Passes Quotes

Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.

Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.

I don't believe in the afterlife, so I do think when somebody passes, it's worthy of note.

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you're a celebrity because people care.

Time passes irrevocably.

My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.

A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series. When the articles are quite finished they are carried out of sight by currents of commercial exchange. These currents are untraceable.

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

Paris Hilton, that's very interesting what she did. I've never done that. I haven't really sort of ever got into that. As time passes, maybe I should record it and put it in a vault so that when I get a little old don't have the energy I can remember how life used to be.

Plus, 40% of our debt is owned by foreign interest. I can't support a plan that passes along cost burden to our children and makes us more reliant on foreign dollars.

It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

Some people may get in to the building without the proper passes and things, but I think that's the price you pay for being an open place for people to come.

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it.

I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that.

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.

The drug plans our seniors choose will define their health care options for years to come. If they do not make a decision and wait until the May 15 deadline passes, they will face penalties and higher prices for the drugs that they need.

But sweetly and discreetly love passes from person to person, from heart to heart, or it is nothing worth.

They don't pay you a million dollars for two-hand chest passes.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.

Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable.

They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself.

Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.