Passing By Quotes

• Right now a moment of time is passing by!... We must become that moment.

  Paul Cezanne

  Moments, That Moment, Passings

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• Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Life, Wisdom

  Letter in New York Times 29 Apr. 1930

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• Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Life, Time, Passing On

  Proverbs in Porcelain (1877) "Paradox of Time"

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• Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Strong, Time, Rivers

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (43), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Are you a King? Are you an Emperor? Can you stop the days passing by? If you cannot, you are nothing!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kings, Emperor, Passings

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• I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Joy

  The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 5 1947-1955: Vol. 5 (1947-1955) (p. 272), Mach 26, 1975.

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• the earth is not my home, I'm just passing by

  Tom Waits

  Home, Earth, Passings

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• I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die.

  Robert Menzies

  Love, Passings, Dies

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• Dont look to the sky for fireworks when you can watch them light up in the eyes of all the people passing by.

  Tyler Kent

  Eye, Light, Sky

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• She could've stared into those eyes for a thousand years and never noticed the time passing by.

  Ilona Andrews

  Eye, Years, Time Passing

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Bayou Moon”, p.76, Penguin

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• I saw the spires of Oxford As I was passing by, The gray spires of Oxford Against a pearl-gray sky. My heart was with the Oxford men Who went abroad to die.

  Winifred Mary Letts

  Heart, Men, Sky

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• ...The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Romantic, Girl, Eye

  "Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel García Márquez, www.elle.com. 1985.

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• There’s something beautiful and very circular about passing by something that was important to the person you loved, or touching something that once meant something to him — that brings me some peace.

  Nate Berkus

  Beautiful, Touching, Important

  "Nate Berkus: Why You Should Break the Rules When Decorating Your Home". Interview with Lisa Kogan, www.oprah.com.

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• If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and who is not.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Able, Fool, Arguing

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• Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by.

  Rich Mullins

  Sky, Sun, Made

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• For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy.

  Nick Clooney

  Boys, Thinking, Everyday

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• As a designer, you are flattered to see anyone in one of your designs, whether it's on a red carpet or passing by you in the market. It's this wonderful little high every time.

  Lauren Conrad

  Design, Littles, Red

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• I was leaving the Belfast court, where I had been called to answer a very flimsy charge, later dismissed. You're relatively safe in such areas in the Irish community, but to go to downtown Belfast for me is dangerous. My appearance in court had been well advertised by the police. I think it was too much of a coincidence that the people who shot me were just passing by.

  Gerry Adams

  Thinking, People, Community

  Source: business.highbeam.com

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• The beauty of a house by the lake side in the middle of wilderness can best be appreciated not by those who permanently live in the house but by the travellers passing by!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Lakes, House, Sides

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• Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress." And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, "Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without." At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, "Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty."

  Khalil Gibran

  Beauty, Pain, Oysters

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• Mother loved the wind. When I was growing up, she would recite this poem to me. Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I, But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by. So it is with God.

  Alice Steinbach

  Love, Mother, Growing Up

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• ... there is clearly expressed for us? what it is we must attribute either to free will or to the decision and daily assistance of the Lord. We are characterized by whether we respond zealously or lackadaisically to the kindly dispensations of God. This perspective is plainly expressed in the healing of the two blind men. Jesus was passing by, a fact made possible by God's provident grace. And the achievement of their own faith and belief was to cry out 'Lord, son of David, have mercy on us' (Mt. 20:31). The restored sight of their eyes is the gift of divine mercy.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Jesus, Eye

  John Cassian, Colm Luibhéid (1985). “Conferences”, p.98, Paulist Press

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• I don't love CDs more than anything else, but I was just playing around with the idea that they could be something you're momentarily keeping hold of as everything is passing by.

  Alexis Taylor

  Cds, Ideas, Playing Around

  "Hot Chip". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 8, 2012.

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• I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that.

  Michael Caine

  Successful, Thinking, Secret

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• I love riding on a bus now because you're looking down on the world from not too high of an angle, but people on the street rarely look up into the bus. They're sort of oblivious to this big giant machine, you know, passing by. So there's something very beautiful about the angle that you look at the world through.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Beautiful, People, Riding

  Source: www.npr.org

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