Passing Quotes
I started finding hearts in things - whether it was like, a tree I was passing, a straw wrapper on the ground, I think the heart has one continuous line, which is very powerful.
Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year.
It's becoming less and less the National Security Agency and more and more the national surveillance agency. It's gaining more offensive powers with each passing year.
I think the hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome in my life is the illness and passing of my mother to cancer.
For a single girl in London, luck isn't always a glass slipper that fits. Sometimes luck is a splash of mud from a passing bus.
There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.
Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards.
President Reagan is now at rest. We mourn his passing, but we are grateful for the gifts he gave us: a safer world, strong economic base, and a renewed belief in America's greatness.
Have you ever thought about it, about simply leaving? Really, truly thought about it with the intent to follow through and not as a dream or a passing fancy?
So this was a nest of radicals. She thought a hotbed of sedition would involve more gunpowder and secret handshakes, and less shuffling of feet and passing the sugar.
I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
War begun without good provision of money beforehand for going through with it is but as a breathing of strength and blast that will quickly pass away. Coin is the sinews of war.
If we are in a high enough state of consciousness we see that life is only a passing dream.
Imagine wave after wave of joy passing through your whole body. As each wave passes through your body, feel that all worries, tensions, anxieties and problems are being washed away.
The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices--and to make sure that somebody notices.
For all things are baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but intervening shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.
Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.
When my daughter was a senior in high school, I remember noticing, almost in passing, that her friends were very cute. Which made me realize her friends' fathers probably found Molly very cute.
I commend you, however, for passing the time in as merry a manner as you possibly could; it is assuredly better to go laughing than crying thro' the rough journey of life.
We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.
The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit.
I like the sense of the road passing my eyes. It's always a fascinating experience to come into a new city...the sense of the people changing, the food changing, everything changing, the art.
... the decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny.
A man descending is propelled by inertia; the only initiative left him is whether or not he decides to enjoy the passing scene.
Delegating doesn't mean passing off work you don't enjoy, but letting your employees stretch their skills and judgment.
I wrote that President Bush is passing on to President-elect Obama two wars and an economic debacle. I call it a depression. And he is arming Israel against the Palestinians in every way in Gaza.
He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past
Nelson Mandela will always be the face of South Africa. The traveler passing through the country will see Mandela's face almost everywhere he looks. Truly, the man is omnipresent.
As a young person growing up in Washington, D.C., summers were hot, humid and relentless. My friends and I grew more restless and adventurous with every passing year.
Flash mobbing may be a fad that passes away, or it may be an indicator of things to come.
everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.
The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom.
Just as we bemoan the passing away of the Great Novel, a great novelist is likely to emerge, perhaps even from Denmark or Switzerland, to prove us wrong.
And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world.
I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.
our sons and daughters are only passing through. ... If we are lucky, they always will consider our home their harbor, but they are headed out to the open sea, almost from the first.
The whole point of constitutional democracy is the peaceful transfer of power; of Al Gore passing the baton to George W. Bush, even though that election was very suspiciously called.
Every year, at 8:00 PM on the second Saturday of July, hundreds of people gather along a section of Los Angeles rail track to drop their pants and moon passing passenger trains.
I think one remains the same person throughout, merely passing, as it were, i these lapses of time from one room to another, but all in the same house.
As anger is a passing storm, so it comes not gradually and with signs, but like a sudden sweep of wind or black squall.
I feel like my life is just passing me by like two ships in the night. And I have missed both boats.
Writing an autobiography, usually thought of as a looking back, can just as well be a looking across or through, with the passing of time giving an X-ray quality to the eye.
Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.
Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity.