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Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair. — Robert Kennedy

Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better. — Jeremy Collier

Most often we forget to live our lives by being too busy passing the time. — Debasish Mridha

The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one. — Cormac McCarthy

And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows! — Audrey Hepburn

Here, too, the honorable finds its due
and there are tears for passing things; here, too,
things mortal touch the mind. — Virgil

Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie. — Steven Pressfield

So passeth, in the passing of a day,
Of mortall life the leafe, the bud, the flowre — Edmund Spenser

Hope is a path on the mountainside. At first there is no path. But then there are people passing that way. And there is a path. - LU XUN — Jacqueline Novogratz

Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy. — Albert Einstein

Such is the passing that you must leave,
All men must die, and it is vain to grieve. — Abolqasem Ferdowsi

Let us cross the river to the other side and rest beneath the shade of the trees.
[Stonwall Jackson just before passing into eternity in 1863.] — Thomas Jackson

The Beatles are a passing phase, symptoms of the confusion about us. — Billy Graham

Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones. — Frederick Tennyson

Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way. — Joichi Ito

When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind. — Jeannette Walls

Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it. — Boris Pasternak

Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea. — Najib Razak

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet. — William Butler Yeats

Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation. — Abraham Lincoln

We are all of us clocks whose faces tell the passing years. — Arthur Stanley Eddington

Although we try to control it in a million different ways, the only things you can ever really do to time are enjoy it, or waste it. That's it. — A.J. Compton

The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully. — Henry Rollins

I nod to Death in passing, aware of the sound of my own feet upon my path. The — Peter Matthiessen

Films are my way of passing the time; books are my passion, my true love. But music is my refuge. — Melanie Raabe

George III was incapable of passing on a sense of mission to his son might a given some purpose to the crown prince's existence — Henrik Bering

Are you a King? Are you an Emperor? Can you stop the days passing by? If you cannot, you are nothing! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut. — Bion Of Borysthenes

Into the wikeawades warld from sleep we are passing. — James Joyce

SENTENCES OF THE KHAJAGAN
RUDBARI : Heart to heart is an essential means of passing on the secrets of the Path. — Idries Shah

The birth and rebirth of all nature, / The passing of winter and spring, / We share with the life universal, / Rejoice in the magical ring. — Doreen Valiente

It's hard to keep passing myself off as a grown-up when a piece of me is still six years old and utterly at the mercy of authority. — Sue Grafton

Something is very wrong. What began as a passing fascination with the book has turned into something darker, — Erika Swyler

Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either. — Eric Mazur

Keep doing the right. God is building character in you, and you are passing that test. Remember, the greater the struggle, the greater the reward. — Joel Osteen

every passing moment looking at the corpse, I became aware — James Patterson

Delegation is thepassing on of actions, actions, not the passing on of responsibility. — Eric Edmeades

It is an odd language, yours. You speak of passing time as in the Mountains we speak of passing wind. As if it were a thing to be gotten rid of. — Robin Hobb

The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing. — Marcel Proust

My love is unique. No one can rival her, for she is the most beautiful girl alive. Just by passing, she has stolen my heart. — Tyne O'Connell

Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time. — Bud Abbott

It isn't about knowing the most stories, child. It is about carrying the ones that are most important and passing them along. — Ishmael Beah

Everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue. — Ilka Chase

The receivers are an integral part of the passing game. — Hank Stram

Abby's eyes fell on a wooden sign hanging near the foot of his bed:I'm only passing through ... this world is not my home. — Karen Kingsbury

It gave an appalling idea of the value of an hour, and I thought I could never waste one again without remorse and terror. — Mark Twain

Every time you are passing the test, you are coming closer to Krishna. — Radhanath Swami

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

The sound of someone passing by the library entrance made the two of them scatter away, like cockroaches from the light. — A.Z. Green

We cannot make our way to the horizon without passing through the field of heather." It — Bradley P. Beaulieu

Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. — Thomas Gray

Mindfulness is the art of being present in the moment, without passing judgement about your experience. — Rhena Branch

