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Book:Sophia

Source: Sophia

“Perhaps patriarchy's greatest psychological weapon is simply its universality and longevity. ... Patriarchy has a still more tenacious or powerful hold through its successful habit of passing itself off as nature.”

Stills Powerful Successful Habit Weapons Passing Passings Psychological Longevity Patriarchy Tenacious Universality

Author:Kate Millett

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

Sex Gone Passing Passings Sensuality Passing Through Promiscuity Puritanism

Author:Molly Haskell

“For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing.”

Poet Currents Passing Passings Contact

Book:With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey

Source: With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey

“My second ex-wife was really kind of like a ship passing in the night. Only she turned out to be the Exxon Valdez.”

Kind Night Wife Passing Passings Ships Exes Love And Marriage Ex Wife

Author:James Woods

“[On Venice:] A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola.”

Water Cities Passing Passings Venice Wondrous Carving Gondolas

Author:Sylvia Pankhurst

“Have you ever thought about it, about simply leaving? Really, truly thought about it with the intent to follow through and not as a dream or a passing fancy?”

Dream Leaving Passing Passings Fancy Follow Through

Book:The Night Circus

Source: The Night Circus

“Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind's way of protecting itself from pain.”

Way Giving Mind Persons Pain Fall Hurt Sleep News Mark Distance Passing Passings Unconscious Wounded Name Of The Wind

Book:The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:

Source: The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:

“The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations.”

Men Humans Faces Sound Generations Sacrifice Dog Passing Passings Taoism Immune Straws

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The people to become enlightened in Atlantis lit the "flame of enlightenment" on earth for the first time. The members of the various mystery schools have kept the flame alive by passing on the secret techniques for attaining enlightenment from the time of Atlantis to our present day.”

“The human animal ... is ... neither male nor female ... And if I am allowed to jest a little in passing, I have a joke that is not altogether irrelevant: nothing resembles a male cat on the windowsill more than a female cat.”

Ifs Humans Littles Animal Jokes Female Cat Males Passing Passings Irrelevant Jest Human Animal

Author:Marie de Gournay

“our sons and daughters are only passing through. ... If we are lucky, they always will consider our home their harbor, but they are headed out to the open sea, almost from the first.”

Ifs Firsts Children Home Sea Son Lucky Daughter Passing Passings Harbors Passing Through Son And Daughter

Book:The Rest of Us: Dispatches from the Mother Ship

Source: The Rest of Us: Dispatches from the Mother Ship

“For order represents our fear and nervousness. We create ordered interiors as a protest over the passing of things, to define our mortal lives against the void of time.”

Order Passing Passings Mortals Protest Void Interiors Nervousness

Author:Gertrude Diamant

“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

“A child, then a man, now a feather / Passing through a furious fire / Called time.”

Men Children Grief Fire Passing Passings Feathers Furious Passing Through

Book:Elegy: poems

Source: Elegy: poems

“The birth and rebirth of all nature, / The passing of winter and spring, / We share with the life universal, / Rejoice in the magical ring.”

Loss Share Birth Spring Universal Winter Rings Disaster Passing Passings Oneness Rejoice Rebirth

Book:Witchcraft for Tomorrow

Source: Witchcraft for Tomorrow

“Putting your hand into a river, you simultaneously touch the last of what is passing and the first of what is coming.”

Firsts Hands Lasts Rivers Passing Passings

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“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.”

“Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality.”

Way Helping Spiritual Political Values Spirituality Passing Passings Organized Agendas Organized Religion Spiritual Values Passing On

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“People kept passing our [ with Robert Ben Garant] script around, and suddenly we had this reputation as screenwriters, which we're not - we're sketch comedy guys.”

People Guy Comedy Scripts Passing Passings Reputation Screenwriters Sketch Comedy

Author:Thomas Lennon

“Step beyond right and wrong, and resist passing judgment. Who you've been and what you've experienced in the past isn't good . . . and it isn't bad. You might not know the whole story.”

Knows Whole Stories Might Past Steps Judgment Passing Passings Passing Judgment

Book:Past Lives, Present Miracles

Source: Past Lives, Present Miracles

“The porter spends his days in the Library keeping strict vigil over this catacomb of books, passing along between the shelves and yet never paying heed to the almost audible susurrus of desire- the desire every book has to be taken down and read, to live, to come into being in somebody's mind. He even hands the volumes over the counter, seeks them out in their proper places or returns them there without once realising that a Book is a Person and not a Thing.”

