Passes Quotes

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver.

I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes.

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.

The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth.

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

You know, I still love the innocent parts of the game. I love hitting tennis balls. I love seeing the young guys do well. I'll still have a lot of friends to watch. I'll miss the relationships probably the most. As time passes, I'll probably miss the tennis more.

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.

Everyone comes up to me saying, 'Cooee, Julie! Hello!' as if I know them. Of course I don't bloody know them. Am I flummoxed by it? Sometimes. I think, 'Ooh, love, go easy.' For a time, I did feel this pressure that I had to be funny, but it passes.

If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

What is lovely never dies, put passes into other loveliness.

Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away.

Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!

Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.