Passings Quotes & Sayings

The Fate of the Earth, points — Michio Kaku

Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the time when they need them. Cosmic forces guide such passings-along. — Erica Jong

All things are possible, ... Except the passing of regret. — David Gemmell

The Open Road goes to the used-car lot. — Louis Simpson

I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask? — George Gissing

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

You can't get from A to Z by passing up B. — Nick Saban

The spirit must be felt so intensely that it has power to call others in passing, for it must pass, not stop in the pictures ... — Emily Carr

None of us can choose the manner of our passing. — David Gemmell

The environment is not just around you, it's passing through you. — Michael Pollan

And like a passing thought, she fled In light away. — Robert Burns

The days followed one another patiently. Right back at the beginning of the multiverse they had tried all passing at the same time, and it hadn't worked. — Terry Pratchett

Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing. — Albert Einstein

With each passing moment, a Soul sets off to find Itself. — Rumi

A very single fact could emerge into many versions of truth,
depends on the number of eyewitnesses and interpretations. — Toba Beta

For me, this is when the act of watching transforms into the act of witnessing.
To witness something implies a responsiveness, the response/ability of the viewer toward the performer. It is radically different from what we might call the 'consuming' gaze that says 'here, you entertain me, I bought a ticket, and I'm going to sit back and watch.' This traditional gaze doesn't want to get involved, doesn't want to give anything back. — Ann Cooper Albright

The Swedes have coined the term 'management by perkele' to portray the Finnish managerial approach. Instead of collectively pondering all the possible alternatives and letting every member of the staff from the cleaner to the MD voice their views, as the Swedes do, the Finns act swiftly and don't waste time on the decision-making process. If something isn't happening quickly enough, it is necessary for the top managers to slam their fists on the table and yell, 'Perkele!' Repeatedly, if necessary. — Tarja Moles

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough
Without your woe. No path is wholly rough. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Writer is a miner; he works in the gloomy places like a miner to get the precious material. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The particular verbal freedom of SF, coupled with the corrective process that allows the whole range of the physically explainable universe, can produce the most violent leaps of imagery. For not only does it throw us worlds away, it specifies how we got there. — Samuel R. Delany

I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die. — Robert Menzies

For a film to be viable, it has to survive this process of scrutiny. I think most filmmakers have obsessive-compulsive tendencies and would be completely unemployable in any other job - so it's great to be able to channel your psychological anomalies into something productive and creative. — James Marsh

Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction? — Virginia Woolf

Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history. — Samuel Johnson

With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more. — Amy Tan

What can I say, I'm a sucker for abandoned stuff, misplaced stuff, forgotten stuff, any old stuff which despite the light of progress and all that, still vanishes every day like shadows at noon, goings unheralded, passings unourned, well, you get the drift. — Mark Z. Danielewski

Even now as the graves of these women went untended, and their passings unmourned, the seeds they had scattered turned the hillsides red and orange from May to September. Some called the pirates' bounty flame trees, but to us they were known as flamboyant trees, for no one could ignore their glorious blooms, with flowers that were larger than a man's open hand. Every time I saw them I thought of these lost women. That was what happened if you waited for love. — Alice Hoffman

Is she not passing fair? — William Shakespeare

If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now? — C.S. Lewis