Quotes about Passage

A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie. Votes: 3

N.Y. Chamber of Commerce Urges Passage of Silver For War Use. Votes: 3

Passage Vero-Dodat - I started my company on this passage. It feels as much home as it can! Votes: 3

I've been wanting to write a book about what goes into creating a novel, and the story behind 'A Passage to India' is especially interesting. Votes: 3

These poems are a mental sketch as formed / Passage by passage of light and shade / Maintained and preserved to this point / Brought together in paper and mineral ink Votes: 3

I'm still an English professor at Rice University here in Houston. They've been very generous in letting me on a very long leash to just work on 'The Passage' and its sequels. Votes: 3

The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment; but it has chapters of clear and triumphant beauty, and above all it makes us wonder, what will he write next? Votes: 3

Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years. Votes: 3

Of all the hot liquors, I regard buttered rum as the worst. I believe that the drinking of it should be permitted only in the "Northwest Passage" and, even there, only by highly imaginative and overenthusiastic novelists. Votes: 3

Passage of time can be mind-numbing to figure out in a screenplay. It's the easiest thing to do in prose, not just by writing 'four years later', but you can shift time in a sentence or two. Votes: 3

Endurance involves much more than putting up with a situation; Patient Endurance is more than pacing up and down within the cell of circumstance. True Enduring represents not merely the passage of time, . . . but the Passage of Soul. Votes: 3

The only requisite to entry into the Middle Passage is to have discovered that one does not know who one is, that there are no rescuers, no Mommy or Daddy, and that one's fellow travelers will do well to survive themselves. Votes: 3

In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration. Votes: 3

Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice. Votes: 3

Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice." Votes: 3

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be. Votes: 2

Old age and the passage of time teach all things. Votes: 1

Do not walk through time without leaving worthy evidence of your passage. Votes: 1

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. Votes: 1

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. Votes: 1

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it. Votes: 1

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. Votes: 1

It amazes me that the most Christian funerals are the most barbaric funeral rites of passage that are celebrated anywhere in the world. Votes: 1

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches. Votes: 1

The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968. Votes: 1

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement. Votes: 1

Nobody paid any attention career-wise to me in America until 'Bronson.' It gave me a calling card and passage into America, where I've always wanted to work. Votes: 1

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me. Votes: 1

The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth. Votes: 1

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full. Votes: 1

A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us. Votes: 1

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old. Votes: 1

From the Medicare prescription drug plan to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the passage of No Child Left Behind, President Bush presided over a major expansion of the reach of government. Votes: 1

Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath. Votes: 1

Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications. Votes: 1

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now. Votes: 1

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. Votes: 1

Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation. Votes: 1

Probably the one Bible passage that is read by Jews and Roman Catholics, Protestants, Islam, more than any other chapter is Psalm 23. And in Psalm 23 there is a verse that says, 'Surely, yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.' Votes: 1

For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply 'get over it.' Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into silence and are afraid to speak up. Let's break this silence and end school bullying. Votes: 1

The message of Jesus is summed up partly in the Sermon on the Mount, and partly when he begins his ministry and quotes the passage from Isaiah: 'I have come to set free the prisoners and restore sight to the blind.' And certainly, his mission is also to bring hope. It was to heal people, to befriend the outcast. Votes: 1

Cinema was my rite of passage. Votes: 0

Death is the least civilized rite of passage. Votes: 0

Memories carry thoughts through the passage of time. Votes: 0

I'm only interested in rites of passage stories. Votes: 0

The mere passage of time makes us all exiles. Votes: 0

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage Votes: 0

The worse the passage the more welcome the port. Votes: 0

Life is a passage through a museum of beauty. Votes: 0

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time. Votes: 0

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. Votes: 0

Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time. Votes: 0

Getting a tattoo should hurt. It's a rite of passage. Votes: 0

Sometimes I feel that 'Footloose' is the rite of passage. Votes: 0

Ritual is the passage way of the soul into the Infinite. Votes: 0

Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage. Votes: 0

Every door is another passage, another boundary we have to go beyond. Votes: 0

To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing. Votes: 0

The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through. Votes: 0

It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground. Votes: 0

Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter. Votes: 0

Life is one passage and then you keep moving into another state. Votes: 0

The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains. Votes: 0

House passage is good news for the Northwest corner and our environment. Votes: 0

...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life. Votes: 0

Through each passage and each season, may you trust the goodness f life. Votes: 0

