Passages Quotes

• No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Secret, Depth, World

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• We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

  Lauren Hutton

  Birthday, Growing Up, Wrinkles

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.

  Vivien Leigh

  Girl, Mother, Voice

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• My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

  Edward Gibbon

  Obscurity, Language, Obscenity

  Edward Gibbon (1900). “The Memoirs of the Life of Edward Gibbon with Various Observations and Excursions”

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• I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

  Ed Koch

  Politics, Firsts, Bedtime

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• Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

  Richard Dawkins

  Business, Believe, Power

  "The Root of All Evil?". Documentary, January 2006.

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• A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.

  Maya Lin

  Artist, Journey, Space

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• I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.

  Pete Townshend

  Stories, Rite, Rite Of Passage

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• I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.

  Amy Grant

  Years, Found, Passage Of Time

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• Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage.

  Tom Brokaw

  Heartbroken, Guy, Old Friends

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• I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.

  Orlando Bloom

  Thinking, Trying, Cracks

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• Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

  Arthur Ashe

  Trust, Sports, Reality

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• I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.

  John Irving

  Character, Stories, Fans

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• After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.

  T. S. Eliot

  Lying, Ambition, Knowledge

  "Gerontion" l. 33 (1920)

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• The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

  Esther Williams

  Wisdom, Teaching, Athlete

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• I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Journey, Wish

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.209, Courier Corporation

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• Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Blessing, Men, Rocks

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.38, VM eBooks

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• In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Two, Cost, Literature

  Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.59, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage to the nasal cavity, and below, the passage to the larynx.

  Roman Jakobson

  Mouths, Remember, Crossroads

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• What's wonderful is to read the different translations - some done in 1600 and some in 1900 - of the same passage. It's fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.

  Bill Vaughan

  Two, Done, Way

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• One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings.

  Satish Kumar

  Book, Journey, Finding Yourself

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• In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs.

  William Bligh

  Summer, Years, Wind

  William Bligh (1838). “A narrative of the mutiny on board his majesty's ship Bounty”, p.12

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• The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

  Pete Townshend

  Writing, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration.

  John L. Phillips

  Mean, Space, People

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• Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag.

  Larry Craig

  Cutting, Law, Freedom Of Speech

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