Passed Quotes

We know that we have passed from death into life, because we love... 1 John 3:14

What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love.

His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought;

for causes which are unpenetrated.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.

I’ve learned that empowered thinking is a choice- a state of mind.

It’s the ability to enjoy a rose with no mind of the thorn. It’s the ability to celebrate a life even though it has passed. It’s seeing the flowers even during a rainstorm.

There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before.

There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

A major threshold is passed when you mature enough to acknowledge what drives you, and to take the wheel and steer it.

I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.

Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.

If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility.

My dream has come true, now that I have passed it on.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

There's a quality of legend about freaks.

Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.

Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites.

A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age.

Nearly two weeks have passed since Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast, and while we are still dealing with the tremendous devastation - and will be for quite some time - we are also seeing increased signs of recovery and help in our region.

When Toots finally could breathe again and the blood returned to his brain, he recalled that he had not passed or been passed by Jackie at any time in the race. Toots never used foul language but he came close that night. Jackie paid.

I am glad to learn that the Parliament Bill has been passed for the Darlington Railway.

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

The Republic needed to be passed through chastening, purifying fires of adversity and suffering: so these came and did their work and the verdure of a new national life springs greenly, luxuriantly, from their ashes.

I am of the opinion that all who can should vote for the most intelligent, honest, and conscientious men eligible to office, irrespective of former party opinions, who will endeavour to make the new constitutions and the laws passed under them as beneficial as possible to the true interests, prosperity, and liberty of all classes and conditions of the people.

The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal Constitution or in an act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof. There is no undefined residuum of power which he can exercise because it seems to him to be in the public interest.

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

My time has been passed viciously and agreeably;

at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that Carpe Diem is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans -- born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.

In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth.

Aristocracy has three successive ages.

First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.

There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true.

The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.