Passing famous quotes

feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Passing #Feels #Passings

The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow.
-- Aeschylus

#Clouds #Shadow #Passing

Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.
-- Alan Bennett

#Book #Other Worlds #Passing

He's passing the ball like Idi Amin.
-- Alan Parry

#Football #Balls #Passing

This world is not my home, I'm just a passing through...
-- Albert E. Brumley

#Home #World #Passing

Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

#God #Passing #Passings

Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Hours #Passing #Enjoy

With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.
-- Amy Tan

#Hope #Passing #Passings

In music I feel most deeply the passing of things.
-- Anais Nin

#Music #Passing #Feels

In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.
-- Andre Malraux

#Art #World #Passing

You can't get to wonderful without passing through alright.
-- Andrew Zuckerman

#Motivational #Wonderful #Passing

All Americans mourn the passing of the author of the Declaration of Independence, George Jefferson.
-- Andy Borowitz

#Independence #Passing #Mourn

If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time.
-- Anna Neagle

#Goal #Passing #Passings

When I’m taking a picture of Aya Sofia, what counts is the person passing by who stands for life
-- Ara Guler

#Passing #Passings #Persons

Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
-- Arthur Golden

#Saws #Excitement #Passing

The internet is just a passing fad.
-- Bill Gates

#Fads #Internet #Passing

Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.
-- Bill W.

#Decision #Indecision #Passing

Don't get up gentlemen. I'm only passing through!
-- Bob Dylan

#Gentleman #Passing #Passings

It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.
-- Bre Pettis

#Technology #Passing #Passings

Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.
-- Cameron Crowe

#Another Chance #Passing #Minutes

I'm not afraid of putting myself out there to someone and then them passing on it. At least you could have gotten a 'yes.' So it's worthwhile to have the cojones to do it.
-- Carol Leifer

#Cojones #Passing #Worthwhile

I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.
-- Charles Bukowski

#Airplane #Passing #Heard

Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.
-- Cotton Mather

#Land #Wilderness #Passing

None of us can choose the manner of our passing.
-- David Gemmell

#Passing #Passings

Be mindful of the passing of time, and engage yourself in zazen as though you are saving your head from fire.
-- Dogen

#Fire #Saving #Passing

He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that he loved her, and all the other knowledge seemed passing from him just as he needed it most.
-- E. M. Forster

#Action #Reason #Passing

So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortall life the leafe, the bud, the flowre
-- Edmund Spenser

#Bud #Passing #Passings

Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflectios of the eternal.
-- Eliphas Levi

#Beauty #Passing #Fugitive

Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.
-- Elizabeth Bishop

#Forget #Passing #Passings

There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.
-- Elliott Abrams

#Example #Passing #Dictatorship

Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards.
-- Ellis Peters

#Thinking #Passing #Passings

The spirit must be felt so intensely that it has power to call others in passing, for it must pass, not stop in the pictures...
-- Emily Carr

#Spirit #Passing #Passings

With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.
-- Eric Allin Cornell

#Years #Surprise #Passing

When times are difficult, I tell myself, 'I'm just passing through.'
-- Eric Cantona

#Passing #Difficult #Passings

Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.
-- Ferdinand Mount

#Transition #Transformation #Passing

I think I work harder on the pitch, I cover more ground and my passing is more accurate.
-- Frank Lampard

#Thinking #Passing #Work Harder

...time was not passing...it was turning in a circle...
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#Circles #Passing #Passings

I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.
-- Garry Trudeau

#Parades #Passing #Monitoring

I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?
-- George Gissing

#Happiness #Moments #Passing

For order represents our fear and nervousness. We create ordered interiors as a protest over the passing of things, to define our mortal lives against the void of time.
-- Gertrude Diamant

#Order #Void #Passing

The receivers are an integral part of the passing game.
-- Hank Stram

#Games #Passing #Passings

Death is no more than passing from one room into another.
-- Helen Keller

#Death #Rooms #Passing

I suspect there will never be a requiem for a dream, simply because it will destroy us before we have the opportunity to mourn it's passing.
-- Hubert Selby, Jr.

#Dream #Opportunity #Passing

And occasionally some of the nations that will be partners in this would probably not be, in terms of passing a pure human rights check, have everything going for them that you would like to have.
-- Hugh Shelton

#Rights #Checks #Passing

The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor . . . I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days.
-- Jack Johnson

#Fighting #Life And Death #Passing

Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
-- Jaclyn Smith

#Children #Helping #Passing

Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.
-- Jacques-Henri Lartigue

#Photography #Moments #Passing

How often is the passing of one storm only a prelude to another.
-- Jane Yolen

#Storm #Prelude #Passing

Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed.
-- Jennifer Lopez

#Opportunity #Should #Passing

Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.
-- Jessica Mitford

#Enemy #Important #Passing

Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity.
-- Jim Rohn

#Life #Intensity #Passing

Congress first took action against ***** by passing The Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990.
-- Jim Sensenbrenner

