#passage

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. ↗

— Walter Pater

#awakening #beautiful #beauty #book #confessions

On my passage thither, I discovered nothing remarkable in the features of the country. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#discovered #features #i #nothing #passage

We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies. ↗

— Janet Reno

#building #carry #disabilities #forward #international

House passage is good news for the Northwest corner and our environment. ↗

— Nancy L. Johnson

#environment #good #good news #house #news

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#fine #meet #out #over #particularly

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

#copying #done #encyclopedia #had #hardest

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#important #laws #legislators #live #more

All young people believed they were immortal, and he had personal experience of the methods they used to cull themselves - base-jumping, sky-diving, hard drugs, alcohol. Over the years he'd come to see solid sense in the ways so-called savage peoples formalised their rituals of manhood; without such regulation, young men seemed compelled to invent their own, even more lethal, rites of passage. ↗

— Alison Fell

#young-men #experience

No thought is a stupid thought, those who are thoughtless are thought of as stupid. ↗

— Nate Spears

#nate-spears #passage #poet #poetry #quote

One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#inspirational #rites-of-passage #inspirational