Top 100 Quotes About Passing
#1. Maybe part of passing that test was a marker for where I've been, but it feels more like a pointer for something I'll never reach
Nancy E. Turner
#2. Meditation is both the symbol and expression of our intention to grow. Sitting still, alone with our thoughts and feelings, we can honor missed opportunities, passing desires, remembered disappointments, as well as our inner strength, personal wisdom, and ability to forgive and love.
Sebastian Pole
#3. We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.
Andre Breton
#4. With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.
Mignon McLaughlin
#5. I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.
Daniel Day-Lewis
#6. A man descending is propelled by inertia; the only initiative left him is whether or not he decides to enjoy the passing scene.
Guy Vanderhaeghe
#7. The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.
Benjamin Cardozo
#8. Lord Rees-Mogg argues that the time for reconciliation in Tibet is passing with the looming departure of its spiritual leader.
William Rees-Mogg
#9. The pulsations of the arteries along my fingers pressing across hers, told her what was passing within me:
she look'd down - a silence of some moments followed.
Laurence Sterne
#10. Congress' passing of the omnibus spending bill without reading it shows more than anything why they can't be trusted.
Neal Boortz
#11. As an arts journalist in London, working mainly for the BBC, I interviewed hundreds if not thousands of authors. From them I gleaned a great deal of passing instruction in writing and I observed one fascinating detail: no two writers approach their work - physically - in the same way.
Frank Delaney
#12. The thing about praising beauty is that good looks are an unforgiving task- master, a Forth Bridge of a maintenance job. The passing years present their accounts. Younger models become available.
Laurie Graham
#13. My love is unique and none can rival her ... Just by passing, she has stolen away my heart.
Michelle Moran
#14. They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway.
Malachy McCourt
#15. I've been passing through for the longest time.
Anne Rice
#16. Time rarely weighed upon him, for he had many methods of passing it.
Truman Capote
#17. The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.
Gene Simmons
#18. 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.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#19. Twittering and blogging and all that is fine, but there is no idea of how to phrase something beautifully; how to use language to create an emotion. It's just passing information and sometimes very superficial information.
Isabel Allende
#20. When you are in psychological distress and someone really hears you without passing judgement on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn good!
Carl R. Rogers
#21. Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing all the moving. I'm not the station, I'm not the stop: I'm the train. I'm the train.
Martin Amis
#23. Life is like an escalator. You see, it carries you on regardless. And you might as well enjoy the view and seize every opportunity while you're passing. Otherwise, it'll be too late.
Sophie Kinsella
#24. 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
#25. And when you fall, because you always do fall. When you swim for the beach to catch your board. There's peace to be found in the shoreward pull with every passing wave.
Michael Davidow
#26. The rain, which had continued yesterday and last night, ceased this morning. We then proceeded, and after passing two small islands about ten miles further, stopped for the night at Piper's landing, opposite another island.
Meriwether Lewis
#27. But she finally had the good sense to see that a long, dull and predictable future was an expensive price to pay for the satisfaction of a passing sexual attraction.
John Fowles
#28. Death is only passing through God's other door.
Edgar Cayce
#29. My home is in heaven. I'm just passing through this world.
Billy Graham
#30. You better ... buckle uh down and then tighten up to stop this passing game
Phil Simms
#31. The planet will adapt to anything. Maybe we should start to use the heart and the brain that we've been given to organize ourselves. Because if we keep screwing up things, we may be just passing by in the history of the planet.
Guy Laliberte
#32. I think it's safe to say that if you talk to anybody in Ireland, they'll have a passing knowledge of the guitar. It was something that I couldn't get away from when I was younger: guitars played in shops and parties, just everywhere.
James Vincent McMorrow
#33. He considered that he would one day accomplish some quiet subtle thing that the elect would deem worthy and, passing on, would join the dimmer stars in a nebulous, indeterminate heaven half-way between death and immortality.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#34. Every passing year brings us more past futures. Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin. It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be.
Bruce Sterling
#35. The soft black talc blew through the streets like squid ink uncoiling along a sea floor and the cold crept down and the dark came early and the scavengers passing down the steep canyons with their torches trod silky holes in the drifted ash that closed behind them silently as eyes.
