Top 1200 Passing Through Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

I don't want my children to feel the same sense of failure I did growing up because they're not good at passing tests.

You don't just turn up and have a passing game. You can't sit back, you have to be 100 percent concentrated to make it work.

Felipe Anderson's got a good engine, pace, skill, passing ability and a decent shot on him.

Honestly, I want to make more music for the women. I rather have a show full of girls, but I still gotta talk about what I be personally going through, what I've gone through, and what the homies go through.

The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.

The pictures do not lie, but neither do they tell the whole story. They are merely a record of time passing, the outward evidence.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives.

In L.A. you can be quite isolated, but in London you can ride the Tube and are right in the thick of humanity and every type of person that you can imagine is passing by.

The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.

The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream.

I saw my bulky person in the windows of the passing storefronts and wondered, when will that man there find himself to be loved?

I think everyone, especially after the passing of a loved one, starts to hope that maybe there will be something better on the other side.

Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon.

I was shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of my sister, Joan Fontaine ... and I appreciate the many kind expressions of sympathy that we have received.

Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.

We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy.

Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this means we should be very careful what we use it for.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Delegating doesn't mean passing off work you don't enjoy, but letting your employees stretch their skills and judgment.

Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.

A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment.

Passing competitors always gives you a lift. It probably has a physical effect, too, because you get a surge of adrenaline.

Who wouldn't want to be the all-time passing leader in FCS? Or in school history? At the end of the day, if that's something I accomplish, that's awesome.

You feel sadness for time passing. New York is a city that keeps reinventing itself, and I love it so much.

Lord Rees-Mogg argues that the time for reconciliation in Tibet is passing with the looming departure of its spiritual leader.

After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig.

In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it.

I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it.

Beyond budget fights, the Obama second-term agenda was supposed to be about passing comprehensive immigration reform.

And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies.

I've been through a lot in my career. I've been through the ups, I've been through the downs. I've been through the highs and the lows.

Like vanishing dew, a passing apparition or the sudden flash of lightning -- already gone -- thus should one regard one's self.

Good friends are often our lifelines. Mine have seen me through heartbreak, through the deaths of loved ones, and through that phase in college when I was obsessed with denim jumpsuits and matching fingerless gloves.

In the first seat, in robe of various dyes, A noble wildness flashing from his eyes, Sat Shakespeare: in one hand a wand he bore, For mighty wonders fam'd in days of yore: The other held a globe, which to his will Obedient turn'd, and own'd the master's skill: Things of the noblest kind his genius drew, And look'd through nature at a single view: A loose he gave to his unbounded soul, And taught new lands to rise, new seas to roll; Call'd into being scenes unknown before, And passing nature's bounds, was something more.

Congress' passing of the omnibus spending bill without reading it shows more than anything why they can't be trusted.

Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.

The job of a legislator is much more fixing existing law, revising it, improving it, than it is passing something that doesn't exist.

And then comes unhappiness, and one does not become unhappy either. One says, 'A black cloud passing. I am the witness, the watcher.'

The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow.

Dunk, and people anywhere will ooh and aah. But you can wow a crowd in New York with ball handling and passing.

It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.

It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured.

George Harrison's passing was really sad, but it does make the afterlife seem much more attractive.

I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.

And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world.

All of you who have been through high dose psychedelic experiences know that it's very hard to carry stupid baggage through that keyhole. In fact you're lucky if you just get your soul and yourselves through and intact.

What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.

Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones.

When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others.

In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

His (God) love is not a passing fancy or superficial emotion; it is a profound and unshakable commitment that seeks what is best for us.

My journey through life has led me through both light and dark places, and it's because of those experiences that I have learned how to work through my character defects and to help others do the same.

History teaches us no race, no people, no nation has ever been freed through cowardice, through cringing, through bowing and scraping, but all that has been achieved to the glory of mankind, to the glory and honour of races and nations was through the manly determination and effort of those who lead and those who are led.

Passing in any crowd are secret people whose hidden response to beauty is the desire to tear it into bleeding meat.

Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.

Just because the years are passing doesn't mean that the quality of our lives must automatically go downhill.

After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine.

The educational system is pretty much geared to passing the next exam. You're educated to pass tests and not to understand.

A man descending is propelled by inertia; the only initiative left him is whether or not he decides to enjoy the passing scene.