Passing Through Quotes - Page 6

All the difference between men and angels is, men are passing through the day of trial that angels have already passed through.

Brigham Young

Angel, Men, Differences

"Journal of Discourses, Vol. 9-10". Book by Brigham Young, p. 102, 1862.

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Someone who really wants to discover themselves has to be particularly careful about the use and abuse of power. But even your average human being just passing through another life has to be careful.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Average, Abuse

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The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Taken, Thinking, Voice

Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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I believe in the autobiographical concept only to the degree that I am able to put onto film all that's passing through my head at the moment of shooting.

Michelangelo Antonioni

Believe, Degrees, Shooting

Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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[On swingers:] They have gone from Puritanism into promiscuity without passing through sensuality.

Molly Haskell

Sex, Gone, Passing

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From a constitutional point of view George W. Bush passing through the Patriot Act is no worse than Obama renewing it.

Naomi Wolf

Views, Patriot, Passing

Source: www.truth-out.org

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A theory of personal resurrection or reincarnation of the individual is untenable when we but pause to consider the magnitude of the idea. On the contrary, I must believe that rather than the survival of all, we must look for survival only in the spirit of the good we have done in passing through.Once obsolete, an automobile is thrown to the scrap heap. Once here and gone, the human life has likewise served its purpose. If it has been a good life, it has been sufficient. There is no need for another.

Luther Burbank

Good Life, Believe, Ideas

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As Popa penetrates deeper into his life, with book after book, it begins to look like a Universe passing through a Universe. It is one of the most exciting things in modern poetry, to watch this journey being made.

Ted Hughes

Book, Journey, Watches

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A good, finished scandal, fully armed and equipped, such as circulates in the world, is rarely the production of a single individual, or even of a single coterie. It sees the light in one; is rocked and nurtured in another; is petted, developed, and attains its growth in a third; and receives its finishing touches only after passing through a multitude of hands. It is a child that can count a host of fathers--all ready to disown it.

Sophie Swetchine

Children, Father, Light

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He rose and turned toward the lights of town. The tidepools bright as smelterpots among the dark rocks where the phosphorescent seacrabs clambered back. Passing through the salt grass he looked back. The horse had not moved. A ship's light winked in the swells. The colt stood against the horse with its head down and the horse was watching, out there past men's knowing, where the stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.

Cormac McCarthy

Horse, Stars, Dark

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I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad. You exist in a bubble. There comes a point where you suddenly feel not really a part of the world, you're just passing through.

Chris Lowe

Thinking, Mad, Gone

"The Pet Shop Boys' Commandments". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2003.

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To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.

Umberto Eco

Easier, Passing, Difficult

Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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Alas!... what is it, valiant knight, save an offering of sacrifice to a demon of vain glory, and a passing through the fire of Moloch? What remains to you as a prize of all the blood you have spilled, of all the travail and pain you have endured, of all the tears which your deeds have caused, when death hath broken the strong man's spear, and overtaken the speed of his war-horse?

Walter Scott

Strong, Horse, Pain

Walter Scott (2015). “Heroes of the Scottish Highlands: Ivanhoe, Waverley and Rob Roy (3 Unabridged Illustrated Classics): Historical Novels from the Author of The Pirate, The Heart of Midlothian, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Bride of Lammermoor and Anne of Geierstein”, p.261, e-artnow

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I'm really disturbed by the degree to which I don't hear people saying, "Are we leaving the world better than we found it?" I think we are a generation that perhaps could not answer in the affirmative, and it is the evasion of the larger responsibility of being only one generation in what one hopes will be an infinite series of fruitful generations. There is a selfishness in refusing to understand that we are passing through; others will come, and they deserve certain courtesies and certain considerations from us.

Marilynne Robinson

Responsibility, Thinking, People

Source: www.pbs.org

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By just passing through things, I continue to slightly limit myself. I want the jobs that don't say that much. I'm often the stepping stone or the conduit from one thing to another. I love the idea of existing in a film and growing and having bigger arcs, and being in scenes where you're just being, as opposed to talking. That' one of my ambitions, lying ahead.

Gavin Rossdale

Jobs, Lying, Ambition

Source: collider.com

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The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.

Claude Bernard

Long, Kitchen, May

Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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O Lord! You are the guide of those who are passing through the Valley of Bewilderment. If I am a heretic, enlarge my heresy.

Mansur Al-Hallaj

Valleys, Lord, Guides

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Life demands sacrifice and difficult decisions from us at every moment. Living does not mean passing through a void of nothingness but rather through a web of relationships among beings, each with their own weight and volume and texture.

Shin Kyung-sook

Mean, Sacrifice, Decision

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It is too often believed that a person in his progress towards perfection passes from error to truth; that when he passes on from one thought to another, he must necessarily reject the first. But no error can lead to truth. The soul passing through its different stages goes from truth to truth, and each stage is true; it goes from lower truth to higher truth.

Swami Vivekananda

Errors, Perfection, Soul

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.350, Manonmani Publishers

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Watson, ... if I can get a mechanism which will make a current of electricity vary in its intensity, as the air varies in density when a sound is passing through it, I can telegraph any sound, even the sound of speech.

Alexander Graham Bell

Air, Sound, Density

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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.

John Sergeant Wise

Time, Years, Philadelphia

John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.50, Anza Publishing

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Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.

Ferdinand Mount

Transition, Transformation, British

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Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.

Julie Christie

America, Time Passing, Affair

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We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.

Naguib Mahfouz

Country, Literature, Problem

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IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

Uncles, Years, Cabins

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