Pass Quotes

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

Time will pass and seasons will come and go.

The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit.

You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

I just don't think you pass on a great quarterback if you have the opportunity. If need be, you can trade it away.

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass. Cotton went on, but daddy bumped me in the rear and my car went right into the wall.

I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others.

Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.

I think there's bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill.

I don't want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta.

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.

There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

There is a phrase in French, which means 'to miss.' To pass by. To not be able to stop. You love someone and someone loves you, but it just can't work for different reasons.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.

I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?