Passes Quotes

What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.

In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.

You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.

So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it's not like it's a religion for me. It's not like I consider I'm polluted if somehow some bit of milk or cheese or something passes my lips.

In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.

If you love someone, you say it, right then, out loud. Otherwise, the moment just passes you by.

Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.

The lucky person passes for a genius.

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.

Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.

Someone sits at a table or lies on a sofa while staring motionless at a wall or ceiling. Once in a while this person writes down seven lines, only to cross out one of them 15 minutes later, and then another hour passes, during which nothing happens. Who could stand to watch this kind of thing?

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver.

I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes.

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.

The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.