Pass Quotes

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

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

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.

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!

Unfortunately a Constitutional amendment that would have empowered Congress to make desecration of the United States flag illegal failed to pass by one vote.

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.

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.

There are only so many hours you can sit on the bus and watch TV or play basketball or whatever we do to pass the time before we go out onstage.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.

Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?

If you look at the Bible almost everything that was predicted, maybe everything, has come to pass.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

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

Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess.

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.

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.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.