#Firsts #Action #Passing

Keep passing the open windows.
-- John Irving

#Perseverance #Window #Passing

A moment's thought is passion's passing knell.
-- John Keats

#Passion #Moments #Passing

Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing
-- Jonathan Safran Foer

#Fearless #Sound #Passing

Why does it have to be like this?' I asked bitterly. 'Why does life have to be so short, with all the good things passing quickly. Is it worth living at all?
-- Joseph Delaney

#Doe #Good Things #Passing

January has only one thing to be said for it: it is followed by February. Nothing so well becomes its passing.
-- Katharine Tynan

#February #January #Passing

I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
-- Larry Niven

#Fads #Privacy #Passing

These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.
-- Laura Ingalls Wilder

#Years #Golden #Passing

There was no more dangerous a time in a nation's life than the passing of a ruler when the succession was in doubt.
-- Leanda de Lisle

#History #Doubt #Passing

Passing competitors always gives you a lift. It probably has a physical effect, too, because you get a surge of adrenaline.
-- Libbie Hickman

#Giving #Passing #Adrenaline

In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing of one friend or one acquaintance has a profounder effect that that of 100,000 strangers. If there is any metaphorical truth in the Jewish proverb that he who saves one life saves the whole world, then there is equal metaphorical truth in the proposition that when one person dies, the whole world dies with them.
-- Louis de Bernieres

#World #Stranger #Passing

Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive.
-- Mac Thornberry

#Years #Alive #Passing

Passing out while you try to kill yourself is like failing at failing.
-- Maddox

#Trying #Failing #Passing

Knowing is passing from the false to the true and seeing the Absolute Whole in the part.
-- Mahmud Shabistari

#Knowing #Spirituality #Passing

The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate.
-- Marcus Terentius Varro

#Journey #Passing #Said

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time...
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Passing #Witness #Passings

For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing.
-- Marguerite Yourcenar

#Poet #Passing #Currents

Here in Florida the seasons move in and out like nuns in soft clothing, making no rustle in their passing.
-- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#Moving #Florida #Passing

It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured.
-- Martin Cruz Smith

#Writing #Scene #Passing

I am the life just passing through. I'm what remains and so are you.
-- Matthew Kahn

#Inspirational Life #Passing #Remains

I give thanks for all that has passed, for all that is passing, and for all that is yet to come.
-- Meg Rosoff

#Giving #Thanks #Passing

The Bible, however, was not created to be amended and altered with each passing culture.
-- Mike Huckabee

#Culture #Passing #Passings

[On swingers:] They have gone from Puritanism into promiscuity without passing through sensuality.
-- Molly Haskell

#Sex #Gone #Passing

We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent.
-- Mooji

#Trying #Passing #Passings

Everything is passing ... enjoy its momentariness
-- Mooji

#Happiness #Passing #Enjoy

You better...buckle uh down and then tighten up to stop this passing game
-- Phil Simms

#Games #Down And #Passing

The State is not the nation, and the State can be modified and even abolished in its present form, without harming the nation. On the contrary, with the passing of the dominance of the State, the genuine life-enhancing forces of the nation will be liberated.
-- Randolph Bourne

#Dominance #Passing #Genuine

I know my limit. I just keep passing out before I reach it.
-- Red Skelton

#Limits #Culinary #Passing

Death rides on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower.
-- Reginald Heber

#Death #Flower #Passing

Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by.
-- Rich Mullins

#Sky #Sun #Passing

This is life-and it is passing. What are we waiting for?
-- Richard L. Evans

#Life #Waiting #Passing

The light is no mystery, the mystery is that there is something to keep the light from passing through.
-- Richard Siken

#Light #Mystery #Passing

Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.
-- Robert Bresson

#Film #Made #Passing

I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die.
-- Robert Menzies

#Love #Passing #Passings

You don't live on the earth, you are passing through it.
-- Rumi

#Earth #Passing #Passings

With each passing moment, a Soul sets off to find Itself.
-- Rumi

#Soul #Moments #Passing

I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by.
-- Serena Williams

#Tired #Losing #Passing

Youth is an arithmetical statement of passing interest, each hour eats it up.
-- Stevie Smith

#Youth #Hours #Passing

There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are passing now in the hope of getting better things.
-- Swami Vivekananda

#Get Better #Passing #Enjoyment

This is what I have come to know: Our past is never passed and there is no such thing as moving on. But there is this telling and there is such a thing as passing through.
-- Tayari Jones

#Moving #Past #Passing

Implores the passing tribute of a sigh.
-- Thomas Gray

#Passing #Sigh #Tribute

Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.
-- Toni Cade Bambara

#Life #Stories #Passing

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.
-- Vernor Vinge

#Problem #Passing #Stage

In high school, every last one of the passing schemes was designed for me.
-- Antonio Gates

#School #Lasts #Passing

(Milosevic's passing) should not keep us from our efforts to provide peace and stability in the Balkans; on the contrary, it should renew them.
-- Frank-Walter Steinmeier

#Effort #Should #Passing

[The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that dross).
-- Tod Papageorge

#Photograph #Passing #Dross

When I’m taking a picture of Aya Sofia, what counts is the person passing by who stands for life
-- Ara Guler

#Passing By #Passing #Persons