The focus of Satan's efforts is always the same: to deceive us into believing that the passing pleasures of sin are more satisfying than obedience. — Sam Storms

George Harrison's passing was really sad, but it does make the afterlife seem much more attractive. — Michael Palin

They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway. — Malachy McCourt

One man's flash of lightning, ripping through the air, is another's passing glare. Hardly there. — Kate Tempest

I served, she came to the net, it was a passing shot. — Gabriela Sabatini

Here in Florida the seasons move in and out like nuns in soft clothing, making no rustle in their passing. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy. — Jimmy Carter

There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are passing now in the hope of getting better things. — Swami Vivekananda

Always think of passing the ball before shooting it. — John Wooden

The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time. — Paul Theroux

Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. — Patrick Rothfuss

The President sucked in his breath sharply. He also sucked in a big fly that happened to be passing at the time. He choked. — Roald Dahl

I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked. — Edvard Munch

The passing of the years awakens in our hearts the cry for permanence. — F.B. Meyer

Time, the ultimate grandmaster that could never be checkmated. There was no way out of its distended belly. — Rohinton Mistry

The L train passing noncommittally by so many lives, so many stories. — Joan Wehlen Morrison

I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it. — Marc Maron

Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their head, The wind is passing by. — Christina Rossetti

When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat. — Richard Greenberg

Gods, like men, can die. They just die harder, and smite the earth with their passing. — Max Gladstone

So passes away the glory of this world. ('Sic transit gloria mundi.') — Thomas A Kempis

Thankful another tomorrow greets
As I drink from cup of time
And prepare to lock the door behind me
and leave it to others — Richard L. Ratliff

The proper, wise balancing
of one's whole life may depend upon the
feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour. — Arnold Bennett

But I recently celebrated my thirtieth birthday and became acutely aware of my age, and the passing of time. — Judith Kinghorn

All things that are on earth shall wholly pass away,
Except the love of God, which shall live and last for aye. — William C. Bryant

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. — Omar Nelson Bradley

I think I work harder on the pitch, I cover more ground and my passing is more accurate. — Frank Lampard

Seize the day, then let it go. — Marty Rubin

Though we met at the same station,
we were but passing trains;
on parallel lines,
destined to never meet. — Timothy Joshua

Pay attention, he thinks. Not to the grand gesture, but to the passing breath. — Lauren Groff

It's not about keeping up the population, it's about passing on who we are and what we've learned, so things keep going. So we don't just end. — Isaac Marion

I struggle for air, but it's not because of my aching legs; it's because of my weak heart, growing stronger with each passing second. — Veronica Roth

The world is fleeting; all things pass away; Or is it we that pass and they that stay? — Lucian

No matter the challenges you are passing through today; always remember you are not alone. — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Gossip is passing on information when you are neither part of the problem nor part of the solution. — Rick Warren

With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons. — John Oates

Learn to be one with who you are in Reality, and the waves of a thousand passing worlds cannot wash you away. — Guy Finley

Neither our own passing nor the passing of an era is a tragedy, no matter how much we would like to think it is. — James Lee Burke

All Americans mourn the passing of the author of the Declaration of Independence, George Jefferson. — Andy Borowitz

Time is passing, ... We have to look at the reality of the situation and ... redouble our efforts and get on with it. — Colin Powell

Use your now well now! There is always another day to change something, but all the days we may meet may never be the same. Use your now well now! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Jane circled the mansion, passing door after door, all too la-di-da for comfort. — Jeanne Birdsall

I'm cheating on the man I'm cheating on my husband with, Anna thought. I grow less decent every passing day. — Jill Alexander Essbaum

The British are so incestuous. They pass around partners like they're passing popcorn at a movie. — Cameron Diaz

There was no more dangerous a time in a nation's life than the passing of a ruler when the succession was in doubt. — Leanda De Lisle

If the entire system works by electric signals passing from here to there, why the hell do we also need to feel fear? — Yuval Noah Harari

I know I probably never will win the league MVP or passing title. That is not why I play the game. I try to win football games and championships. — Ben Roethlisberger