Passing Quotes

We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.

There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve.

Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy.

For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy.

True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form, The bended knee, the eye uplift; is all Which men need render; all which God can bear. What to the faith are forms? A passing speck, A crow upon the sky.

Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

All science is transcendental or else passes away.

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

Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age.

And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.

The manuscript may go forth from the writer to return with a faithfulness passing the faithfulness of the boomerang or the homing pigeon.

The focus of Satan's efforts is always the same: to deceive us into believing that the passing pleasures of sin are more satisfying than obedience.

The Moon and Pleiades have set, / Midnight is nigh, / The time is passing, passing, yet / Alone I lie.

I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by.

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.

So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.')

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.

The job of a legislator is much more fixing existing law, revising it, improving it, than it is passing something that doesn't exist.

the earth is not my home, I'm just passing by

There were only 3 people that I wanted to meet in life, Nelson Mandela was one of them. What a life, what a journey, what a man. Thank you for passing this way! God bless your resting soul!

Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.

Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?

A power is passing from the earth.

For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result.

A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment.

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

feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal

The anger came creeping back like the leak from a dripping water tank, the fall of each individual drop passing almost unnoticed until I realized I was soaked with the emotion.

Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction.

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

This is my temporary home It's not where I belong Windows and rooms that I'm passing through This is just a stop, on the way to where I'm going I'm not afraid because I know this is my Temporary home

To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.

Scary is time passing and sickness and dying and regret and isolation and loneliness and relationship problems - as opposed to a guy in a hockey mask, which didn't seem that scary.

A lot of people ask me about my father's passing when I was young, which I'm never comfortable with. I invariably move around that subject.

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad. You exist in a bubble. There comes a point where you suddenly feel not really a part of the world, you're just passing through.

With each passing minute comes the chance to dream, create and inspire

I was just passing by. Saw the commotion. Figured you were involved.

If you're passing the buck, don't ask for change.

How do you feel?" he asked him. "Like a military academy," said Arthur. "Bits of me keep on passing out.

(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.

One senses the figures as passing by the tree line and, caught in the presence of the wall, turning to gaze upon it almost as a vision.

Time is passing...yet for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th.

I need thy presence every passing hour; What but thy grace can foil the tempter's power?

Neither our own passing nor the passing of an era is a tragedy, no matter how much we would like to think it is.

I used to pretend that I was just passing through this family on my way to my real one.

Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.

Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.

I think men spend so much time passing for being men.

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

I was just passing buy some racks of socks and remembered I needed some. So I picked 'em up. 1 black, 2 grey and 3 white pairs.