Passing Quotes

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve.

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?

The financial crisis in our country is not a passing storm. Given the size of the problems, our national effort will not be completed in 2012. It will take many years and will require the efforts and insistence of several governments.

I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.

We can no longer stand for the Security Council passing resolutions and then in effect heaving alongside and taking a vacation. We cannot leave it to the secretary general to go cap in hand.

I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.

Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.

Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.

True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.

Congress first took action against steroids by passing The Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990.

Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas.

Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.

Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex offenses and requiring prisoners to serve more time.

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

I am Ecuadorian but people felt so safe passing me off as a skinny, blue-eyed white girl.

I served, she came to the net, it was a passing shot.

Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players.

My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.

If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?

In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time.

It's not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It's not heading for the punchline, and also it's not about scoring goals. It's about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves.

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.