Pass Quotes - page 3

I feel quite unable to adopt the opinion that the moment goods pass into the possession of the consumer they cease altogether to have the attributes of capital. (William Stanley Jevons)

I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.

Jonathan Edwards (theologian)

Steal to be sure they may and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Francis Bacon

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Richard Feynman

God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.

Aeschylus

For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.

William Blake

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold.

William Wordsworth

The stars of midnight shall be dear To her and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.

William Wordsworth

I love to do the things the censors won't pass. (Marilyn Monroe)

I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass.

Lewis Mumford

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.

Lucretius

Things we do not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.

Plautus

If the red slayer thinks he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways; I keep, and pass, and turn again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

And what 's impossible can't be, And never, never comes to pass.

George Colman the Younger

The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don't read and they rarely listen. This incessant bombardment of images has developed a hypertrophied eye condition that's turning them into a race of mutants. They should pass a law for a total reeducation of the young, making children visit the Galleria Borgese on a daily basis.

Federico Fellini

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.

Michael Ende

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

Winston Churchill

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

Martin Luther King Jr.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness. (John Keats)

Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.

Propertius

I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Ronald Reagan

Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other provinces, and a sight of the distant country.

Pierre Loti

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