Quotes of Passing - somelinesforyou

“ Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name! ”

- Walter Landor

“ The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does. ”

- Harpo Marx

“ The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing. ”

- Marcel Proust

“ The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return. ”

- Vilayat Inayat Khan

“ Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin. ”

- Herman Hesse

“ Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears. ”

- Robert W. Sarnoff

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

- Martin Cruz Smith

“ Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears. ”

- Robert W. Sarnoff

“ The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate. ”

- Marcus Terentius Varro

“ 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? ”

- Walt Whitman

“ Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else. ”

- Mitch Albom

“ Gray skies are just clouds passing over. ”

- Duke Ellington

“ Very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. ”

- Bible

“ We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. ”

- General Omar Bradley

“ Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong as its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. ”

- Marcus Arelius Antoninus

“ History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illuminates reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life, and brings us tidings of antiquity. ”

- Cicero

“ All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things. ”

- Robert Southey

“ All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty: elephants and poodles find many things obscure. ”

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

“ Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth…suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully. ”

- Julie Burchill

“ Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are. ”

- Robert Bresson

“ He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ I have the happiness of the passing moment, and what more can mortal ask? ”

- George Gissing

“ I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. ”

- Lucille Ball

“ I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy. ”

- Anais Nin

“ In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit. ”

- Alfred North Whitehead

“ Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis? ”

- Christopher Marlowe

“ It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite. ”

- Soren Kierkegaard
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