#passe

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows. ↗

— Charles Reade

#deeds #earth #great #men #men and women

A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#day #desolation #every #every day #exile

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. ↗

— Leon Edel

#fade #his #house #inner #into

Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores. ↗

— Arthur Chapman

#dwells #envy #fly #like #parts

My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it. ↗

— Julian Barbour

#change #could #deduce #developed #exists

I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away. ↗

— Mac Davis

#back #been #colonel #elvis #first

I was shot down by a fifth ball, which struck me squarely in the face, and passed out. ↗

— John Brown Gordon

#down #face #fifth #i #me

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false. ↗

— Pierre Bayle

#down #entirely #false #generation #illusion

For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#away #change #children #completion #compulsory

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge. ↗

— Julian Bond

#entered #into #legal #passed #period