Passing Quotes
An empty frame, in which the picture is always changing, makes a statement about how time is always passing. It doesn't really stop, even in a single image. I t just feels that way.
Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation.
The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow.
Passing a tough resolution or threatening Iran will not bring about the desired outcome.
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 don't love CDs more than anything else, but I was just playing around with the idea that they could be something you're momentarily keeping hold of as everything is passing by.
I think that at this moment, I am trying to live the moments we're passing through. In the future, I will see where the future will take me.
For me teaching has provided community and livelihood and the satisfaction of passing along what I've learned to others.
Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won't rain forever. You just have to sit down and watch it pour outside and then peek your head out when it looks dry.
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.
It's really easy, once somebody passes away, for the tales about them to become taller, the good ones and the bad ones.
Time passes and the pain begins to roll in and out as though it’s a woman standing at an ironing board, passing the iron back and forth, back and forth across a white tablecloth.
This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.
Movie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over.
The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut.
Becoming an artist is about sitting and paying attention to the world that is passing everyone else by
Passing time isn't a steady thing. People try to measure it, but some days seem to have years packed into them, and others pass in the blink of an eye. Some days matter, and others don't.
All the difference between men and angels is, men are passing through the day of trial that angels have already passed through.
Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.
I'm laid back, I take my time, get the job done. Lebron is high flying, dunking, passing the ball well. He's getting the job done, too. But we're different.
And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies.
The one thing you'll notice when you're walking through Harlem is every single passing car is playing different music and there's also music that's being played out of windows.
After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig.
To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.
I think of translations as passing some scholarly smell test: you can read the words of the translation and be reasonably sure of what the words are in the original.
One of the many dreadful aspects of the Kennedy 'legacy' is the now-unbreakable grip of celebrity politics, image-doctoring, stage management, and "torch-passing" rhetoric in general.
Well-observed facts, though brought to light by passing theories, will never die; they are the material on which alone the house of science will at last be built.
Homer was wrong in saying, "Would that strife might pass away from among gods and men!" He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe.
Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.
Would you like to play With the thought of a friend In a distant passing stage While you lie around With your hands up and out So resigned you will fall down.
Remember, passing judgment on someone else's character, is only a reflection of your own.
Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world.
I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.
The consciousness of being borne up by a spiritual tradition that goes back for centuries gives one a feeling of confidence and security in the face of all passing strains and stresses.
Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly transmigrating and passing into all sorts of plants or animals.
I said, baby, do you have no shame? She just looked at me, uncomprehendingly, like cows at a passing train.
Remember that although bodies may pass away, the energy that connects you to a loved one is everlasting and can always be felt when you’re open to receiving it.