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“We who follow Christ are men and women of eternity. We must put no confidence in the passing scenes of the disappearing world. We must resist every attempt of Satan to palm off upon us the values that belong to mortality. Nothing less than forever is long enough for us.”

Author:Rajneesh

“Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation.”

Men Forever Generations Passing Passings Strife

Book:The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

Source: The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)

“No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn how little the attention of others is attracted by himself. While we see multitudes passing before us, of whom perhaps not one appears to deserve our notice or excites our sympathy, we should remember, that we likewise are lost in the same throng, that the eye which happens to glance upon us is turned in a moment on him that follows us, and that the utmost which we can reasonably hope or fear is to fill a vacant hour with prattle, and be forgotten.”

Men World Should Littles Moments Happens Eye Remember Lost Hours Attention Conditions Deserve Forgotten Passing Passings Multitudes Glances Vacant

Author:Samuel Johnson

“The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.”

World Spirit Rocks Universal Ancient Woods Passing Passings Greece Animated Passing Through Ancient Greece Ascending

Book:The Works of Walter Savage Landor

Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor

“There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve.”

Long Book Majority Passing Passings Preserves Aristocracy Backyards

Author:Nelson DeMille

“Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty promise that wealth or power would bring fulfillment and their dignity, good name and self-esteem for the passing pleasures of sex and drugs.”

“In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.”

Wells Age Change Emotion Practice Habit Complexes Patterns Passing Passings Dumb Transition Habitual

Book:Adventures of Ideas

Source: Adventures of Ideas

“Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.”

Facts Found Practicals Passing Passings Unseen Rapids Illustration Practical Life

Book:Sermons

Source: Sermons

“The microwave oven is one of the modern objects that convey the most elemental feeling of power over the passing seconds ... If you suffer from hurry sickness in its most advanced stages, you may find yourself punching 88 seconds instead of 90 because it is faster to tap the same digit twice.”

Ifs May Feelings Suffering Modern Stage Objects Passing Passings Faster Sickness Finding Yourself Seconds Ovens Elementals Punching Microwaves

Author:James Gleick

“With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.”

Hope Loses Passing Passings

Book:The Hundred Secret Senses: A Novel

Source: The Hundred Secret Senses: A Novel

“Whether we regard the Women's Liberation movement as a serious threat, a passing convulsion, or a fashionable idiocy, it is a movement that mounts an attack on practically everything that women value today and introduces the language and sentiments of political confrontation into the area of personal relationships.”

Today Political Values Language Women Movement Serious Areas Regard Threat Passing Passings Liberation Sentiments Introducing Confrontation Fashionable Personal Relationships Idiocy

Author:Arianna Huffington

“Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record and preserve the very passing of Time?”

Way Needs Language Levels Records Experience Passing Passings Preserves Rising Compulsion Verify

Book:(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities

Source: (Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities

“After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig.”

War Passing Passings Hollow Hints Vines Normalcy Twigs

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a condition of survival. That which has been gained must be eternalized, and can only be eternalized by being transmuted, by passing through death they must return”

Ifs Has Beens Death Conditions Dying Return Essentials Survival Passing Passings Transient Passing Through

Author:Vilayat Inayat Khan

“From the air, Vatican City looked like a marble Monopoly set. The Church owned all the property from Broadwalk to Illinois Avenue, has three hotels on every lot, and no matter how often it tossed the dice you just knew it would never land on Go to Jail, it would be forever passing Go and collecting $200.”

Matter Humor Would Be Funny Three Church Cities Forever Air Land Humorous Property Passing Passings Hotel Jail Monopoly Avenues Collecting Marble Dice Illinois

Book:Another Roadside Attraction

Source: Another Roadside Attraction

“Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if with the purpose of reducing it to nothing, then will matter (since annihilation or true destruction is not possible except by the omnipotence of God) finding itself in these straits, turn and transform itself into strange shapes, passing from one change to another till it has gone through the whole circle and finished the period.”

Source: The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: Literary and professional works

“Passing the veil does not alter a man; it certainly takes him from the eyes of flesh, but the capacity, the intelligence, the thinking powers, are all alive and quick; and if they hear the Gospel they will be glad, and the promises are made to them, and they will rejoice in them.”

Ifs Thinking Men Doe Made Character Eye Alive Promise Capacity Flesh Glad Passing Passings Rejoice Veils

Author:Parley P. Pratt

“In passing I draw attention to another English expression which often occurs in Dutch texts: "the real world". In Dutch - and I am afraid not in Dutch alone - its usage is almost always a symptom of a violent anti-intellectualism.”

World Real Attention Expression Draws Violent Passing Passings Real World Symptoms Dutch Intellectualism Usage

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“You don't create jobs by passing bills, you create jobs by cutting taxes.”

Jobs Cutting Taxes Bills Passing Passings

Author:Carly Fiorina

“I never fail to be moved by knowing that the ground on which I walk is layered with the past- with achievement and strife and the repeated passions and conflicts of the human creature, always changing, always the same. Generations passing like grass.”

Humans Past Passion Walks Knowing Failing Generations Conflict Creatures Achievement Moved Passing Passings Grass Strife

Author:Eva Hoffman

“My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.”

