Top 100 Quotes About Passes
#1. God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.
John Of The Cross
#2. Rex Stout's narrative and dialogue could not be improved, and he passes the supreme test of being rereadable. I don't know how many times I have reread the Wolfe stories, but plenty. I know exactly what is coming and how it is all going to end, but it doesn't matter. That's writing.
P.G. Wodehouse
#4. Time passes you say, But no! Alas, time is staying and we pass by.
Andrew Dobson
#5. Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.
John Muir
#6. During its development the animal passes through all stages of the animal kingdom. The foetus is a representation of all animal classes in time.
Lorenz Oken
#7. 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
#8. The scientific tradition is distinguished from the pre-scientific tradition by having two layers. Like the latter, it passes on its theories; but it also passes on a critical attitude towards them.
Karl Popper
#10. The most profound enchantment for the collector is the locking of individual items within a magic circle in which they are fixed as the final thrill, the thrill of acquisition, passes over them.
Benjamin Franklin
#11. But beauty vanishes; beauty passes; However rare rare it be; And when I crumble, who will remember This lady of the West Country?
Walter De La Mare
#12. Sadly, a lot of what passes for feminism these days is just moaning about men, congratulating ourselves on nothing in particular, and mocking them for being big kids while doing everything we can to keep them that way.
Julie Burchill
#13. What goes in the mind is forgotten, what goes in the stomach just passes through, but that which goes in the heart is locked, like a keepsake diary, that never leaves you.
Anthony Liccione
#14. Catching a glimpse of his rather hippyish form in a mirror, he wonders at this atavism of apparel, is it an inversion of foetal ontogeny, in which the phenotype passes through previous fashion stages? Soon there will be gaiters and gloves ... I will probably die, he thinks, clad in animal skins.
Will Self
#15. Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through.
Bob Dylan
#16. What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.
George Jean Nathan
#17. Your life is a sum of counted breaths.
With each breath that passes
a part of life is lost.
That which gives life brings death every moment nearer,
and your caravan is led by one
who will not jest with you.
Abu'l-'Atahiya
#18. If I had time in a bottle, if words could make wishes come true, I'd save everyday for eternity passes. And then I would spend them with you.
Jim Croce
#19. What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the selfish as forgetful, the angry as impassioned.
Nick Laird
#20. You are nothing but a number of days, and whenever a day passes away, a part of you passes away
Al-Hasan Al-Basri
#21. There is in some men a dispassionate neutrality of mind, which, though it generally passes for good temper, can neither gratify nor warm us: it must indeed be granted that these men can only negatively offend: but then it should also be remembered that they cannot positively please.
Sir Fulke Greville
#22. Rush Limbaugh says if the health care bill passes, he will leave the country. The Democrats are upset, because if they knew that, they would have passed the bill years ago.
Craig Ferguson
#23. His rage passes description - the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#24. As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.
Henry Parry Liddon
#25. Refraction, he called it. The way light is broken up into component colors when it passes through a prism. I felt like a refraction of a person. So many different shades that layer to create the illusion of a solid thing.
Graham Moore
#26. More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes. It must pass ...
Beth Revis
#27. When someone you love passes away
Your life changes forever ...
Tawana Beecham
#28. Just as the dweller in this body passes through childhood, youth and old age, so at death he merely passes into another kind of body. The wise are not deceived by that.
Anonymous
#29. The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.
Henry David Thoreau
#30. In order to mount to the Cross, the summit of sacrifice, and to God, the summit of immateriality, Christ passed through all the stages which the man who struggles passes through.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#31. Trust me, Mer, any man who passes up the chance to be with you is the stupid one."
"You tried to pass me up," I reminded him.
"That's how I know," he replied with a smile.
Kiera Cass
#32. Time passes faster and faster, but with every project I always want to find the next challenge and the next challenge is just as exciting as the previous one.
Alexander Wang
#33. Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.
