#passage

I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scripture is, 'in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.'' Matthew 25:40. ↗

— Elizabeth Warren

#church #done #favorite #grew #i

You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages. ↗

— Al Stewart

#hand #out #passages #reach #those

Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#chances #doors #entrance #exit #opportunities

They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream. ↗

— Ernest Dowson

#enjoyment #life #passage-of-time #pleasure #roses

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

One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the passage of time. One million seconds is equal to roughly eleven days and twelve hours, and one billion seconds is thirty-two years. One trillion seconds equals thirty-two thousand years. ↗

— Geoff Davis

#billion #consider #days #dollars #eleven

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

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#anger #contemporary #culture #disgust #even