Mind Persons Book Hands Desire Taken Return Down And Library Passing Passings Realising Volume Strict Shelves Heed

Book:The Journal of a Disappointed Man

Source: The Journal of a Disappointed Man

“Terrestrial happiness is of short duration. The brightness of the flame is wasting its fuel; the fragrant flower is passing away in its own odors.”

Happiness Flower Passing Passings Flames Fuel Passing Away Brightness Duration Odor Fragrant Flowers

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“Now, on the longest day, light triumphs, and yet begins the decline into dark. We turn the Wheel for we have planted the seeds of our own changes, and to grow we must accept even the passing of the sun Set Sail See with clear eyes See how we shine!”

Light Eye Turns Grows Dark Accepting Sun Clear Shining Seeds Passing Passings Triumph Wheels Decline Sail Sun Set Clear Eyes

Author:Starhawk

“Every time I go to Europe, I remember that James Dean never saw Europe, but yet I see his face everywhere. There's James Dean, Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe - windows of the Champs Elysees, discos in the south of Spain, restaurants in Sweden, t-shirts in Moscow. My life was confused and disoriented for years by his passing. My sense of destiny destroyed - the great films he would have directed, the great performances he would have given, the great humanitarian he would have become, and yet, he's the greatest actor and star I have ever known.”

“One of my biggest inspirations growing up was Whitney Houston, so I was devastated to hear about her passing. I'm from East Orange, New Jersey, and started singing at New Hope Baptist Church, so she was like my fellow Jersey girl.”

Inspiration Girl Church Growing Up Growing Singing Fellows East Passing Passings Orange Jersey Baptists New Jersey Devastated Houston Whitney New Hope Jersey Girl

Author:Naturi Naughton

“Speaking of opinions, the charming woman does not air hers very freely. The crude woman is eager to let you know what she thinks of every matter, person or object that bobs up. She comments on every passing item - even in public, as you may have noticed. Not only is it bad taste for her to be so desperately interested in her own reactions and opinions - but she throws away the precious aura of reserve and mystery that makes a woman attractive.”

Thinking Knows May Persons Doe Matter Opinion Air Mystery Objects Taste Reactions Passing Passings Attractive Comment Bob Reserves Charming Items Crude Auras Bad Taste Charming Woman

Author:Margery Wilson

“It's not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It's not heading for the punchline, and also it's not about scoring goals. It's about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves.”

Form Next Easy Goal Direct Balls Passing Passings Headings Punchlines Scoring Goals

Author:Gael Garcia Bernal

“The error of Socrates must be attributed to the false notion of unity from which he starts. Unity there should be, both of the family and of the state, but in some respects only. For there is a point at which a state may attain such a degree of unity as to be no longer a state, or at which, without actually ceasing to exist, it will become an inferior state, like harmony passing into unison, or rhythm which has been reduced to a single foot. The state, as I was saying, is a plurality which should be united and made into a community by education”

Should May Has Beens Made States Community United Feet Degrees Harmony Errors Unity Notion Passing Passings Rhythm Communism Inferiors Unison

Book:The Essential Aristotle

Source: The Essential Aristotle

“Many state governments have launched innovative steps such as Ladli Laxmi scheme of Madhya Pradesh, PDS reform scheme of Chattisgarh, computerization of land records in Karnataka, free computers to students passing 10th standard exams, pollution control efforts in Himachal, power sector reforms in Rajasthan and Mumbai - Pune Expressway in Maharashta. These excellent innovative schemes are examples of good governance.”

“So with Easter. It was fun, as a child, to bound down the stairs to find seasonal sweet-treats under each plate, but again, with the passing of time, and the shadow of death over our broken family circle, I've seen Easter as highest necessity. If hope is to flourish, it had better be true.”

Ifs Children Fun Sweet Broken Highest Shadow Treats Bounds Circles Passing Passings Being True Plates Easter Stairs Shadow Of Death Broken Family

Author:Gerhard E Frost

“feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal”

Feels Eternal Passing Passings Stillness

Book:Who is Man?

Source: Who is Man?

“When I wrote The Interestings, I wanted to let time unspool, to give the book the feeling of time passing. I had to allow myself the freedom to move back and forth in time freely, and to trust that readers would accept this.”

Giving Book Feelings Wanted Moving Accepting Reader Passing Passings Back And Forth Time Passing Time Passes

Author:Meg Wolitzer

“The ancients waited for cherry blossoms, grieved when they were gone, and lamented their passing in countless poems. How very ordinary the poems had seemed to Sachiko when she read them as a girl, but now she knew, as well as one could know, that grieving over fallen cherry blossoms was more than a fad or convention.”