Children Long Eye Father Memories Behinds Cases Shadow Winter Clouds Woods Passing Passings My Children Friendly Pairs Brushes Lurking Unfriendly Memory Of My Father

Book:Witness

Source: Witness

“The idea of passing one's whole life in moral idleness, and having one's hardest work and duty done by another-whether God or man-is most revolting to us, as it is most degrading to human dignity.”

Men Humans Ideas Done Whole Moral Duty Dignity Whole Life Passing Hardest Passings Laziness Idleness Human Dignity Degrading

Book:The Key to Theosophy

Source: The Key to Theosophy

“I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.”

Long Literature Lines Poet Tradition Passing Passings Long Lines Passing On

Author:Diane Wakoski

“Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.”

People Different Law Slave Passing Passings Different Peoples

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.”

Thinking Giving Order Forget Acting Flower Creating Passing Passings Forget You Passing Through Vases

Author:Juliette Binoche

“I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.”

Ifs Giving Song Sound Chance Records Perspective Months Valuable Passing Passings Chances Are Your Best Friend

Author:M. Ward

“Arsene Wenger's idea is not only to play good football. It's to play good football to win. In my day, we knew that with our style we could hurt teams and win trophies too. But we did it our way, with the positional game, passing, movement.”

Way Ideas Play Games Winning Hurt Team Style Movement Football Passing Passings Trophies Good Football Wenger

Author:Dennis Bergkamp

“Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.”

Important Law Quality Policy Judging Duty Standards Court Passing Passings Fairness Subjective Legislators Public Policy

Author:Gary Bauer

“If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support.”

People Ifs Persons Lasts Realizing Support Rich Greater Burden Passing Passings Pockets Pounds Escaping Clutch Depriving Rich Person

Author:Clive Anderson

“It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment.”

People Protect Passing Passings Accomplished Flags Amendments Constitutional Amendments

Author:Adrian Cronauer

“As an arts journalist in London, working mainly for the BBC, I interviewed hundreds if not thousands of authors. From them I gleaned a great deal of passing instruction in writing and I observed one fascinating detail: no two writers approach their work - physically - in the same way.”

Ifs Way Writing Art Two Deals Approach Details London Passing Passings Journalist Fascinating Instruction

Author:Frank Delaney

“I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.”

Believe Internet Promise Paid Passing Passings I Promise

Author:Barry Diller

“Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long life, while experiencing a short one. If you spend your life sitting in a cubicle and passing papers, one day is bound to blend unmemorably into the next - and disappear.”

Ifs Long Next Exercise One Day Paper Sitting Bounds Disappear Passing Passings Collapse Papers Long Life Novelty Monotony Cubicles

Book:Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

Source: Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

“One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.”

Kind Doe Stills Two Moments Feelings Three Hours Meditation Stage Concepts Passing Passings All Kinds Performing Description Present Moment

Author:Michael Emerson

“I've been aware of the time passing by they say in the end it's the wink of an eye and when the morning light comes streaming in you'll get up and do it again”

Ends Light Eye Time Morning Passing Passings Get Up Calendars Time Passing Time Passes Streaming Passing By Morning Light

Author:Jackson Browne

“The passage of time eliminates some of the more intimate details of one's existence. The routine trivia like passing water and shitting and the amount of food and alcohol consumed in the course of daily survival. Sure, there were girls. Lots of'em. It's inevitable.”

Life Girl Courses Water Existence Amount Survival Details Alcohol Passing Passings Inevitable Intimate Ems Routine Passages Consumed Passage Of Time Trivia

Book:X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography

Source: X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography

“The Treasury's plan has little for those outside of the financial industry. It is aimed at rescuing the same financial institutions that created this crisis with the sloppy underwriting and reckless disregard for the risk they were creating, taking or passing on to others.”

Littles Business Plans Risk Industry Creating Crisis Institutions Financial Passing Passings Finance Reckless Disregard Treasury Sloppy Financial Institutions Passing On

Author:Richard Shelby

“Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas.”

Ideas Lord Praise Passing Passings Exclusive Ammunition Praise The Lord

Book:Donahue, my own story

Source: Donahue, my own story

“Football is my profession now. I'm getting married in August... It's a new experience for me as someone just getting out of college. I still have the same attitude about football I always had. I play hard. I enjoy practice. I'd rather be throwing in passing drills than sitting around and watching TV.”

“I don't need to break the speed limit. But if I'm not passing other vehicles on the interstate, I get a little irritated.”

Ifs Needs Littles Break Limits Speed Passing Passings Vehicle Irritated Interstate Speed Limits

Author:Jimmie Johnson

“Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.”

Stories Law Crime Passing Passings

Author:Bill James

“We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst.”

“Men really disgust me if they don't have a nice smile, nice lips and nice teeth...They have too many disgusting habits - like scratching themselves all the time. And it's really weird how guys think that passing gas is the funniest thing in the world. They love to do that thing in front of girls and laugh about it.”

Ifs Thinking Men World Guy Girl Laughing Nice Fronts Habit Lips Passing Teeth Passings Gas Disgusting Really Weird Nice Smile Nice Teeth

Author:Jennifer Lopez

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