Passes Quotes

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing?

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Time passes irrevocably.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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