Patrick Ness
#34. I worked the Giants win over the Texans earlier this season. The Giants ran the heck out of the ball. Eli Manning rolled out away from Watt just about every time and changed the release point on his passes. The Cowboys have a road map.
Dan Fouts
#35. When someone you know passes on, the only thing you can do is keep moving forward.
Danny Glover
#36. Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.
George F. Kennan
#37. From the moment we are born, we are
dying. Little by little, with each day that passes, we draw closer to the inevitable.
Jonathan L. Ferrara
#38. What passes out of one's mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to speak well.
Desiderius Erasmus
#39. Some hurts can never be mended" he said. "No matter how much time passes. They tattoo themselves on our souls
Yasmine Galenorn
#40. Drummer, beat, and piper, blow
Harper, strike, and soldier, go
Free the flame and sear the grasses
Til the dawning Red Star passes
Anne McCaffrey
#41. I loved 'Ghana Must Go' by Taiye Selasi. It's about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.
Uzo Aduba
#42. Time passes. I drift in and out. As if I cease to be, until I remember to exist again.
Johnny Rich
#43. With every day that passes I am more convinced that the act of writing is a concious act of humility.
Roberto Bolano
#44. Time passes fast when you're not in step. If you think for a moment that you can get it back, wake up - you can't. Some people think time is theory. Everything is a cycle of events happening over and over. If you think this is true, then be aware and learn from your mistakes.
Mandi Lynn
#45. Pluck with quick hand the fruit that passes.
Ovid
#47. Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#48. As a child, every human being passes through a state of powerlessness, and truth is one of the strongest weapons of those who have no power.
Erich Fromm
#49. Time passes, her mother said, peeling carrots. No matter what you do. No matter what happens, she said, crushing garlic, hammering the side of her favorite knife with her fist. Beauty or horror, my heart. Turning on the stove. Beauty or horror, it passes.
Alexander Maksik
#50. If Sunday is the Lord's day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the week when he gives out Free passes to the Late show at the Too Much Fun Club.
Hunter S. Thompson
#51. Sweet Crescent Moon ... ," he whispered, his lips barely able to form the words. He began to shiver. "Up in the sky ... " He hummed a few bars of a song, a lullaby that seemed barely familiar. "You sing your song ... so sweetly ... after sunshine passes ...
Marissa Meyer
#52. Every minute, hour and hour that passes daily should be converted into product
Sunday Adelaja
#53. I don't greatly care for passes this early in the morning.
Raymond Chandler
#54. He could be boastful in a way pleasantly at odds with his native fatalism, and his youthful stubbornness had a way of ameliorating into a sort of wounded dignity, which was centered in the darting passes of his deep-set, dark eyes.
Dan Lopez
#56. [The married woman is] is a bonded slave, who takes her master's name, her master's bread, and serves her master's passion; [and] who passes through the ordeal of pregnancy and the throes of travail at his dictation.
Voltairine De Cleyre
#57. We need to welcome the experimental creativity that is always searching out new ways of singing the Gospel, and banish the fear that grips us when familiar music passes away.
Michael Adam Hamilton
#58. Like all good teachers, he loves the moment of revelation, when the light of knowledge passes to his pupil.
Rae Carson
#59. So the year passes into many yesterdays, and winter comes again.
Jessie Weston
#60. For what that passes among mortals everywhere is not full of folly, done be fools in the presence of fools?
Erasmus
#61. Father, a day upon the throne would be like a day of sitting on a bed of hot coals for me. If my heart has no peace, how can I fulfil your or the people's trust in me? I have seen how quickly time passes, and I know my youth is no different. Please grant me your permission.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#62. If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.
Austin O'Malley
#63. I could become servile, cloying, saccharinely sweet: the whole package of lies that passes in the world as femininity.
Erica Jong
#64. Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it.
Robert Breault
#65. I felt like I was leaving a piece of my soul behind the moment I left. And every second that passes, I miss you like that, times a million.
J.A. Huss
#66. But sometimes the night reveals the only truth that time passes and things will never be seen the same again.