Door of passage to the other side, the soul frees itself in stride. Votes: 0

My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road. Votes: 0

Refusing to teach a passage of Scripture is just as wrong as abusing it Votes: 0

It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money. Votes: 0

America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts. Votes: 0

Every fool in error can find a passage of scripture to back him up Votes: 0

Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global... Votes: 0

White means the strength of fragility and the fragility of the passage of time. Votes: 0

A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life. Votes: 0

A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams. Votes: 0

On my passage thither, I discovered nothing remarkable in the features of the country. Votes: 0

Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash. Votes: 0

The passage of time has not altered the capacity of the Redeemer to change lives. Votes: 0

death - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience. Votes: 0

Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time. Votes: 0

How many human eyes...had snatched glimpses of their secret anatomies, down the passage of years? Votes: 0

A memorized scripture becomes an enduring friend that does not weaken with the passage of time. Votes: 0

Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays. Votes: 0

Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time. Votes: 0

Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage. Votes: 0

The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless Votes: 0

We have got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage. Votes: 0

You look older." "Yes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person. Votes: 0

The fifth gift is Hope. Through each passage and season, may you trust the goodness of life. Votes: 0

The majority of people who keel over dead at concerts are killed by a long trumpet passage. Votes: 0

Do not look for a secret passage in nature because nature is already the secret passage itself! Votes: 0

The digital artwork is characterized not by the technology which delivers it, but by the "passage" itself. Votes: 0

I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds. Votes: 0

Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked. Votes: 0

I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance. Votes: 0

Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage. Votes: 0

Becoming internally empowered shifts a person's center of gravity from external to internal- a mark of spiritual passage. Votes: 0

Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good. Votes: 0

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. Votes: 0

Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside. Votes: 0

somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do Votes: 0

A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters. Votes: 0

The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it. Votes: 0

The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita. Votes: 0

I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality. Votes: 0

For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it. Votes: 0

Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest. Votes: 0

[During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight. Votes: 0

It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young. Votes: 0

90% of what is considered "impossible" is, in fact, possible. The other 10% will become possible with the passage of time & technology. Votes: 0

If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right. Votes: 0

There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it. Votes: 0

Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn't clear ... was toward what place, what reality, that passage led. Votes: 0

The moment you come to a passage of scripture and say, "Oh, I know this one already," you're in deep trouble. Votes: 0

I have never been prouder to be a lifelong New Yorker than I am today with the passage of marriage equality. Votes: 0

How science dwindles, and how volumes swell, How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun! Votes: 0

Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born. Votes: 0

All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time. Votes: 0

[I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed. Votes: 0

Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood. Votes: 0

Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time. Votes: 0

We just tend to live our lives without even knowing that there are certain principles that enhance a better passage through life. Votes: 0

Childbirth being one's most significant life passage, those close to us when we open to birth a baby will never be forgotten. Votes: 0

The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life. Votes: 0

We are not heavenly destined for a particular road; every road is our destiny; every path and every passage is our fate. Votes: 0

The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief. Votes: 0

No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's. Votes: 0

Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden. Votes: 0

Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time. Votes: 0

To be human is to be aware of the passage of time; no concept lies closer to the core of our consciousness. Votes: 0

They were the books to read, 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings.' A rite of passage going through life. Votes: 0

I don't expect that because I was successful in one field that I will then get a ride of passage into another. Votes: 0

Adjusting to the passage of time is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches. Votes: 0

With the passage of years, not all of Dicken's readers remained infatuated with his pathos. One generation's sublimity became another generation's kitsch. Votes: 0

Your pain is a divine rite of passage through which you will be reborn as a being of strength, wisdom and purpose. Votes: 0

Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Votes: 0

whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like. Votes: 0

Music, at the end of the day, is communicating something - emotion, a feeling, a rite of passage, where you are in life. Votes: 0

Afford every soul you encounter the wide and free passage they need to give birth to the dear expressions they feel are important. Votes: 0

[The passage of the Sugar Act] set people a thinking, in six months, more than they had done in their whole lives before. Votes: 0

Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly. Votes: 0

Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage. Votes: 0

I have learned that one should say "Peace!" to those who shout their hatred for one's being and presence or at one's passage. Votes: 0

I am growing stronger. I am a stone being excavated by the slow passage of water; I am wood charred by a fire. Votes: 0

You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life. Votes: 0

No Christian is abandoned at the moment of death. The angels are the ushers, and our passage to heaven is under their escort. Votes: 0