Cormac McCarthy
#36. I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad. You exist in a bubble. There comes a point where you suddenly feel not really a part of the world, you're just passing through.
Chris Lowe
#37. Today..passes as yesterday, today is passing by ... Tomorrow shall become today and that too shall pass!
Escapades
#38. Dreams are like passing clouds but love makes the world stand still for something beautiful to happen.
Auliq Ice
#39. Indeed, it is evident that the mere passage of time itself is destructive rather than generative [ ... ] because change is primarily a 'passing away.' So it is only incidentally that time is the cause of things coming into being and existing.
Aristotle.
#40. 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
#41. To despond is to lie ungrateful beforehand. Be not looking for evil. Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
#42. My son, there is no rest for me. That which Sri Ramakrishna called "Kali" took possession of my body and soul three or four days before his passing away. That makes me work and work and never lets me keep still or look to my personal comfort.
Swami Vivekananda
#43. The question is not so much what the hand is doing (passing over some cash or a check) but what the heart is thinking while the hand is doing it.
John Stott
#44. But now that her moral sorrows were passing away a fresh one arose
Thomas Hardy
#45. I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that is not the passing of philosophy, and it leaves the philosopher with the task of grasping natures or essences (among other things).
Robert Adams
#46. I don't want this music to die.The older people are passing it on to the younger generation so the younger generation can pass it on to the next generation.
Vy Higginsen
#47. It is easy to miss the possibility that every person who crosses your path can become an event and a memory, good or bad, to fill in the hours with experience instead of tedium, to break the monotony of the passing moments.
R.A. Salvatore
#48. The corridor didn't seem long enough to contain so much blackness.
'Passing Through Peacehaven
Ramsey Campbell
#49. Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive.
Mac Thornberry
#50. That's what life is, a continual state of journey. You are a river passing downstream.
Jon Foreman
#51. I was just passing buy some racks of socks and remembered I needed some. So I picked 'em up. 1 black, 2 grey and 3 white pairs.
Lucas Grabeel
#52. Still, the car started, so we drove off to the movies. Popcorn happened. Previews, ads, and an annoying kid all went down like clockwork. The picture started and then ended a while later, the world unchanged by its passing.
Adam P. Knave
#53. Perhaps this is fashionable conversation - combative and unsettling, passing for casual talk.
Jessie Burton
#54. Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses ... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.
Archibald Cox
#56. Your destiny lies in your hands and can be molded with each passing day by the choices you make
Sunday Adelaja
#57. Pay attention, he thinks. Not to the grand gesture, but to the passing breath.
Lauren Groff
#58. 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
#59. I slipped the envelope into it, there in the wide lower corridor of the Arts Building with people passing me on the way to classes, on the way to have a smoke and maybe a game of bridge in the Common Room. On their way to deeds they didn't know they had in them.
Alice Munro
#60. Yet I stake a claim, I am here, for I must be somewhere. But only as a child it seems, struggling to understand what every wife and gentleman passing on the street seems to know by rote. Whom to love, whom to castigate.
Barbara Kingsolver
#61. No one sleeps more beautifully than you. But i am afraid that you will waken just now, and touch me with an indifferent glance, lightly passing, and commit the murder of beauty.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
#62. I'd prefer silence and random jokes about the passing billboards and scenery, but I know how he likes music. I just hope he doesn't start singing.
C.B. Cook
#63. One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I'm from East Orange, New Jersey, and started singing at New Hope Baptist Church, so she was like my fellow Jersey girl.
Naturi Naughton
#64. A lot of people ask me about my father's passing when I was young, which I'm never comfortable with. I invariably move around that subject.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
#65. A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment.
Julia Cameron
#66. 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
#67. I don't belong in this world, I am merely a traveller passing through, I repudiate to silence my thought, because they fear my light.
Nikki Rowe
#68. Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.
Muhammad Iqbal
#69. I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.
Thandie Newton
#70. Time wasn't passing so much as kneeling beside him in a torn tee-shirt disclosing the rodent-nosed tits of a man who disdains the care of his once-comely bod.
