Top 1200 Passing Moments Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means of passing time.

It’s not about keeping up the population, it’s about passing on who we are and what we've learned, so things keep going. So we don’t just end.

It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.

Being through the England set-up since I was a young lad, passing was the style of football I grew up with.

This is what I have come to know: Our past is never passed and there is no such thing as moving on. But there is this telling and there is such a thing as passing through.

If we get the good that belongs to us here and now, we must extract the sweetness of each passing minute while it is ours. That is the real art of living in the today.

Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.

The spirit must be felt so intensely that it has power to call others in passing, for it must pass, not stop in the pictures.

Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?

Days passing with discovery are the days of real happiness.

We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.

With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.

Keep doing the right. God is building character in you, and you are passing that test. Remember, the greater the struggle, the greater the reward.

I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.

Passing away" is written on the world and all the world contains.

Congress first took action against steroids by passing The Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990.

Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.

I think there's a little confusion between humor and 'gross' passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable, because they aren't the same thing.

I started finding hearts in things - whether it was like, a tree I was passing, a straw wrapper on the ground; I think the heart has one continuous line, which is very powerful.

When in the world are we going to begin to live as if we understood that this is life? This is our time, our day...and it is passing. What are we waiting for?

With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons.

My father's passing comes with sorrow and grief for me, for my mother, for my brothers, and for my sisters. He was a great fire who burned bright, and we lived in his light and warmth for so very long.

The manuscript may go forth from the writer to return with a faithfulness passing the faithfulness of the boomerang or the homing pigeon.

I'm kinda tired. I was up all night trying to round off infinity. Then I got bored and went out and painted passing lines on curved roads.

In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time.

Barcelona players are passing the ball at least 25 times to reach the goal, while Real Madrid's Xabi Alonso is doing this all in a single pass.

The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor . . . I do not deplore the passing of these crude old days.

The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.

Nolan Ryan helped me with baseball, and my dad passing away gave me a bigger heart.

Everybody just wants to appreciate time as it's passing, to be in the moment. It's the hardest thing to do. You're either in the unknown future that you're working toward, or you're in the past that becomes a little abstract.

The Swedish team plays very differently from Arsenal. There is more freedom with Arsenal and they play a passing game.

I don't think about the passing of time, but I think it would be great if I can have fun acting while thinking of what I can do in the future.

Communication isn't just directing a guy on what to do: it's passing the information along to the guy that's next to you, and that's where we make the calls come to life.

There are no ordinary moments.

The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.

Life is like an escalator. You see, it carries you on regardless. And you might as well enjoy the view and seize every opportunity while you're passing. Otherwise, it'll be too late.

They are not the same - Xavi is more the man of passing and Iniesta can dribble more - but they have great vision, they are important to the defence and the attack.

Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.

Watching your children growing up makes you aware of time passing. You think, 'Oh, God, look at them now! He won't be like this for much longer.'

History is not our guide, it is not our friend. It is a passing stranger, one which shadows legend, sprinkling it with the seeds of truth.

This whole theory of alienation that intellectuals have been passing on, really is just to stop a lot of ham acting. If you fill something with a proper emotion, it didn't worry him at all.

You staying home all alone on New Year's Eve? Unthinkable. Take my advice the countdown should be shared with someone, or it's just another set of numbers passing you by.

According to some tallies, since 1776, the United States has been at war 93 percent of its existence, passing through a mere 21 years of peace.

This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.

We will remember UPA 2, if at all, it seems, as that period when things went mysteriously wrong - for the bribe-taking, buck-passing, foot-dragging, and general sense of paralysis.

This was one of those special occasions when I could actually feel the inner appreciation of the beauty of the moment passing like an electric current through the brush in my hand.

In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life maybe empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves.

I feel like my life is just passing me by like two ships in the night. And I have missed both boats.

Does 'Jersey Shore' make me sad for humanity that this is what's passing for entertainment? Well, this is a business, and if that's what millions of people want to watch, I can't fault someone for producing it.

I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.

I commend you, however, for passing the time in as merry a manner as you possibly could; it is assuredly better to go laughing than crying thro' the rough journey of life.

Passing through the fire of meditation, everything that is not your authentic reality, everything that is borrowed, will be burned away.

Without God, life is like a school without a teacher. It is a wire with no current passing through it; it is a body with no soul.

At moments we are all artists.

Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply into things to begin with.

You put a real tough tight end with good hands in the hash area, and there won't be anyone who can cover him. Then you really control the passing game.

Enough of passivity and passing time while waiting for the boy friend, the girl friend, the Goddess, or the Revolution.

I started finding hearts in things - whether it was like, a tree I was passing, a straw wrapper on the ground, I think the heart has one continuous line, which is very powerful.

Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.

I can't say I'm happy to be talking about John Ritter and his passing. In my 21 years of Entertainment Tonight, this really was one of the most shocking and sad things to have happened.