Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.
Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox.
death - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience.
The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
The worse the passage the more welcome the port.
My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.
I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
Apollodorus says, "If any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other authors, his paper would be left empty.
Sometimes I feel that 'Footloose' is the rite of passage.
A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.
Passage Vero-Dodat - I started my company on this passage. It feels as much home as it can!
Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage.
Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
Refusing to teach a passage of Scripture is just as wrong as abusing it
Hundreds of passages point to a time of judgment for every person who has ever lived-none will escape. If you took all the references to judgment out of the Bible, you would have little Bible left.
The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
This life is but the passage of a day, This life is but a pang and all is over; But in the life to come which fades not away Every love shall abide and every lover.