David Foster Wallace
#71. When it came to hatred, Brodd Tenways had a bottomless supply. He was one of those bastards who can't even breathe quietly, ugly as incest and always delighted to push it in your face, leering from the shadows like the village pervert at a passing milkmaid.
Joe Abercrombie
#72. The hunter who accepts the sporting code of ethics keeps his commandments in the greatest solitude, with no witness or audience other than the sharp peaks of the mountain, the roaming cloud, the stern oak, the trembling juniper, and the passing animal.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#73. If I could live in a tiny dwelling on a rock in the ocean, surrounded by the waves of the sea and cut off from the sight and sound of everything else, I would still not be free of the cares of this passing world, or from the fear that somehow the love of money might still come and snatch me away.
Cuthbert
#74. Who knew hitting my head and passing out would be so much fun?
P.C. Cast
#75. Happiness, like health, is probably also only a passing accident. For a moment or two the organism is irritated so little that it is not conscious of it; for the duration of that moment it is happy. Thus a hog is always happier than a man, and a bacillus is happier than a hog
H.L. Mencken
#76. [The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that dross).
Tod Papageorge
#77. Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.
Ivan Turgenev
#78. I was dozing on the sand, drowsy from the heat of the fire, when Naji shook me awake hours later. I rolled over and looked at him. "You're alive," he said. "Course I'm alive," I snapped. "You're the one who keeps passing out.
Cassandra Rose Clarke
#79. As a young person growing up in Washington, D.C., summers were hot, humid and relentless. My friends and I grew more restless and adventurous with every passing year.
Henry Rollins
#80. I love finding talent. Just to encourage people is a good thing. Every night, the audience encourages me. I'm just passing it on.
Liza Minnelli
#81. The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting to us, as it is most degrading to human dignity.
H. P. Blavatsky
#82. George III was incapable of passing on a sense of mission to his son might a given some purpose to the crown prince's existence
Henrik Bering
#83. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy.
Sylvia Plath
#84. 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
#85. Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.
Jared Polis
#86. It isn't that i consider them brave, they are reckless, unpredictable, maddeningly unreliable. But like rogue waves and shooting stars, they also add thrills to a life that otherwise would be as regular as the tide, as routine as day passing into night.
Amy Tan
#87. He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties which none before him had been capable of suggesting.
Claude Debussy
#88. Perhaps your fear in passing judgement is greater than mine in receiving it.
Giordano Bruno
#89. Frank Schirrmacher's passing is a great loss. Among the intellectuals, he, along with Friedrich Kittler, was the only one who understood the philosophical dimensions of the Internet.
Hubert Burda
#90. Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
Hermann Hesse
#91. I started finding hearts in things - whether it was like, a tree I was passing, a straw wrapper on the ground; I think the heart has one continuous line, which is very powerful.
Drew Barrymore
#92. Pray, pray, thou who also weepest,
And the drops will slacken so; Weep, weep
and the watch thou keepest, With a quicker count will go. Think,
the shadow on the dial For the nature most undone, Marks the passing of the trial, Proves the presence of the sun.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#93. Like children in a dark room, like wayfarers passing a graveyard at night, the four men in the canoe filled the surrounding darkness with the fear from their own hearts.
Richard Adams
#94. Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present. He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past.
Henry David Thoreau
#95. Robert got a pair of twins on a serving wench at Casterly Rock, three years ago when he went west for Lord Tywin's tourney. Cersei had the babes killed, and sold the mother to a passing slaver.
George R R Martin
#96. There was a cry heard, and a crash. The cry was so horrible in its agony that the frightened servants woke and crept out of their rooms. Two gentlemen, who were passing in the square below, stopped
Oscar Wilde
#97. The greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, nor in its gold. Its glory is in its Age, and in that deep sense of voicefulness, of stern watching, of mysterious sympathy ... which we feel in walls that have long been washed by the passing waves of humanity.
John Ruskin
#99. Every obnoxious circumstances in one's life is always a lesson to learn from.Whatever the ordeal you are passing through now, take them as a school that you will one day graduate from.
Osunsakin Adewale
#100. I'm not sure it's a better music world of appreciation and performance. I think the listener is a different guy, and listening is something he does in passing, with other stuff going on. There's less care and understanding of the relationship between the song and the listener.
Al Jarreau