Delphine De Vigan
#67. door slams. Time passes and I carry on staring up into the sky. The pain went a long time ago.
Ted Lewis
#68. There are two men in me
one lives in the full sense of the word, the other reasons and passes judgment on the first. The first will perhaps take leave of you and the world forever in an hour now; and the second ... the second?
Mikhail Lermontov
#69. Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
Euripides
#71. Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence, it is almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening [to men] without snickering.
H.L. Mencken
#72. Gentle lady, do not sing
Sad songs about the end of love;
Lay aside sadness and sing
How love that passes is enough.
Sing about the long deep sleep
Of lovers that are dead, and how
In the grave all love shall sleep:
Love is aweary now.
James Joyce
#73. The lecture theatre - the place where information passes from the notebook of the lecturer to the notebook of the student without necessarily passing through the mind of either.
Jim White
#74. He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
Thucydides
#75. Sometimes everything passes fast before you while you are sitting and sometimes everything sits while you are passing fast before them! In both cases you feel lonely!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#76. For sure, th' world is in a confusion that passes me or any other man to understand; it needs fettling, and who's to fettle it, if it's as yon folks say, and there's nought but what we see?
Elizabeth Gaskell
#77. Come on, life passes you by when you stand around talking
about it.
Katie Kacvinsky
#78. The body ages, grows, passes through near-lunatic phases of reproductive frenzy, but you are born and die essentially the same person.
That ... that is proof of your deathless soul.
Chuck Palahniuk
#79. Yet there be certain times in a young man's life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood
Rudyard Kipling
#80. Like fragile ice, anger passes away in time. Therefore, the greatest remedy for anger is delay. - Gideon Penman of Muirwood Abbey
Jeff Wheeler
#81. No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.
Eric Idle
#82. Summer passes into autumn in some unimaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf.
Henry David Thoreau
#83. Let nothing be said about anyone unless it passes through the three sieves: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?
Amy Carmichael
#84. As time passes, I feel more and more a sense of acting being a fundamental part of who I am.
Michael C. Hall
#85. We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#86. If you ever see shitty ass rock dudes in shitty ass rock bands asking you to show them your tist for backstage passes, I want you to spit right in their fucking faces and yell 'FUCK YOU!
Gerard Way
#87. Love is watchful. Sleeping, it does not slumber. Wearied, it is not tired. Pressed, it is not straitened. Alarmed, it is not confused, but like a living flame, a burning torch, it forces its way upward and passes unharmed through every obstacle.
Thomas A Kempis
#88. A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh coat of quicksilver in other words, when it acquires new sensitiveness; and the novel's success lies in its own sensitiveness, not in the success of its subject matter.
E. M. Forster
#89. Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.
Honore De Balzac
#90. That's what I like about sports. No matter if everyone playing the game speaks completely different languages, on the field, or the court, wherever they are playing, the language of moves and passes and scores is all the same. Universal.
Rachel Cohn
#91. Just because Congress passes a law and says it's all right to do a certain thing does not mean that it's all right to do it. Abortion is still just as wrong today as it was the first day of January, 1973.
Shelton Smith
#92. For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.
G.K. Chesterton
#93. The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family ... The family is placed at the center of the great struggle between good and evil, between life and death, between love and all that is opposed to love.
Pope John Paul II
#94. A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series. When the articles are quite finished they are carried out of sight by currents of commercial exchange. These currents are untraceable.
John Bates Clark
#95. Everybody acts like the future is so far away, when really every moment that passes is the future.
Noah Hawley
#96. What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.
Clare Boothe Luce
#97. It's not in searching externally for the peace that passes all understanding; it's in searching from within you.
Alice Hocker
#98. It seems that what God does most of the time when He has something to say is this ... He doesn't pass us messages, instead he passes us each other.
Bob Goff
#99. Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
Agnes Repplier
#100. Thus passes away all man's life. Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable. For we think either of the misfortunes we have or of those which threaten us.
Blaise Pascal
