Quotes About Passages Of Time

#1. Winds sweep the passages of time
Forever more
Taking, leaving
Memories.

Tyler Colins

#2. What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people.

Samuel Johnson

#3. This is the difference between U.S. Latina/o letters and Latina/o Letters from Latin America: In the United States, writing is a business. In Latin America, writing is life and death.

Daniel Pena

#4. 'Words and Music' on Radio 3 is always a treat. Actors read passages of poetry and prose interspersed with music, and nobody tells you what it is. Later you can look it up online, but at the time you can't cheat.

Claire Tomalin

#5. You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

Al Stewart

#6. The clock changed to 4:47. Passages in time. He had always wondered if it was possible to measure an interval, and here it was, two minutes had elapsed before his very eyes. One hundred and twenty seconds during which nothing had happened.

Ken Puddicombe

#7. Time would fail me were I to try to lay before you in order all the passages in the Holy Scriptures which relate to the efficacy of baptism or to explain the mysterious doctrine of that second birth which though it is our second is yet our first in Christ.

St. Jerome

#8. At that time I would read passages of Father's books or a newspaper article that I was certain he had read because I wanted to follow a trail he had taken.

Hisham Matar

#9. Life is a symphony composed by God, played by us with preludes, themes, movements, passages ... and wrong notes, so many wrong notes. Heaven is where we get to hear the music played perfectly for the first time.

Tiffany Reisz

#10. Time does not give one much leeway: it thrusts us forward from behind, blows us through the narrow tunnel of the present into the future. But space is broad, teeming with possibilities, positions, intersections, passages, detours, U-turns, dead-ends, one-way streets. Too many possibilities, indeed.

Susan Sontag

#11. By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart.

Jay Parini

#12. The moral high ground to which I aspired had turned into a slippery slope.

Alfred Alcorn

#13. Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy.

Samuel Johnson

#14. I learned that time manages the most painful partings for us. One has only to set the date, buy the ticket, and let the earth, sun, and moon make their passages through the sky, until inexorable time carries us with it to the moment of parting.

Jill Ker Conway

#15. The poem of the world is uninterrupted, but few are the ears that hear it.

Henry David Thoreau

#16. Fiction is overrated, Fly. We've discussed this. In the time it takes those novelist fuckers to contemplate a few poetic passages, a thousand kids die from malnutrition. Immediacy, man, that's what counts.

Rawi Hage

#17. Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.

Nadine Gordimer

#18. I will not look upon the quickening sun, But straight her beauty to my sense shall run; The air shall note her soft, the fire most pure; Water suggest her clear, and the earth sure; Time shall not lose our passages.

John Donne

#19. I couldn't help but think about Election Day one year before and everything that had happened since. Last Election Day, not only had the country reelected the first president who had stood for marriage equality, but we'd also won ballot fights on marriage in four

Marc Solomon

#20. The journey is not linear, it is always back and forth, denying the calendar, the wrinkles and lines of the body.

Jeanette Winterson

#21. Reflections ... passages in time..sometimes, the only things that make sense..the only peace I find..is found somewhere, unwritten..in between the lines.

Victoria June

#22. Hundreds of passages point to a time of judgment for every person who has ever lived - none will escape. If you took all the references to judgment out of the Bible, you would have little Bible left.

Billy Graham

#23. What we call coincidences, accidental and remarkable events occurring at the same time, are actually circumstances and events that have come into your life to serve a purpose is to benefit you.

Chris Prentiss

#24. If you want nice, baby, play with your fucking dog. When you're ready to play with a man, then call me. (Zarek)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#25. Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper.

Henri Nouwen

#26. Everything returns and renews itself. The difference now is that the rate of these returns has increased, in both space and time, in an unheard-of fashion. Now my thoughts can circle the globe in minutes. Entire passages of world history are played out in a couple of years.

Frigyes Karinthy

#27. The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.

Joyce Carol Oates

#28. Our specialty was exasperated dignity and the discombombulation of Authority.

Mack Sennett

#29. Music can change the world.

Ludwig Van Beethoven