#passage

Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. ↗

— John Donne

#inconstancy #instability #love #passage-of-time #precariousness

Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#nights #passage-of-time #time #dreams

America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#face #land #lifts #nation #passage

Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate; they didn't want to change the health care they had; they didn't want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship. ↗

— Fred Upton

#bill #bureaucrats #care #change #decide

Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#bible #carry #go #like #over

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#castles #compatible #homely #i #muse

Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage. ↗

— Gemma Ward

#history #kind #lots #models #passage

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? ↗

— Walt Whitman

#against #aside #disputed #great #learned

Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act. ↗

— Roger Wicker

#action #agencies #been #before #decisive

Actors do have good and bad sides. It's because the passage down the birth canal distorts the face. People born by caesarean section are more symmetrical. ↗

— Richard Griffiths

#because #birth #born #canal #distorts