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“I try, but they always see through me. The passages will never lead anywhere, the doors will always be shut.”

Doors Passages Try Shut Nowhere See Through

Book:Good Morning, Midnight

Source: Good Morning, Midnight

“Reflections...passages in time..sometimes, the only things that make sense..the only peace I find..is found somewhere, unwritten..in between the lines.”

Time Peace Discovery Passages Sense Reflections Unwritten Somewhere

Author:Victoria June

“Changing your mind can move you into another dimension. Passages materialize exposing a hidden world that was there all along.”

Mind Moving Change Passages Dimension Materialization

Book:Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Source: Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“When we go with the tide of life and pursue the twisting currents of our thoughts, a surge of consciousness can guide us through the blurred passages of our history and light up striking instants that we may have missed out. ("Knowing someone was waiting")”

Consciousness Passages Guide Striking Blurred Miss Out Tide Of Life Twisting

Author:Erik Pevernagie

“I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!”

Trying Self Together Values Pieces Taught Passages Guitarist Self Taught

Author:Sam Palladio

“Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.”

Writing Lost Novel Childhood Illusion Expectations Titles Maturity Passages Thrill Clash Great Writers Motifs

Author:Andre Maurois

“Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage.”

Kind Models Passages Rite Mermaid Rite Of Passage

Author:Gemma Ward

“Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound of it; the taste of it on the tongue; what it can be made to do in virtuosic passages that exist only for their own sake, like cadenzas in baroque concerti. Writers in love with their tools are not unlike surgeons obsessed with their scalpels, or Arctic sled racers who sleep among their dogs even when they don't have to.”

Source: The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain

“My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road.”

World Brave Passages New World Rite Brave New World Rite Of Passage World Life

Author:Kenny Loggins

“I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.”

Done Play Wanted Acting Comedy Havens Tvs Areas Passages Detectives Rite Rite Of Passage

Author:Olivia Williams

“Indeed, the very first acknowledgment (as far as I am aware) of the attraction of mutilated bodies occurs in a founding description of mental conflict. It is a passage in The Republic, Book IV, where Plato’s Socrates describes how our reason may be overwhelmed by an unworthy desire, which drives the self to become angry with a part of its nature.”

Firsts May Book Self Reason Body Desire Conflict Angry Attraction Description Republic Passages Plato Founding Overwhelmed Unworthy Acknowledgment Plato S

Book:Regarding the Pain of Others

Source: Regarding the Pain of Others

“The passage is free for those who think you are not good enough for them: at your level, I think the best option is to sit back, relax and listen to a cool music, while watching them pack out of your life, and that's when you feel the intense release from the pit of hell.”

Thinking Feels Enough Levels Hell Intense Release Relax Good Enough Passages Packs Pits Not Good Enough Cool Music

Author:Michael Bassey

“The round towers of the castles looked as if they were so firmly encrusted in the sky that, to get to their other side, one would have to hew out a passage through the celestial marble.”

Ifs Sides Sky Rounds Passages Towers Castles Marble Celestial

Book:Lud-in-the-Mist

Source: Lud-in-the-Mist

“Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage.”

Kind Passages Rite Rite Of Passage

Author:Hank Nuwer

“Sometimes I feel that 'Footloose' is the rite of passage.”

Feels Sometimes Passages Rite Rite Of Passage Footloose

Author:Craig Brewer

“The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.”

Persons Different Feelings Able Strong Notes Passionate Sensitive Mature Passages Delicate Symphony Nuance Differentiate Mature Person

Author:Rollo May

“A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.”

Littles Given Bits Written Pride Little Bit Passages Given Up Stink

Author:J. D. Salinger

“So often we look at a calendar of days as merely a symbol of the passage of time. We forget why we are on this earth. We forget that there is a reason for all the pain and the struggle.”

Life Inspirational Looks Reason Earth Pain Forget Struggle Inspirational Life Symbols Passages Calendars Passage Of Time

Book:Walk in Balance: Meditations with Lynn Andrews

Source: Walk in Balance: Meditations with Lynn Andrews

“There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education and their experience of free institutions, the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint at the sight of new possessions they are about to obtain. In their intense and exclusive anxiety to make a fortune they lose sight of the close connection that exists between the private fortune of each and the prosperity of all.”

