured you were involved.
Darynda Jones
#37. Theology is just what you really think about God, and if you're going to do that, you'd better use your mind and not just let it be a receptacle - a catch-all for whatever beliefs happen to be passing by.
Dallas Willard
#38. Yo! Cam!" Beer Guy jumped off the porch and jogged down the sidewalk, passing me a quick look. "What you up to, man?"
Saved by the frat boy.
Cam's gaze didn't veer from me, but his grin started to slip. "Nothing, Kevin, just trying to have a conversation.
J. Lynn
#39. What are you doing out there?" Lily hissed.
"Would you believe me if I said I was just passing by?"
She groaned. "You are a terrible liar, Calder White.
Anne Greenwood Brown
#40. The heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility. You can only acquire right knowledge when you have learnt to esteem it. Man has certainly the right to turn his eyes to the light, but he must first acquire this right.
Rudolf Steiner
#41. It's not time that is passing by after all, it's you and I
Karan Bajaj
#42. People get strange about whether you've written your own songs, which seems really stupid considering that, especially in Country Music, it's about oral tradition and passing things on and the songs weren't meant to be played by one person and then forgotten.
Neko Case
#43. You have got to own your days and live them, each one of them, every one of them, or else the years go by and none of them belong to you.
Herb Gardner
#44. All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.
Voltaire
#45. To pass through addiction is to come to terms with not being where you are. More and more people are entering the modern world by passing through addiction.
Michael W. Clune
#46. Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right - a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates.
Sue Grafton
#47. Your destiny lies in your hands and can be molded with each passing day by the choices you make
Sunday Adelaja
#48. Dont look to the sky for fireworks when you can watch them light up in the eyes of all the people passing by.
Tyler Kent
#49. His football does not seem to suffer by all of this going on around him. You look at his passing and he makes it look so simple. When he passes the ball, it always seems to go where he wants it to go. That sounds simple, but believe me, it is not.
(on David Beckham)
Graham Taylor
#50. Passing from the tyranny of Charles I to the tyranny of Cromwell is like taking a turn in a revolving door; the exertion merely puts you back where you started. If every jobholder in Washington were driven into the Potomac tonight, their places would be taken tomorrow by others precisely like them.
Albert Jay Nock
#51. Every single day I want you to be happy and full of joy, just like you make me happy by just passing through my mind.
Donna White
#52. I've been aware of the time passing by they say in the end it's the wink of an eye and when the morning light comes streaming in you'll get up and do it again
Jackson Browne
#53. You don't create jobs by passing bills, you create jobs by cutting taxes.
Carly Fiorina
#54. In passing, I firmly believe that research should be offset by a certain amount of teaching, if only as a change from the agony of research. The trouble, however, I freely admit, is that in practice you get either no teaching, or else far too much.
John Edensor Littlewood
#55. 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
#56. Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by.
Rich Mullins
#57. Wherever you may go; Life is a beautiful thing. Life is like a passing season. It comes and go. Whatever may come, it's better to enjoy the changing seasons.
Diana Rose Morcilla
#58. It isn't time that's passing by, it is you and I. It
Ruskin Bond
#59. You could feel hurt and rejected right now but you must know that both pain and rejection are not here to stay. They just passing by and they'll never take away the burning fire that resides in you called desire.
Euginia Herlihy
#60. Married, you're basically part of the herd, and that makes life easier in a lot of ways in terms of social support. But if you're not by nature a herd animal, you start to feel like you're passing.
Mary Gaitskill
#61. When she was in Djibouti and I was in Aden, and I used to go and see her for twenty-four hours, she managed to multiply the misunderstandings between us until there were exactly sixty minutes before I had to leave; sixty minutes, just long enough to make you feel the seconds passing one by one.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#62. Can you train yourself to love the right man? Of course you can. The problem is forgetting about the wrong man, the one passing by who came in a door that was left open without asking permission.
Paulo Coelho
#63. Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their head, The wind is passing by.
Christina Rossetti
#64. Technique is not being able to juggle a ball 1000 times. Anyone can do that by practicing. Then you can work in the circus. Technique is passing the ball with one touch, with the right speed, at the right foot of your team mate.
