(72 quotes found)
“Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.”
Thomas Mann
“At the narrow passage there is no brother and no friend”
Arabian Proverb
“And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay; / Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.”
Bible
“Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.”
Helene Cixous
“We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.”
William Howard Taft
“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
“Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.”
Jawaharlal Nehru
“She flays with indignation haughty, The passages she thinks are naughty, but reads them carefully so that, she'll know what to be angry at”
Edward Anthony
“Sometimes a politically incorrect satirical cartoon can do some good. It's only a reference to a passage in [Dante's] Divine Comedy. In any case, Mohammed was sent to Hell by Dante, one of the greatest Italian poets.”
Cesare Cavalleri
“Fish passage conditions are not bad. The water's not too turbid or too cold. The run doesn't look larger than the forecast and there's a good chance it will be smaller.”
Curt Melcher
