Passing Quotes

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.

I love watching little Paul Scholes, he's so in control of what he's doing and is always so accurate and pinpoint with his passing - it's just beautiful to watch.

Everything passes, but nothing entirely goes away.

You don't create jobs by passing bills, you create jobs by cutting taxes.

For souls nobly born, valor doesn't await the passing of years

There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow.

Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing.

Grieve not that I die young. Is it not well to pass away ere life hath lost its brightness?

The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.

Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.

His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.

I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here.

To snatch the passing moment and examine it for signs of eternity is the noblest of occupations.

Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown.

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?

I you don't value your time, no one else will.

I'm trying not to move, it's just your ghost passing through

We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home.

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

This was one of those special occasions when I could actually feel the inner appreciation of the beauty of the moment passing like an electric current through the brush in my hand.

Poor is a state of mind. Broke is, 'I'm just passing through.'

There is nothing like it for morale to be reminded that the years are passing - ever more quickly - and that bits are dropping off the ancient frame. But it is nice to be remembered at all.

A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

Every spirit passing through the world fingers the tangible and mars the mutable, and finally has come to look and not to buy.

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

It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.

The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.

When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others.

Speeches pass away, but acts remain.

However we pass Time, he passes still, Passing away whatever the pastime, And, whether we use him well or ill, Some day he gives us the slip for the last time.

Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.

Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing.

How can time be long or short? Time is without length or breadth. The question is, what happened during its passing. And what happened is, our lives have been joined together.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

The stars will wheel forth from their daytime hiding places; and one of those lights, slightly brighter than the rest, will be my wingtip passing over.

With my dad passing away, he's always watching me-a big smile on his face, watching every snap on the 50-yard line.

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.

The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.

The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but he never wholly succeeds in overtaking the reality.

Passing away" is written on the world and all the world contains.

Laugh often friends tho' passing years bring, sometimes, smiles and, sometimes, tears, for mirth forever warms and cheers. Laugh often!

Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.

The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.

This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.

Delegation is the passing on of actions, actions, not the passing on of responsibility.

Passing is contagious. There's nothing better than making the pass that gives someone an easy hoop.

There is no Champollion to decipher the Egypt of every man's and every being's face. Physiognomy, like every other human science,is but a passing fable.

I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.

Arizona faces many challenges ahead. None is more important or more pressing than passing a new state budget.