All things pass...Perhaps the passage of time is a kind of healing, or a kind of salvation granted equally to all people. Votes: 0

Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break. Votes: 0

Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world. Votes: 0

Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity. Votes: 0

A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride. Votes: 0

Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side. Votes: 0

In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication. Votes: 0

That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense. Votes: 0

...and the hermit's spirit detaches itself, ever so gently, and begins its lonely passage upward, to find its final resting place among the stars. Votes: 0

The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night. Votes: 0

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence. Votes: 0

I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage. Votes: 0

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage. Votes: 0

The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes. Votes: 0

The passage of time is likely to make high-speed rail more and more desirable, making it critical that politicians of today think ahead to tomorrow. Votes: 0

What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses. Votes: 0

Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. A beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the passage of time. Votes: 0

Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas? Votes: 0

We store in memory only images of value. The value may be lost over the passage of time, but that's the implacable judgment of feeling. Votes: 0

...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way? Votes: 0

Actors do have good and bad sides. It's because the passage down the birth canal distorts the face. People born by caesarean section are more symmetrical. Votes: 0

I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much. Votes: 0

As labor creates the wealth of the country, we demand the passage of such laws as may be necessary to protect it in all its rights. Votes: 0

The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct. Votes: 0

only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it. Votes: 0

[I'm concerned with] aesthetics and this idea of how the passage between life and death goes. I can visually present that by borrowing this Buddhist statue. Votes: 0

I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. Votes: 0

Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking it's passage for some reason. Votes: 0

From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story. Votes: 0

I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a part of this country. Votes: 0

I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely disappear. Votes: 0

There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are another. Votes: 0

When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves? Votes: 0

When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty. Votes: 0

The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage of time, and forgiveness is everything. Votes: 0

Of course [photography] cannot create, nor express all we want to express. But it can be a witness of our passage on earth, like a notebook. Votes: 0

One thing the passage of time has shown me is that you never know how you'll behave in a situation until you're in that situation yourself. Votes: 0

House passes #dadt (don't ask don't tell) repeal. A step fwd on equality 4 gay Americans in military. History will judge those who tried 2 block passage on this. Votes: 0

Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual and spiritual life of maturity. Votes: 0

A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until it has perished. Votes: 0

But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history. Votes: 0

Perhaps sunlight had always been luminous, and doorways signs of greater passage than that of one room to another. But she’d not noticed it until now. Votes: 0

RESPIRATOR, n. An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth of an inhabitant of London, whereby to filter the visible universe in its passage to the lungs. Votes: 0

But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nations history. Votes: 0

Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed. Votes: 0

As many as two out of every three Europeans who came to the colonies were debtors on arrival: they paid for their passage by becoming indentured servants. Votes: 0

No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party time. Votes: 0

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author? Votes: 0

Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people. Votes: 0

While there are many influences on gas prices in America, I believe the passage of a national energy bill will help relieve this burden on our country. Votes: 0

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author? Votes: 0

We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number. Votes: 0

I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing. Votes: 0

Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house. Votes: 0

I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that. Votes: 0

A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice to find out what it means. Votes: 0

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.' Votes: 0

Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man. Votes: 0

A good plan will therefore include alternative actions, the choice between them being left open until the passage of time indicates which is feasible and which is not. Votes: 0

It is our ability to forget our problems, through the process of thought, rather than the passage of time, that frees us from the circumstances of our past. Votes: 0

The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow. Votes: 0

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess. Votes: 0

You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility. Votes: 0

I wanted to breathe new life into the timeless trend of past, present and future. These unique designs celebrate the bride and groom's passage through their new life together. Votes: 0

Those who refuse to look at or give expression to the dark side of life are in denial-fear preventing passage through the door of growth, truth and, ultimately, wisdom. Votes: 0

They regarded our passage not at all, and by the afternoon I felt no more significant than an ant. I had never thought to be disdained by a tree. Votes: 0

Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused, very likable, strictly business, and really sharp. Votes: 0

In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow. Votes: 0

Krystal's slow passage up the school had resembled the passage of a goat through the body of a boa constrictor, being highly visible and uncomfortable for both parties concerned. Votes: 0

Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it. Votes: 0

Do not forget, read a passage from the Gospel every day. It is the power that changes us, that transforms us, it changes life and it changes the heart. Votes: 0

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with the passage of time. Votes: 0

Feverishly we cleared away the remaining last scraps of rubbish on the floor of the passage before the doorway, until we had only the clean sealed doorway before us. Votes: 0

