“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing. ”
- Marcel Proust- Copy
- 3.6K
“ 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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears. ”
- Robert W. Sarnoff- Copy
- 1.9K
“ It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured. ”
- Martin Cruz Smith- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears. ”
- Robert W. Sarnoff- Copy
- 2K
“ The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate. ”
- Marcus Terentius Varro- Copy
- 2.4K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else. ”
- Mitch Albom- Copy
- 1.2K
“ We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. ”
- General Omar Bradley- Copy
- 3.3K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.6K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.4K
“ All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.1K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty: elephants and poodles find many things obscure. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth…suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully. ”
- Julie Burchill- Copy
- 2K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.7K
“ He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 2.8K
“ I have the happiness of the passing moment, and what more can mortal ask? ”
- George Gissing- Copy
- 1.3K
“ I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. ”
- Lucille Ball- Copy
- 1.8K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.1K
“ 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- Copy
- 435
“ Is it not passing brave to be a King and ride in triumph through Persepolis? ”
- Christopher Marlowe- Copy
- 2.8K
“ It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite. ”
- Soren Kierkegaard- Copy
- 1.9K
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