The technique of a great seducer requires a facility and an indifference in passing from one object of affection to another which I could never have; however that may be, my loves have left me more often than I have left them, for I have never been able to understand how one could have enough of any beloved. The desire to count up exactly the riches which each new love brings us, and to see it change, and perhaps watch it grow old, accords ill with multiplicity of conquests.
Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion
In order to deviate successfully, one has to have at least a passing acquaintance with whatever norm one expects to deviate from.
I think of translations as passing some scholarly smell test: you can read the words of the translation and be reasonably sure of what the words are in the original.
To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.
One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term 'reform' is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament.
Mistress, I have never asked anything of you in my servitude. But now, I beg you this: do not make me keep passing these adolescent sentiments back and forth all night.
Time overlaps itself. A breath breathed from a passing breeze is not the whole wind, neither is it just the last of what has passed and the first of what will come, but is more--let me see--more like a single point plucked on a single strand of a vast spider web of winds, setting the whole scene atingle. That way; it overlaps. . . as prehistoric ferns grow from bathtub planters.
It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.
Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year.
Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.
In high school, every last one of the passing schemes was designed for me.
Enough of passivity and passing time while waiting for the boy friend, the girl friend, the Goddess, or the Revolution.
Sometimes you're traveling a highway, the only road you've ever known and wham! A semi comes from nowhere and rolls right over you. Sometimes you dont wake up. But if you happen to you know things will never be the same. Sometimes that's not so bad. Sometimes lives instersect, no rhyme, no reason, except, perhaps, for a passing semi.
There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are passing now in the hope of getting better things.
I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.
You can teach all the other stuff, you know. You can teach shooting the ball, you can teach having a good touch. . . passing and whatnot, but when you get out there on the field, it's just a mindset you need to go into the game with.
Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.