Passing Quotes

Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality.

We will not really address our foreign policy and these endless wars that show no end in sight and seem to be getting deeper and broader and more catastrophic with each passing day.

We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy.

What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.

If you are not moving forward, the world is passing you by.

What do you mean by meant? Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is it the only value passing time as comfortably as possible?

This whole theory of alienation that intellectuals have been passing on, really is just to stop a lot of ham acting. If you fill something with a proper emotion, it didn't worry him at all.

A moment's thought is passion's passing knell.

I see ethical considerations as having a certain priority in our interactions - passing judgment on our political and legal processes.

Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion.

The question is not so much what the hand is doing (passing over some cash or a check) but what the heart is thinking while the hand is doing it.

In my own life if I knew I was going to pass away I'd love to sit down and resolve every issue so I could go peacefully.

Always think of passing the ball before shooting it.

Do passing drills that come from your offense.

Years were passing through the spaces between moments.

Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing

It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.

We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.

Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.

Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record and preserve the very passing of Time?

In black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white.

Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform.

Sometimes we'll only see each other in passing, like ships passing in the night.

They shouldn't call death passing on. They should call it leveling up. Because the game only got harder once I lost. And I was more than a little worried it had only just begun.

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

I'm beginning to think that life is about passing moments and small celebrations. Without them there's only pain, fear, ambition, and, for some of us, foolish hope.

Putting your hand into a river, you simultaneously touch the last of what is passing and the first of what is coming.

Just because the years are passing doesn't mean that the quality of our lives must automatically go downhill.

It does not do to laugh at the pangs of youth. They are very terrible because youth has not yet learned that 'this, too, will pass away.

she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.

I'm weird; I have a very strange emotional memory. I really somehow hold on to even passing moments with people.

The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.

This comes with my/our deepest sympathy, and the hope that the dear memories of your loved one and the passing of time will ease your sorrow.

Racine will pass away like the taste for coffee.

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

A child, then a man, now a feather / Passing through a furious fire / Called time.

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

Are you weary? Catch your breath. Are you strong? Reserve passing judgment on the tired.

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

Are you a King? Are you an Emperor? Can you stop the days passing by? If you cannot, you are nothing!

The beauty of a house by the lake side in the middle of wilderness can best be appreciated not by those who permanently live in the house but by the travellers passing by!

We need to welcome the experimental creativity that is always searching out new ways of singing the Gospel, and banish the fear that grips us when familiar music passes away.

My mother's in my life, but at the time you imagine your mom passing away, not being there ... as a kid you try to think of something that hurts you the most ... It was just a tool [in "Hardball"].

We're getting used to reality and fantasy passing into each other. Much of the border between them has been erased.

George Harrison's passing was really sad, but it does make the afterlife seem much more attractive.

The environment is not just around you, it's passing through you.

There are no truths, only moments of claryty passing for answers.

I believe in the autobiographical concept only to the degree that I am able to put onto film all that's passing through my head at the moment of shooting.