Passages Quotes - Page 7

• That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors.

  Kelly Corrigan

  Meaningful, Sometimes, Metaphor

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• I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old bindings, and stars in margins next to beautiful passages. I love exuberant underlinings that recall to me a swoon of language-love from a long-ago reading, something I hoped to remember. I love book plates, and inscriptions in gifts from loved ones, I love author signatures, and I love books sitting around reminding me of them, being present in my life, being. I love books.

  Laini Taylor

  Beautiful, Stars, Book

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• My agency in promoting the passage of the National Bank Act was the greatest financial mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly, which affects every interest in the country. It should be repealed, but before that can be accomplished, the people will be arrayed on one side and the banks on the other, in a contest such as we have never before seen in this country.

  Salmon P. Chase

  Country, Mistake, Agency

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• What is said in James 2:14 ff. is like a two-coupon train or bus ticket. One coupon says, "Not good if detached" and the other says, "Not good for passage". Works are not good for passage; but faith detached from works is not saving faith.

  Charles Caldwell Ryrie

  Christian, Prayer, Two

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• There are secret passages all around you if you know where to look for them.

  Steven Carroll

  Secret, Looks, Knows

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• There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it.

  Charles de Saint-Evremond

  Inspiring, Ingenuity, Application

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• To be human is to be aware of the passage of time; no concept lies closer to the core of our consciousness.

  Dan Falk

  Lying, Science, Technology

  Dan Falk (2010). “In Search of Time: The History, Physics, and Philosophy of Time”, p.3, Macmillan

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• You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Greatness, Suffering

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• Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him.

  A. E. Housman

  Poison, Body, Belief

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• During our journey there were two occasions that we celebrated by honoring someone's talent. Everyone is recognized by a special party, but it has nothing to do with age or birthdate - it is in recognition of uniqueness and contribution to life. They believe that the purpose for the passage of time is to allow a person to become better, wiser, to express more and more of one's beingness. So if you are a better person this year than last, and only you know that for certain, then you call for a party. When you say you are ready, everyone honors that.

  Marlo Morgan

  Birthday, Party, Believe

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• It has been jestingly said that the works of John Paul Richter are almost unintelligible to any but the Germans, and even to some of them. A worthy German, just before Richter's death, edited a complete edition of his works, in which one particular passage fairly puzzled him. Determined to have it explained at the source, he went to John Paul himself. The author's reply was very characteristic: "My good friend, when I wrote that passage, God and I knew what it meant; it is possible that God knows it still; but as for me, I have totally forgotten."

  Jean Paul

  Friendship, Good Friend, Determined

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• N.Y. Chamber of Commerce Urges Passage of Silver For War Use.

  Caryl Parker Haskins

  War, Use, Silver

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• Tattoos are a right of passage. They're a marker of bravery, of maturity, of cultural acceptance. The tattoo represents not only a willingness to accept pain - to endure it - but a need to actively embrace it. Because life is painful - beautiful but painful.

  Nicola Barker

  Tattoo, Beautiful, Pain

  Nicola Barker (2012). “The Yips: A Novel”, p.115, Open Road Media

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• Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life, Animal, Men

  Codice Atlantico 76 in The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Vol. 1, Ch. 1

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• Sandoz turned and accepted the book, looking at the spine. "Aeschylus?"
  Wordlessly, Guiuliani pointed out the passage, and Emilio studied it a while, slowly translating the Greek in his mind. Finally, he said, "In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, againstour will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."

  Mary Doria Russell

  Pain, Book, Fall

  "The Sparrow". Book by Mary Doria Russell, February 23, 2010.

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• It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything.

  E. B. White

  Love, Happiness, Sheep

  Charlotte'sWeb ch. 22 (1952)

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• Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly, for then they would satiate us and pall upon our senses. It is necessary to their appreciation that they should be rarely shown. Her finest touches are things which must be watched for; her most perfect passages of beauty are the most evanescent.

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Nature

  John Ruskin (1873). “Modern Painters”, p.64

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• Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. A beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the passage of time.

  Martin Amis

  Beautiful, Games, Perfect

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• To make it really clear and simple, let's call this movement across history we see in passages like the ones we just looked at from Exodus and Deuteronomy clicks. What we see is God meeting people at the click they're at, and then drawing them forward.When they're at F, God calls them to G.When we're at L, God calls us to M.And if we're way back there at A, God meets us way back there at A and does what God always does: invites us forward to B.

  Rob Bell

  Simple, Drawing, People

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• The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to construct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the others like a Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Book, Ambition, Exercise

  "Discussion". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 19321932.

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• Rather than accepting the drifting separation of the generations, we might begin to define a more complex and interesting set of life stages and parenting passages, each emphasizing the connections to the generations ahead and behind. As I grow older, for example, I might first see my role as a parent in need of older, mentoring parents, and then become a mentoring parent myself. When I become a grandparent, I might expect to seek out older mentoring grandparents, and then later become a mentoring grandparent.

  Richard Louv

  Grandparent, Interesting, Example

  Richard Louv (1990). “Childhood's Future”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If then, Moses so distinctly announces that there is in us not only a faculty, but also a facility for keeping all commandments, why are we sweating so much? ... What need is there now of Christ or of Spirit? We have found a passage that asserts freedom of choice, but also distinctly teaches that the keeping of the commandments is easy.

  Martin Luther

  Choices, Needs, Spirit

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• Myths are stories for our search through the ages for truth, for meaning, for significance. We all need to tell our story and to understand our story.  We all need to understand death and to cope with death, and we all need help in our passages from birth to live and then to death.  We need for life to signify, to touch the eternal, to understand the mysterious, to find out who we are.

  Joseph Campbell

  Age, Needs, Stories

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.4, Anchor

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• I wanted to breathe new life into the timeless trend of past, present and future. These unique designs celebrate the bride and groom's passage through their new life together.

  Vera Wang

  Unique, Past, Design

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• If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage, and has doubled his power to serve you, and, ere you can rise up again, will burden you with blessings.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Memories, Blessing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1456, Delphi Classics

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