Pass Quotes

We must conserve our environment and pass it on to our children in as good or better condition than it was passed to us.

The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.

For me football is more about making the right pass at the right time.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system.

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

I think we may be seeing the beginnings of a resurgence of civic-mindedness in this country. Hopefully the younger generations, which came out in record numbers during the last presidential election, will pass their enthusiasm on to their children.

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.

When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.

Unfortunately, the real focus in this country has not been on the rest of the world. It's been on our own issues and our own problems. Fair enough. But it means that our simple hopes that everything will just work out abroad aren't really coming to pass.

We have to change course. And we have to do so now. That is why I worked with my colleagues in Washington to pass the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

I think it's wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them.

My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.

We didn't pass any constitutional amendments that affected the executive branch while I was governor.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

It's really nice to pass the ball when you're in an ensemble cast.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Theories pass. The frog remains.

I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going to fully appreciate what this reform is if we pass it and implement it and it becomes not a caricature but a reality, and I still believe that. So I think it will be easier to sell it moving forward than it was to this point.

I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.