Pass Quotes - page 2

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. (Anthony Trollope)
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass. View quote
Walter Pater
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. View quote
Charles Dickens
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. View quote
Soren Kierkegaard
If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then? View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Few great men could pass personnel. View quote
Paul Goodman
Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life. View quote
Lucretius
The most important thing about recovery is to pass the message on. View quote
Maurice Gibb
The aspect of congresses and such meetings generally to which I attach the greatest importance is the discussion. That is why people assemble: to hear different opinions, rather than to pass resolutions. View quote
Fredrik Bajer
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. View quote
Earl Nightingale
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going. (David Starr Jordan)
Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off. View quote
William Henry Harrison
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene. View quote
William Ellery Channing
I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages: (i) this is worthless nonsense; (ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view; (iii) this is true, but quite unimportant; (iv) I always said so. View quote
J. B. S. Haldane
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. View quote
Robert Jordan
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Events are the ephemera of history; they pass across its stage like fireflies, hardly glimpsed before they settle back into darkness and as often as not into oblivion. Every event, however brief, has to be sure a contribution to make, lights up some dark corner or even some wide vista of history. View quote
Fernand Braudel
American institutionalists were not theoretical but anti-theoretical.... Without a theory they had nothing to pass on except a mass of descriptive material waiting for a theory, or a fire. View quote
Ronald Coase
ROAD, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow. (Brigham Young)
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young. View quote
Joseph Addison
What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities. View quote
Joseph Addison
The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt. View quote
Joseph Addison
Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again. View quote
Beatrix Potter