Pass Quotes

Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.
Samuel Butler

Bad, Trying, Another

We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.
George Harrison

Truth, Away, Between

Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.
Christian Dior

Women, After, Between

We need to go back to the way it was 30 years ago, when everybody had Grandma and Grandpa, and we were willing to pass moral judgments about right and wrong.
Steven Tyler

Wrong, Moral, Everybody

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.
Lou Holtz

Life, Spectator

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
Samuel Johnson

Great, May, Cannot

The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.
Charles Stanley

Patience, Waiting, Before

Time brings all things to pass.
Aeschylus

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 P. Feynman

Time, Future, Human

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
Lord Chesterfield

Good, Wife, Together

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.
George W. Bush

Able, Her, Child

Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.
Usain Bolt

Good, Morning, Person

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
E. M. Forster

Good, Two, Before

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
Omar Khayyam

Life, Wise, Today

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
Andre Maurois

Men, Praise, Modesty

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.
E. M. Forster

Sunshine, Through, Adventure

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.
Stephen King

Time, Home, School

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
Eric Hoffer

Society, Passion, Thought

I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride.
Henry Rollins

Life, Through, Ride

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.
Doug Coupland

Car, Long, American

If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
Abba Eban

Vote, Earth, Resolution

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.
George Herbert

Cannot, Others, Forgive

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.
Willie Stargell

Family, Smile, Someone

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
William Ralph Inge

Different, Opinion, While

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?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Him, Through, Soul

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.
George W. Bush

Great, Nation, Show

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.
Joseph Addison

May, Remember, Young

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
Adam Smith

Through, Road, City

Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.
Donald Rumsfeld

Work, Best, Job

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!
Paul J. Meyer

Whatever, Desire, Act

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