Johan Cruijff
#65. By passing your GCSEs you prove that you're not an idiot ... But by passing your A levels you prove that you're smart
Ben Mitchell
#67. I remember
The way you used to hold me.
I remember
The thrill we used to share.
We seem to be
Strangers passing by now.
Tell me, did you forget how
We once cared?
Alexandra Monir
#68. Jason had joked that dust bunnies under the bed were pets he didn't mind keeping: they never whined for food and didn't require a litter box. They also didn't wake you up at night by barking at passing raccoons.
Erik Bundy
#69. 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
#70. And you must not worry about me. You must follow your dreams. You have your life ahead of you. I am just a wanderer passing by.
Avijeet Das
#71. Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives.
Gerald Durrell
#72. It is hard to open yourself to someone who might really love you. I kept trying to drive Ken away and he kept passing the test by staying.
Erica Jong
#73. Are you a King? Are you an Emperor? Can you stop the days passing by? If you cannot, you are nothing!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#74. I believe that by releasing "passing interest/low keepsake-value literature" from the burden of physicality, you are actually releasing the words from their worst liability: the price and inconvenience of actual bookness.
John Hodgman
#75. If time waits for no one then let me show you how it does, by smash your watch.
Srinivas Shenoy
#76. Have you ever really held the hand of someone you love? Not just in passing, a loose link between you - but truly clasped, with the pulses of your wrists beating together and your fingers mapping the knuckles and nails like a cartographer learning a country by heart?
Jodi Picoult
#77. Through sheer volume of passing days you will travel a great distance in your lifetime. Imagine where you might stand if your footsteps steered toward a single goal.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#78. Mother loved the wind. When I was growing up, she would recite this poem to me. Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I, But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by. So it is with God.
Alice Steinbach
#79. When the whistling-thrush released
A deep sweet secret on the trembling air;
Blackbird on the wing, bird of the forest shadows,
Black rose in the long ago summer,
This was your song:
It isn't time that's passing by,
It is you and I.
Ruskin Bond
#80. Deep within yourself, listen to your conscience which calls you to be pure ... a home is not warmed by the fire of pleasure which burns quickly like a pile of withered grass. Passing encounters are only a caricature of love; they injure hearts and mock God's plan.
Pope John Paul II
#81. Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through. Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by.
Christina Rossetti
#82. When you find the way/ others will find you./ Passing by on the road/ they will be drawn to your door./ The way that cannot be heard/ will be echoed in your voice./ The way that cannot be seen/ will be reflected in your eyes.
Laozi
#83. Jack is somewhere in this city, right now.
The thought was like passing by a house where someone was grilling in the back yard. You could smell it, but it wasn't yours, and you couldn't just barge into their home and demand a burger, no matter how your mouth watered.
Jane Seville
#84. You can't get from A to Z by passing up B.
Nick Saban
#85. My dad had told me that if you stayed out after nine and you were a girl it meant that you wanted to have sex with whoever was passing by. He told me that if I got raped after nine o'clock the courts would probably say I deserved it.
Heather O'Neill
#86. There's something beautiful and very circular about passing by something that was important to the person you loved, or touching something that once meant something to him - that brings me some peace.
Nate Berkus
#87. The clouds are passing by slowly as the moon appears. Like the clouds, there are certain things which will disappear with the passing of time. And when it happens, you'll realize that it wasn't any big deal.
Jin Sun Mi
#88. It's easy to become very self-critical when you're an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.
Keanu Reeves
#89. Time does stop sometimes, you see everyone passing by, following their destiny and the destination it is leading, and you conclude its better where you are then moving again ... often history repeats itself before it changes ...
Prashant
#90. I don't love CDs more than anything else, but I was just playing around with the idea that they could be something you're momentarily keeping hold of as everything is passing by.
Alexis Taylor
#91. I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that.
Michael Caine
#92. So much affirmation ends up sounding like a murder of crows passing overhead and it is easy to be afraid of murder-by-crow-- though sometimes you have to start flapping your arms and follow them.
Lucia Perillo
#93. What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is it the only value passing time as comfortably as possible?
John Green
#94. I know whether of not your statement is true, and you know that I know whether or not it is true, because it is about me. But do you know that your statement is true? This is what I mean by passing judgment.
Daniel Suelo