“Students who are put in a university who aren't qualified tend to have lower graduation rates, they have lower grades, they have lower bar passage rates. You can demonstrate that. You are putting them in position where they are not set up to succeed.”

Position Students Succeed Rate University Bars Grades Passages Qualified

Author:Mary Kissel

“Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break.”

Courses Force Powerful Break Wall Gold And Love Stronger Speed Passages Thunder

Book:The Works of Horace, Translated by Philip Francis

Source: The Works of Horace, Translated by Philip Francis

“These poems are a mental sketch as formed / Passage by passage of light and shade / Maintained and preserved to this point / Brought together in paper and mineral ink”

Light Together Poetry Paper Shade Passages Ink Minerals

Book:Strong in the Rain: Selected Poems

Source: Strong in the Rain: Selected Poems

“I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.”

Men Enough Remember Fool Passages Zeal Zealous Vicars

Book:The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

“The majority of people who keel over dead at concerts are killed by a long trumpet passage.”

People Long Music Majority Concerts Passages Trumpets Keel

Author:Garrison Keillor

“That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.”

Hands Pieces Four Cutting Rounds Corners Nonsense Passages Sublime Ridicule Fiery

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.”

Way Humans Left Growth Known Capable Structure Vulnerable Vulnerability Passages Exposed Shed Protective Stretching

Book:Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life

Source: Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life

“A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.”

Difficult Pages Passages Depressing

Author:Charlotte Bronte

“Apertures, passages from one world to another. Man's escape hatches.”

Men World Freedom Passages Another Man Aperture

Author:P. K. Page

“The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes.”

Individual Music Keys Involved Notes Related Passages Imagery Rite Rite Of Passage Mental Imagery

Author:Glenn Gould

“Through each passage and each season, may you trust the goodness f life.”

May Goodness Seasons Good Life Passages

Author:Charlene Costanzo

“If one takes a public stand against, say, most any sin you can think of, one is considered "courageous" and a "defender of the faith." Folks will quickly applaud you and tell you how much they admire you for "taking a stand" on biblical truth. Except if you quote Matt. 5:44 and invite people to apply it in any sort of meaningful, literal way. The moment one begins to talk about loving your enemies they all of a sudden become "liberals," "extremists," or are accused of completely taking an otherwise straight forward passage "out of context.”

“Of course, when one is faced with a canvas, one is no longer alone, and the sense of solitude diminishes. This can be an agreeable passage of time. In fact, solitude then becomes a kind of companion.”

Kind Facts Courses Solitude Companion Passages Canvas Diminish Passage Of Time

Author:Pierre Alechinsky

“Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.”

Life Is Museums Passages

Author:Robert Genn

“Carl Orff's Carmina Burana has the ability to take you from placidity to power in one sonic breath. It is music of dignity and strength, with primitive, energetic passages, evoking absolute beauty from the simplest of phrases. It brings up something that has everything to do with significance - squeezing joy and motif that you just can't drop - it stays with you.”

Joy Ability Music Dignity Absolutes Breaths Phrases Significance Passages Primitive Simplest Energetic Squeezing Motifs Dignity And Strength

Author:Robert Genn

“Time would fail me were I to try to lay before you in order all the passages in the Holy Scriptures which relate to the efficacy of baptism or to explain the mysterious doctrine of that second birth which though it is our second is yet our first in Christ.”

Trying Firsts Order Christ Failing Birth Holy Lays Scripture Doctrine Mysterious Relate Passages Baptism Holy Scriptures Efficacy

Book:The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)

“If you worry, you are a worrier because your mind is saturated with worry thoughts. To counteract these, mark every passage in your Bible that speaks of faith, hope, and courage.”

Ifs Mind Religion Speak Worry Mark Passages Saturated Faith Hope

Book:Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

Source: Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

“Every one ought to study the Bible with two ends in view: his own growth in knowledge and grace, and passing it on to others. We ought to have four ears,- two for ourselves, and two for other people. My Bible is worth a good deal to me because I have so many passages marked that, if I am called upon to speak at any time, I am ready. We ought to be prepared to pass around heavenly thoughts and truths, just as we do the coin of the realm.”

