#passe

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#battle #chance #crisis #game #life

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through. ↗

— Ieyasu Tokugawa

#arise #days #desires #extremity #heart

There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#application #apply #brakes #car #democratic

Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#does #even #flies #happiest #like

I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law. ↗

— Walter Wager

#first #i #law #never #passed

I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you. ↗

— Jane Wagner

#before #bet #dying #i #life

My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#bowed #country #enemy #highest #nation

One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live. ↗

— Nik Wallenda

#generation #generations #give #live #never

Everyone comes up to me saying, 'Cooee, Julie! Hello!' as if I know them. Of course I don't bloody know them. Am I flummoxed by it? Sometimes. I think, 'Ooh, love, go easy.' For a time, I did feel this pressure that I had to be funny, but it passes. ↗

— Julie Walters

#bloody #comes #course #did #easy

Time passes faster and faster, but with every project I always want to find the next challenge and the next challenge is just as exciting as the previous one. ↗

— Alexander Wang

#challenge #every #exciting #faster #find