Someone Passing Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The sound of someone passing by the library entrance made the two of them scatter away, like cockroaches from the light.

A.Z. Green

#3. When we assess someone's life or health on the basis of surface-level observations or passing comments, it presents us with a very flawed version of reality.

Evita Ochel

#4. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind's way of protecting itself from pain.

Patrick Rothfuss

#5. Salute to the Thief. Junaid of Baghdad was passing the scene of a public hanging, where a thief was on the scaffold. Junaid bowed towards the criminal. Someone asked him: 'What did you do that?' Junaid said: 'I was bowing before his single-mindedness. For his aim, that man has given his life.

Idries Shah

#6. God knows the hour of each person's passing. Whatever we did or didn't do for someone we loved, the timing of his or her departure was God's alone. "Thy will be done" is more than a prayer request. It's a forgone conclusion.

Liz Curtis Higgs

#7. I paved the path to the very place I don't want to be. But passing the blame off to someone else doesn't put me any place else.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#8. 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

#9. Someone once said that we get more difficult to love with each passing year because, over time, our histories grow so tangled that newcomers can no longer bushwhack their way into the thicketed and overgrown depths of our hearts.

Adrian Barnes

#10. Remember, passing judgment on someone else's character, is only a reflection of your own.

Demi Lovato

#11. Someone once asked me what I want on my epitaph when I pass away. Just the words 'I tried.' That's what this game of life is all about. Trying. There's the tryers, the criers, and the liars.

Mickey Rooney

#12. I'm not afraid of putting myself out there to someone and then them passing on it. At least you could have gotten a 'yes.' So it's worthwhile to have the cojones to do it.

Carol Leifer

#13. For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#14. I get all excited when I think that someone's 1-900 sex call from a cell phone might be passing through my body right now.

David Henry

#15. Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#16. It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens.

Carl Rogers

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. A castaway in the sea was going down for the third time when he caught sight of a passing ship. Gathering his last strength, he waved frantically and called for help. Someone on board peered at him scornfully and shouted back, Get a boat!

Daniel Quinn

#21. 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

#22. Living through difficult life circumstances in not an excuse for passing trauma onto someone else.

Cortney S. Warren

#23. He feels the way he used to feel passing love notes to girls in elementary school. Do you like me? the notes always read. Check yes or no. But he is older now and his question is older, too, not Do you like me? but Shouldn't someone?

Kevin Brockmeier

#24. 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

#25. The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.

Iris Murdoch

#26. Some of the best moments I've ever written have come about because someone, somewhere, blew my preconceptions out of the water and dropped a detail in passing that took the work in an entirely new, entirely unexpected, direction.

Greg Rucka

#27. Death never pierces the heart so much as when it takes someone we love; cleaving the heart they held with their passing.

Brandon M. Herbert

#28. The flow of blessings in our life is directly related to our passing blessings along to someone else.

Thomas Kinkade

#29. My entire notion of friendship altered when I depended on someone for more than just the pleasant passing of time.

Courtney Milan

#30. to pass on ignorance to someone is like passing on a curse.

Cindy McKenzie

#31. It's always difficult when someone close to you passes away. But it's really tough when they're on top of you.

Anthony Jeselnik

#32. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

Mitch Albom

#33. 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

#34. Someone who really wants to discover themselves has to be particularly careful about the use and abuse of power. But even your average human being just passing through another life has to be careful.

Frederick Lenz

#35. I don't want someone coming in and passing judgment on my life.

Sandra Bernhard

#36. 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

#37. Passing is contagious. There's nothing better than making the pass that gives someone an easy hoop.

Jason Kidd

#38. For most people, a life lived alone, with passing strangers or passing
lovers, is incoherent and ultimately unbearable. Someone must be
there to know what we have done for those we love.

Frank Pittman

#39. If you've no world of your own, it's rather pleasant to regret the passing of someone else's.

John Osborne

#40. That is the only sure way of knowing we have made someone happy: making someone miserable by our leaving them.

Michelle Franklin

#41. I am the recipient of many benefits that I do not deserve and did not earn. Someone else paid for them. I am grateful! How do I show my gratitude? By daily pouring into others and passing on to them the things that will allow them to run far and achieve beyond what I have done.

John C. Maxwell

#42. As someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with most of the 20th century presidents, I have often thought that their accomplishments have little staying power in shaping popular views of their leadership.

Robert Dallek