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity. If a man should consider the nicety of the passage of a piece of bread down his throat, he would starve. Votes: 0

In the closeness of the passage, the queen could smell the other woman's perfume, a musky scent that spoke of moss and earth and wildflowers. Under it, she smelled ambition. Votes: 0

We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies. Votes: 0

After clearing 9 metres of the descending passage, in about the middle of the afternoon, we came upon a second sealed doorway, which was almost the exact replica of the first. Votes: 0

Neel takes a sharp breath and I know exactly what it means. It means: I have waited my whole life to walk through a secret passage built into a bookshelf. Votes: 0

After a while, though, you realize that a whole slew of young singer-songwriter piano players are getting compared to you. That's when you feel the passage of time is occurring. Votes: 0

The Constitution's Preamble, its renowned introductory passage, was written by a man with a peg-leg. Which, if you think about it, gives our Constitution hardly a leg to stand on. Votes: 0

Presidents Truman and Nixon left office under dark clouds of scandal and with abysmal levels of support, but with the passage of time, both have been reassessed far more positively. Votes: 0

Foreseeing the needs of His children, a loving Heavenly Father placed directions and rescuers along their way. He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to make safe passage possible and visible. Votes: 0

Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships. Votes: 0

O harmless Death! whom still the valiant brave, The wise expect, the sorrowful invite, And all the good embrace, who know the grave A short dark passage to eternal light. Votes: 0

As with the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, the origins of Shearith Israel trace back to a small group of religious freedom-seekers and a treacherous ocean passage to the New World. Votes: 0

The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet. Votes: 0

Meditation on a passage of scripture... led a young boy into a grove of trees to commune with his heavenly Father. That is what opened the heavens in this dispensation Votes: 0

I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me - I still watch silent films. Votes: 0

Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time. Votes: 0

That was excellently observed', say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken. Votes: 0

He who is well acquainted with the text of scripture, is a distinguished theologian. For a Bible passage or text is of more value than the comments of four authors. Votes: 0

We see in these swift and skillful travelers a symbol of our life, which seeks to be a pilgrimage and a passage on this earth for the way of heaven. Votes: 0

Saul Bellow has that character in Henderson the Rain King say: "I want, I want, I want!"9 I remember reading this passage years ago and thinking, yes, that's the human. Votes: 0

Idiom is larger than geography it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the language of a passage, saying the ancient unchanging particulars. Votes: 0

Today we are raised with the notion that to be secure is to be financially autonomous. Amassing wealth is viewed as the primary rite of passage to a secure, autonomous existence. Votes: 0

My agency in promoting the passage of the National Banking Act was the greatest mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly which affects every interest in the country Votes: 0

Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown. Votes: 0

Life. Unfair and painful at times. But always moving forward, always shifting,changing, with times relentless passage smoothing down jagged parts until it no longer hurts quite so much to breathe. Votes: 0

The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious; from thesleep of passions to their rage. Votes: 0

Strange priests are they who never straightly walk But all aslant through sideways passage stalk Who never seek their goals in forward lines But move askew as fraught with sly designs Votes: 0

If you worry, you are a worrier because your mind is saturated with worry thoughts. To counteract these, mark every passage in your Bible that speaks of faith, hope, and courage. Votes: 0

There is no more dramatic proof of the death of the Left than the passage of its central vision global democratic revolution into the hands of those who call themselves conservatives. Votes: 0

Hidden behind man is God. Just give him a little way, a little passage, to come through you. That is creativity. Allowing God to happen is creativity. Creativity is a religious state. Votes: 0

Star canto: star speaks light, and world to world Repeats the passage of the universe To God; the name of Christ--the one great word Well worth all languages in earth or heaven. Votes: 0

With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the color of our blood and the salt of our tears. Votes: 0

Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act. Votes: 0

I knew it was happening, but I never paid much attention to it . . . just to the passage of time. Something new always slowly changes right in front of your eyes-it just happens. Votes: 0

I will outlaw bullshit. After the passage of this law the patriarchy will inevitably start to crumble as will the concept of war itself which is largely a large load of bullshit. Votes: 0

If the bill remains what it is now, I will not be able to support a cloture motion before final passage. Therefore I will try to stop the passage of the bill. Votes: 0

He pivoted on one buttock and broke wind. Dukhi leaned back to allow it free passage, wondering what penalty might adhere to the offence of interfering with the waft of brahminical flatus. Votes: 0

