Passing Quotes
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“My yoga teacher says to think of your thoughts like skateboarders passing through our line of vision; just watch them go by, don't try to follow them down the street.”
Gabrielle Bell -
Every passing year brings us more past futures.
Bruce Sterling
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Photographing expresses human desire to preserve passing time. It is like a man struggling with time that elapses, and in general - a desire to preserve oneself.
Ryszard Kapuscinski -
Do not adjust your sandals while passing through a melon-field, nor yet arrange your hat beneath an orange-tree.
Ernest Bramah -
Becoming an artist is about sitting and paying attention to the world that is passing everyone else by.
Blaine Hogan -
Nobody on this planet had a range of passing like Paul Scholes. Training every day was a pleasure just watching him. Unbelievable career.
Michael Owen -
I commend you, however, for passing the time in as merry a manner as you possibly could; it is assuredly better to go laughing than crying thro' the rough journey of life.
George Washington -
Effective science began when it passed from the occasional amateur into the hands of men who made the winning of knowledge their special function or profession.
William Wickenden
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Someone once asked me what I want on my epitaph when I pass away. Just the words 'I tried.' That's what this game of life is all about. Trying. There's the tryers, the criers, and the liars.
Mickey Rooney -
This is life-and it is passing. What are we waiting for?
Richard L. Evans -
An empty frame, in which the picture is always changing, makes a statement about how time is always passing. It doesn't really stop, even in a single image. I t just feels that way.
Sarah Dessen -
He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us. I would never know from here, though. And time was passing. Crucial minutes and seconds, each one capable of changing everything.
Sarah Dessen -
There's not much you can do about time - it just keeps on passing. But experience? Don't tell me that. I'm not proud of it, but I don't have any sexual desire. And what sort of experience can a writer have if she doesn't feel passion? It'd be like a chef without an appetite.
Haruki Murakami -
The weeks go by so slow I almost think time passin backwards.
Winston Groom
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If I could repeat it, people passing by would be enlightened and go free.
Rumi -
Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.
Eric Mazur -
That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
Bradford Cox -
Marriage has been a way of attempting to ensure the replication of power and wealth from one generation of another, passing it down from men to men.
Rebecca Traister -
Goals have never defined me as a player. What has defined me is my impact on the team. If that means passing or playing defense to win, I'll do it.
Mia Hamm -
Arizonans should not be judged disdainfully and from a distance by people whose closest contacts with Hispanics are with fine men and women who trim their lawns and put plates in front of them at restaurants, not with illegal immigrants passing through their backyards at 3 A.M.
George Will
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"All is passing". When one realises this, he sits loose to this world of sorrow : This is the way of purity.
Gautama Buddha -
He strolled to the front door and stood watching, letting the picture of Felicity grave itself so deeply on his mind that when with the passing of time it would seem to other people that she had grown old and lost her beauty it would not seem so to him.
Elizabeth Goudge -
We’ve been trained to prefer being right to learning something, to prefer passing the test to making a difference, and most of all, to prefer fitting in with the right people, the people with economic power. Now it’s your turn to stand up and stand out.
Seth Godin -
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.
Russell Baker