Passes Quotes

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

You know, I still love the innocent parts of the game. I love hitting tennis balls. I love seeing the young guys do well. I'll still have a lot of friends to watch. I'll miss the relationships probably the most. As time passes, I'll probably miss the tennis more.

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates.

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth.

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.

Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away.

Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes away!

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.

Everyone comes up to me saying, 'Cooee, Julie! Hello!' as if I know them. Of course I don't bloody know them. Am I flummoxed by it? Sometimes. I think, 'Ooh, love, go easy.' For a time, I did feel this pressure that I had to be funny, but it passes.

If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

What is lovely never dies, put passes into other loveliness.

Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes to go in here or there. We always had to somehow talk our way in.

Democracy passes into despotism.

Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.

How quickly passes away the glory of this world.

Time passes faster and faster, but with every project I always want to find the next challenge and the next challenge is just as exciting as the previous one.

I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.

Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.

Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you're a celebrity because people care.

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.