Equations seem like treasures, spotted in the rough by some discerning individual, plucked and examined, placed in the grand storehouse of knowledge, passed on from generation to generation. This is so convenient a way to present scientific discovery, and so useful for textbooks, that it can be called the treasure-hunt picture of knowledge.
However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return.
You have to let individuals make their own choices and respect that, even if it's your own child. And that's what was taken away from me. My father passed away thinking I still had to go back to his way of believing.
With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century
Travelers are always discoverers, especially those who travel by air. There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived it in act and circumstand, but as his imagination had created it for him, as it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous, and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own.
When we have passed beyond knowings, then we shall have Knowledge.
The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power and grasp. It was, I venture to suggest, this semi-occult power which. . . . pushed the mass of the American people into the cauldron of World War I.
Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they have been taught to consider as an ordeal that must be passed through before they can arrive at regeneration. To satisfy such minds, it may be observed, that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produce amendment, and that the greatest is insufficient, if it do not.
When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
The whole issue of healthcare is very complicated. There have been seven Presidents who've tried to get healthcare reform passed.
After independence was gained, one of the first Acts passed by the Greek government was for the protection and preservation of national monuments.
I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we’ve passed the audition.
Some wounds should be healed, no matter how much time has passed or how much time is left.
My mother passed at the end of the Circus tour. After that I really needed to take some time and just chill out and get my head together.
He who does not answer the questions has passed the test.
If the Tao could be served up, everyone would serve it up to their lords. If the Tao could be offered, there is no one who would not offer it to their parents. If the Tao could be spoken of, there is no one in the world who would not speak of it to their brothers and sisters. if the Tao could be passed on, there is no one who would not pass it on to their heirs. However, it obviously cannot be so and the reason is as follows. If there is no true centre within to receive it, it cannot remain;if there is no true direction outside to guide it,it cannot be received.
That passed the time. It would have passed in any case. Yes, but not so rapidly.
There is no compensation for the woman who feels that the chief relation of her life has been no more than a mistake. She has lost her crown. The deepest secret of human blessedness has half whispered itself to her, and then forever passed her by.