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The secret passages of life are simply magnificent! You can continue walking without being noticed, far away from all the perils! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money. — Juvenal

Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable. — James F. Cooper

By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart. — Jay Parini

The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage. — Hank Nuwer

The mole is an animal that digs passages searching for the sun. Sometimes he reaches the surface. When he looks at the sun he goes blind. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

Just as with a traditional book, you can also highlight favorite passages, add notes, and create bookmarks. — Amazon

Reading the Bible has a purifying effect upon the heart and mind. As you read, the Holy Spirit will enlighten the passages for you. — Billy Graham

For there is no Christian, that means to be saved by believing rightly, can ever believe such impossible passages of grossness. — William Shakespeare

The mere passage of time makes us all exiles. — Joyce Carol Oates

By changing how you perceive things and how you act upon those perceptions, you will change your life. — Chris Prentiss

Perhaps the habit of intrigue is catching--in the air or the walls. Like secret passages, only in the mind. — Susan Kenney

You have enough courage to face even your greatest fear. — Chris Prentiss

Negative emotions, like depression or anxiety, have been shown to affect our immune system. Stress impedes wound healing. — Chris Prentiss

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse. — Anthony Trollope

The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it. — Charles De Saint-Evremond

Life is a passage through a museum of beauty. — Robert Genn

At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets. — Bernard Bailyn

It takes a strong person to stand up to his or her fate and overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of freedom and success, but I believe in you. — Pax Prentiss

You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages. — Al Stewart

I am tired of stairs and stone passages. i would give a good deal for the feel of grass at my toes. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident. — Dylan Thomas

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

[During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight. — Barbara Mikulski

I began asking myself just what my high was about. What did I do when I was high that I didn't do when I was sober? What was wrong that heroin fixed? — Pax Prentiss

There are secret passages all around you if you know where to look for them. — Steven J. Carroll

I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value! — Sam Palladio

For cleverness and wisdom are as different as are the circuitous passages of a labyrinth and the straight, upward flight of a bird. — Evangeline Walton

I try, but they always see through me. The passages will never lead anywhere, the doors will always be shut. — Jean Rhys

Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages. — Cameron Diaz

The witness of which the New Testament passages speak is God's gift, not our accomplishment. — Lesslie Newbigin

For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex. — William H Gass

On my bed, I sit down and flip through the cut-up books one by one, reading all the cut-up passages. — Jennifer Niven

the miracle happened; one of those quiet moments that clutch the heart, and take more courage than the noisy, excited passages in life. — Willa Cather

(Billy) Graham went through passages of hypochondria and his closest friends had to assure him that he was not about to die. — Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy

Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox. — Hillary Clinton

Starting with a melody, she'll lead you far away down passages of poetry where dreamers often play. — Susan Waterwyk

Many of the passages that describe the millennial kingdom also, in continuity, describe the new heaven and the new earth the eternal state. — Paul P. Enns

He also keeps his silence when Bible passages become shredded to justify unwinding, and kids start to see the face of God in the fragments. — Neal Shusterman

Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn't clear ... was toward what place, what reality, that passage led. — Roberto Bolano

Perhaps no more beautiful passages have ever been written about the Savior's atonement and crucifixion than those written by Isaiah. — Jeffrey R. Holland

When you change the way you see and interpret events, suddenly everything will be different for you. Everything will make sense. — Chris Prentiss

Changing your mind can move you into another dimension. Passages materialize exposing a hidden world that was there all along. — Bryant McGill

The world actually is a mirror, and as you change, you will see everything around you changing as well as mirroring your changes. — Chris Prentiss

Winds sweep the passages of time
Forever more
Taking, leaving
Memories. — Tyler Colins

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. — Edward Gibbon

When a problem or a difficult situation arises, say to yourself, as if you already believe it: "This is for my benefit. — Chris Prentiss

I do keep a tiny little journal in which I write passages that I read and want to hold on to. This practice is sort of the opposite of Twitter. — Dani Shapiro

A book did not qualify as literature unless it had polysyllabic words and incomprehensible passages. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The sounds pouring forth from his nasal passages registered somewhere between grizzly bear and exploding tractor trailer. — Alice Clayton

Think of this as a short book composed entirely of what I hoped would be a long book's quotable passages. — Sarah Manguso

You are a perfect spiritual being. Get used to that idea. — Chris Prentiss

Besides, if you want to write something perfect, write a haiku. Anything longer is bound to have a few passages that don't work as well as they might. — Philip Pullman

You have been marking the passages that seem to approve of your own character. — Virginia Woolf

Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter. — Nadine Gordimer

Slow down. Make a point of revisiting passages that seem especially rich, or especially confusing, or for that matter especially offensive. — Alan Jacobs

Apertures, passages from one world to another. Man's escape hatches. — P.K. Page

Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside. — Helene Cixous

The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita. — Mahatma Gandhi

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The world is actually a mirror, and as you change, you will see everything around you changing as well, mirroring your changes. — Chris Prentiss

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism. — Marguerite Young

I think my methods are more suggestive than assertive. Check out those passages again and see what you think. — Paul Lisicky

Fear the assassin who waits in the lonely passages of the heart. — Jack McDevitt

Refusing to teach a passage of Scripture is just as wrong as abusing it — Francis Chan

When I read passages like this, I want to look for the nearest wall to bang my head against. — S.T. Joshi

What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages. — Justin Cronin

I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative. — Janet Evanovich

Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest. — Henry Vaughan

The living water passages tell us we become vessels for God to pour himself into so we can pour him into others. — Mark Hall

You have chosen to exist, and more than just exist-- you've been chosen to share in the Universal consciousness. — Chris Prentiss

Davos could not complain of chill. The smooth stony passages — George R R Martin

Readers, professional or casual, are alert to passages in a book that illuminate what was previously shadowy and formless. — Maureen Corrigan

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows. — Ed Koch

Death is the least civilized rite of passage. — Louise Erdrich

The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through. — Cherrie Moraga

When passages are taken out of context and twisted, the result is a powerful, manipulative, and dangerous weapon indeed. — Lauren Drain

When you are bored of the plains, the secret passages to the mountains suddenly appear out of nowhere before you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

To understand the truth on any biblical teaching, we must consider all the passages on a subject. — United Church Of God

History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues. — T. S. Eliot

What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages. — Natalie Clifford Barney

If who you are and what you have is what you want, that's perfect. Keep doing what you've been doing and you'll get more of it. — Chris Prentiss

It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground. — Bob Seger

That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages
becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors. — Kelly Corrigan