I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation. Votes: 0

While ice is not really alive, it is certainly animate. It exists in an dynamic state of perpetual vibration, flux and movement. Enjoy its existence, and its safe passage in the mountains. Votes: 0

It's time for compassionate Americans to send a wake-up call to their members of Congress and demand passage of legislation to end the wholesale slaughter of America's horses once and for all. Votes: 0

A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization. Votes: 0

Existence is governed by its own law. Here, the things impermanent by natureare bound to meet their end. Hence, with the passage of time, not only Ravana'sLanka but "Krishna's" Dwarka also sinks. Votes: 0

I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence. Votes: 0

He [Jesus] did not say, 'You will never have a rough passage, you will never be over-strained, you will never feel uncomfortable,' but he did say, 'You will never be overcome. Votes: 0

Natural disasters in Bolivia have been getting worse with the passage of time. It's brought about by a system: the capitalist system, the unbridled industrialization of the resources of the Planet Earth. Votes: 0

I think everyone starts in the mailroom at some point! It's a right of passage. Your boss has to throw something at you and order you around for at least two years. Votes: 0

The fruit of youth or of the grape, the transitory magic of the brief passage from darkness to darkness - the old illusion that truth and beauty were in some way entwined." Votes: 0

Before passage of this [Federal Reserve] Act, the New York Bankers could only dominate the reserves of New York. Now, we are able to dominate the bank reserves of the entire country. Votes: 0

The first time I thought about attempting a body suspension was after watching a documentary on rites-of-passage ceremonies from other cultures. I was completely intrigued by what these people put their bodies through. Votes: 0

Only now are increasing numbers of political and social scientists beginning to realize that Kelso's theories provide a private-property-based alternative to the imminent passage of a government-distributed "guaranteed income" or "negative income tax." Votes: 0

Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution. Votes: 0

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere. Votes: 0

I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended. Votes: 0

In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings. Votes: 0

Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love. Votes: 0

I've always loved watches my whole life. When I was growing up, I always thought of having a great watch as that next step - of making it, of a rite of passage. Votes: 0

I wish I had the power to flip my reality upside down like an hourglass, and that life wasn't a finite affair, but rather a perpetually recurring passage through a hole in time. Votes: 0

The passage of time is a continuing thing. At 18, youre going to live forever, and you are definitely not at 52, so that is a recurring topic. I still think its the main stuff. Votes: 0

Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption. Votes: 0

I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage has become necessary because in western developed countries we've become very comfort-addicted. Votes: 0

When Johnson decided to fight for passage of the law John F. Kennedy had put before Congress in June 1963 banning segregation in places of public accommodation, he believed he was taking considerable political risks. Votes: 0

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go. Votes: 0

The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence. Votes: 0

With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before. Votes: 0

The most accomplished literary work would be reduced to nothing by carping criticism, if the author would listen to all critics and allow every one to erase the passage which pleases him the least. Votes: 0

For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that alludes to the passage of time and to the theater of life. Votes: 0

Unnoticed, the passage has occurred; as I brood, autumn dusk dewdrops fall on my pillow. The voices of insects and the deer by the fence, as one, disturb me to tears this autumn dusk. Votes: 0

I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage, but that - don't go to the funeral before the day of the funeral. Votes: 0

You know that passage in the Bible that says, "And the meek shall inherit the Earth"? Always wondered if that was mistranslated. Perhaps it actually says, "And the geek shall inherit the Earth. Votes: 0

He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time. Votes: 0

Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation. Votes: 0

Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: 'Stop vamping.' It has remained a caution. Votes: 0

Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion. Votes: 0

Remember: ego can create misery, ego can create anguish, ego can create hate, ego can create jealousy. Ego can never become a vehicle for the divine, it can never become the passage for the beyond. Votes: 0

There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through. When that happens, the man who knows must strike before reckoning the consequences. Votes: 0

And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved. Votes: 0

Like the diminishing beauty returns for a facially paralyzed Botox addict, the more forcefully we attempt to stop the passage of time, the less available we are to the very moment we seek to preserve. Votes: 0

Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time. Votes: 0

Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage to the nasal cavity, and below, the passage to the larynx. Votes: 0

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time. Votes: 0

In the area of national security, I urge the swift passage of an anti-terrorism law that will protect rather than subvert, enhance rather than weaken, the rights and liberties that terrorism precisely threatens with extinction. Votes: 0

Except for our higher order of minds we are like the little moles under the earth carrying out blindly the work of digging, thinking our own dark passage-ways constitute all there is to the world. Votes: 0