Knows Wells Girl Gone Ordinary Passing Passings Fallen Grieving Conventions Cherries Fads Cherry Blossom

Book:The Makioka Sisters

Source: The Makioka Sisters

“True humanism points the way toward God and acknowledges the task to which we are called, the task which offers us the real meaning of human life. Man is not the ultimate measure of man. Man becomes truly man only by passing beyond himself.”

Men Way Humans Real Offers Tasks Ultimate Humanism Passing Passings Human Life Acknowledge

Author:Pope Paul VI

“There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.”

Example Passing Passings Dictatorship Castro Fraternal

Author:Elliott Abrams

“And this year, when we end the cruel, defeatist practice of passing children who cannot read into fourth grade, and when our most diligent students begin to graduate from high school in 11 years, and get a head start on college costs with the dollars they earned through their hard work, others will take notice of Indiana yet again.”

“Everyone says we have our first African American president. Has there ever been a Jewish president? An Italian president? They don't say a damn thing about that. You think we're still fighting the Civil War or something. If you want to mention it in passing, OK. But don't dwell on it.”

Ifs Thinking Want Firsts Stills War Fighting President Passing Passings African American Damn Civil War Italian American President Damn Things

Author:Monte Irvin

“This year I've just been aggressive. I still have that mindset of passing the ball, and being aggressive and attacking to the basket is going to draw more attention, and that way I can find my teammates. Being in attack mode is something I try to bring into every single game, and that's what's making me be so successful.”

Way Trying Years Stills I Can Games Attention Successful Draws Balls Mindset Passing Passings Aggressive Attacking Teammate Baskets

Author:James Harden

“You have total freedom. It's like, if you do a solo record, there are no restrictions and you can do whatever you want, good or bad. You can have these passing fancies where you go in to the studio one day and you want to do something like what you did on the way in. That's dangerous. You have to have some sort of focus.”

Ifs Way Want Can Do Records Focus Dangerous One Day Studios Passing Passings Fancy Solo Restriction Do Whatever You Want

Author:Patrick Stump

“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

“Because of the control of the media by corporate wealth, the discovery of truth depends on an alternative media, such as small radio stations, networks, programs. Also, alternative newspapers, which exist all over the country. Also, cable TV programs, which are not dependent on commercial advertising. Also, the internet, which can reach millions of people by-passing the conventional media.”

“Strike is always a form of direct action. With the strike, too, you are not asking government to make things easier for you by passing legislation, you are taking a direct action against the employer.”

Government Action Form Easier Direct Asking Strikes Passing Passings Legislation Employers Direct Action

Author:Howard Zinn

“So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way and did not require a liaison man. It had been my intention to stay on the train, without bothering about arriving anywhere: sight-seeing was a way of passing the time, but, as I had concluded in Istanbul, it was an activity very largely based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.”

Source: The great railway bazaar: by train through Asia

“As someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with most of the 20th century presidents, I have often thought that their accomplishments have little staying power in shaping popular views of their leadership.”

Littles President Views Century Passing Passings Accomplishment Staying 20th Century Acquaintance Staying Power

Author:Robert Dallek

“The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they find themselves in. And contained in the blues is a philosophical system at work. And as part of the oral tradition, this is a way of passing along information.”

Way Important America Situation Information Expression Tradition Philosophical Response Passing Passings Oral Tradition

Author:August Wilson

“I intend 'Dämmerung' to be an ironic meditation on the financial rewards of poetry and a tragicomic lament on the passing of time and the changes in literary taste. The other poets mentioned are my poetic cohort from the U.K. I wrote the piece in situ, as it were, while making a television documentary about World War I in Germany.”

World War Pieces Meditation Television Poet Taste Rewards Financial Passing Passings War Of The Worlds Germany Poetic Ironic World War I Documentaries Lament

Author:Simon Armitage

“In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture-it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.”

Way Values Enemy Pieces Creation Painting Goes On Garden Passing Passings Useless Sculpture Gardener Parting Time Passing Slippery Time Passes Time Goes On Countdown

Book:My Garden (Book)

Source: My Garden (Book)

“Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy to interest them in taking care of plants and especially of animals. Nothing awakens foresight in a small child such as this. When he knows that animals have need of him, that little plants will dry up if he does not water them, he binds together with a new thread of love today's passing moments with those of the morrow.”

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