Pass Quotes

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

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

I can't explain why one wants to pass a particular sort of pain onto other people, but you do.

I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.

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.

I think there's bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill.

I don't want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta.

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.

There are some moments in life, some feelings; one can only point to them and pass by.

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.

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

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

Time will pass and seasons will come and go.

The women who pass away before they receive Social Security, for them this is nothing but a tax from which they or their family will never receive a benefit.

You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.

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

I just don't think you pass on a great quarterback if you have the opportunity. If need be, you can trade it away.

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.

Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass. Cotton went on, but daddy bumped me in the rear and my car went right into the wall.

I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others.

Three things can happen when you pass and two of 'em are bad.

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

Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.

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.

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.