People Ifs Two Ends Christian Speak Growth Views Deals Study Grace Four Ready Ought Ears Prepared Passing Passings Realms Heavenly Passages Be Prepared Coins Passing It

Book:Talks to Christians

Source: Talks to Christians

“Now more than ever I am aware that a person's significant birthdays can either mark the passage of time, or they can mark changes they've made in their lives to reach their potential and become the person they were created to be. With each passing year, I want to make good choices that make me a better person, help me become a better leader, and make a positive impact on others.”

Want Years Persons Made Helping Motivational Choices Leader Mark Impact Significant Passing Passings Help Me Passages Better Person Passage Of Time Positive Impact Good Choices

Author:John C. Maxwell

“Nothing physical which sense-experience sets before our eyes, or which necessary demonstrations prove to us, ought to be called in question (much less condemned) upon the testimony of biblical passages...”

Thinking Eye Ought Prove Passages Biblical Testimony Demonstration

Author:Galileo Galilei

“My mother was born in the city, my dad was an immigrant. Probably from Germany. Could have been Austria, could have been Poland. The borders were changing. My dad brought over a large family of Shatners when he was very young. Scraped together the money, got 11 brothers and sisters a passage on the boat. There's a lot of Shatners in Montreal.”

Has Beens Together Young Mother Born Cities Brother Dad My Dad Boat Borders Germany Immigrants Passages Brothers And Sisters Could Have Been Poland Montreal Austria Large Family

Author:William Shatner

“Strange priests are they who never straightly walk But all aslant through sideways passage stalk Who never seek their goals in forward lines But move askew as fraught with sly designs”

Moving Goal Lines Walks Design Strange Priests Passages Stalking Sideways Sly

Author:Willard Fiske

“Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.”

Ifs Soul Country Mother Bird Instinct Horizon Passages Sensible Mother Country Beyond The Horizon

Author:Amos Bronson Alcott

“If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the bodies that have been buried in it? The answers are the same. Just as on earth, with the passage of time, decaying and transmogrified corpses make way for the newly dead, so souls released into the heavens, after a season of flight, begin to break up, burn, and be absorbed back into the womb of reason, leaving room for souls just beginning to fly. This is the answer for those who believe that souls survive death.”

Source: The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations

“Outward objects cannot take hold of the soul, nor force their passage into her, nor set any of her wheels going. No, the impression comes from herself, and it is her own motions which affect her. As for the contingencies of fortune, they are either great or little, according to the opinion she has of her own strength.”

Littles Soul Force Opinion Objects Fortune Impression Wheels Passages Contingency

Book:The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

Source: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

“The most accomplished literary work would be reduced to nothing by carping criticism, if the author would listen to all critics and allow every one to erase the passage which pleases him the least.”

Ifs Would Be Please Criticism Critics Accomplished Passages Erase Literary Works

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment; but it has chapters of clear and triumphant beauty, and above all it makes us wonder, what will he write next?”

Writing Book Shows Next Wonder Clear India Passages Chapters Fatigue Disillusionment Triumphant

Author:E. M. Forster

“The Bible is a warm letter of affection from a parent to a child; and yet there are many who see chiefly the severer passages. As there may be fifty or sixty nights of gentle dews in one summer, that will not cause as much remark as one hailstorm of half an hour, so there are those who are more struck by those passages of the Bible that announce the indignation of God than by those that announce His affection.”

May Children Night Causes Parent Hours Half Summer Bible Letters Affection Warm Gentle Fifty Passages Sixty Remarks Dew Indignation Hailstorms

Book:Sermons

Source: Sermons

“The private reader of listener can become an executant of felt meaning when he learns the poem or the musical passage by heart. To learn by heart is to afford the text or music an indwelling clarity and life-force.”

Heart Force Felt Reader Musical Clarity Passages Listeners

Book:Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?

Source: Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?

“There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.”

People Children Literature Particular Enjoyment Passages Solomon Children's Literature

Author:Anton Chekhov

“All things pass...Perhaps the passage of time is a kind of healing, or a kind of salvation granted equally to all people.”

People Kind Healing All Things Salvation Granted Passages Passage Of Time

Author:Mizuki Nomura