Best Passing It Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else.”

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Author:Samuel West

“The small town is passing. It was the incubator that hatched all our big men, and that's why we haven't got as many big men today as we used to have. Take every small-town-raised leader out of business and you would have nobody left running it but vice-presidents.”

Men Bigs Running Today Used Left President Business Leader Havens Towns Raised Vices Passing Passings Small Town Vice President Passing It

Author:Will Rogers

“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

“I still have faith in people. But that is getting increasingly harder to maintain. I just don't see many people today choosing love. I see people passing it up a lot. Foreclosing on it, deferring it, sabotaging, letting go.”

People Stills Today Letting Go Harder Passing Passings Have Faith Passing It

Author:Masha Tupitsyn

“The blues records of each decade explain something about the philosophical basis of our lives as black people. ... Blues is a basis of historical continuity for black people. It is a ritualized way of talking about ourselves and passing it on.”

People Way Black Talking Music Records Our Lives Bases Philosophical Historical Decades Passing Passings Black People Continuity Way Of Talking Passing It

Author:Sherley Anne Williams

“This is, if not a lifetime process, it's awfully close to it. The writer broadens, becomes deeper, becomes more observant, becomes more tempered, becomes much wiser over a period time passing. It is not something that is injected into him by a needle. It is not something that comes on a wave of flashing, explosive light one night and say, 'Huzzah! Eureka! I've got it!' and then proceeds to write the great American novel in eleven days. It doesn't work that way. It's a long, tedious, tough, frustrating process, but never, ever be put aside by the fact that it's hard.”

“I hate to say it, and Apple never likes it, but I love anything that's hacker oriented. I don't like passing it onto others, or getting things for free. I don't like stealing music one bit, at all.”

Hate Bits I Hate Stealing Likes Passing Passings Apples Hackers Passing It

Author:Steve Wozniak

“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.”

Stills Spirit Walking Musician Passing Passings Great Music Great Musician Passing It

Author:Miles Davis

“After the November elections gave Republicans control of the Senate, voters made clear they wanted change. We were hopeful our leaders got the voters' message. However, after our speaker forced through the (spending bill) by passing it with Democratic votes and without time to read it, it seemed clear that we needed new leadership.”

Made Wanted Change Leadership Leader Clear Needed Republican Messages Vote Election Bills Democratic Spending Passing Passings Hopeful Voters Senate Speakers November Ever After Passing It

Author:Louie Gohmert

“I was always getting in trouble because I was the class clown but I always made teacher laugh. I remember I thought I was going to fail that class but I ended up passing it and I really think it was only because I was good entertainment for her.”

Thinking Made Remember Class Laughing Teacher Failing Trouble Entertainment Passing Passings Clown Passing It

Author:Larry the Cable Guy

“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.”

Time Strong Events Rivers Sight Currents Passing Passings Time Passing Swept Away Passing By Passing It

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“I love watching little Paul Scholes, he's so in control of what he's doing and is always so accurate and pinpoint with his passing - it's just beautiful to watch.”

Littles Beautiful Watches Passing Passings Accurate Scholes Paul Scholes Passing It

Author:Bobby Charlton

“I don't want this music to die.The older people are passing it on to the younger generation so the younger generation can pass it on to the next generation.”

People Want Dies Next Generations Passing Passings Next Generation Older People Younger Generation Passing It

Author:Vy Higginsen

“In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.”

Men Enemy Forgiveness Anger Revenge Passing Superiors Passings Best Revenge Exacting Revenge Revenge Is Sweet Passing It Taking Revenge

Book:The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes

Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes

“I've never been a collector - just a consumer - and these days unless a book is signed to me by another author, I don't normally have any qualms about passing it to a friend or donating it to the library.”

Book Library Passing Passings Consumers These Days Collectors Qualms Qualms About Passing It

Author:Rick Riordan

“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.”

Sometimes Sacrifice Positive Losing Passing Passings Without Sacrifice Passing It Willingness To Sacrifice Ultimate Sacrifice

Author:Mitch Albom

“An empty frame, in which the picture is always changing, makes a statement about how time is always passing. It doesn't really stop, even in a single image. I t just feels that way.”

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Book:The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“Time was not passing...it was turning in a circle.”

Circles Passing Passings Passing It

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.”

People Thinking Pain Behinds Suicide Passing Passings Suicidal Passing It

Book:Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel

Source: Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel

“...fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. if it did, no good person would ever die." "Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family you have yet to come to know." "sacrifice is a part of life. it is supposed to be. it's not something to regret. it's something to aspire to. little sacrifices. big sacrifices. a mother works so her son can go to school. a daughter moves home to take care of her sick father. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. you're just passing it on to someone else.”

“Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.”

Past Time Gone Time Passing Paradoxical Time Goes On Time Goes By Concept Of Time Passing It Time Is Precious Times Gone By

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?”

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Author:Paracelsus

“Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark - spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing all the moving.”

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Author:Martin Amis

“The current disfavor into which socialism has fallen has spurred.... the frenzy to proclaim oneself a liberal. Many writers today have recourse to the strategem of inventing for oneself a liberalism according to one's own tastes and passing it off as an evolution from past ideas.”

Ideas Philosophy Today Past Political Evolution Taste Economics Oneself Currents Socialism Passing Passings Fallen Liberalism Inventing Frenzy Recourse Passing It

Author:Ralph Raico

“The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that there shall always be a twelve-month between the ingross-ing a bill & passing it: that it should then be offered to its passage without changing a word: and that if circum-stances should be thought to require a speedier passage, it should take two thirds of both houses instead of a bare majority.”

Ifs Thinking Should Wells Two Would Be Law Evil House Months Thirds Constitution Bills Majority Passing Passings Passages Twelve Immense Stance Instability Passing It

Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.”

Life Stories Work Our Lives Produce Passing Passings Relays Passing It

Author:Toni Cade Bambara

“Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.”

Inspirational Hours Wind Something New Time Passing Concept Of Time Passing It

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.”

Mind Would Be Easy Attention Saws Heard Subjects Mines Passing Passings My Thoughts Restless Observant Inquisitive Passing It

Book:The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia

Source: The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia

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