The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart.
When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.
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.
Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.
Bachelor parties are designed for those who are sad to see the passing of their single days. I couldn’t be more eager to have mine behind me. So there’s really no point.
Meditation simply means a state of no-thought, awareness without the process of thought, just pure, mirror-like awareness, with no thoughts passing in the mind.
If you are not moving forward, the world is passing you by.
There are no truths, only moments of claryty passing for answers.
Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.
Keep passing the open windows.
That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
This is what I have come to know: Our past is never passed and there is no such thing as moving on. But there is this telling and there is such a thing as passing through.
The light is no mystery, the mystery is that there is something to keep the light from passing through.
In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.
Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.
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.
You can never tell what type of impact you may make on another's life by your actions or lack of action. Some times just with a smile on the street to a passing stranger can make a difference we could never imagine.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young.