#passe

After my parents passed away - in 2000 and 2003 - I felt I could take the time to think about the past and imagine what it would have been like to be my grandmother. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#after #away #been #could #felt

But the debt limit obviously is something that needs to and will be passed. That is not inconsistent with a process and a belief that we have to get significant deficit reduction. ↗

— David Plouffe

#debt #debt limit #deficit #deficit reduction #get

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#finding #investigative #journalism #literally #otherwise

The tract through which we passed is generally very good land, with plenty of water; and there, as well as here, the country is neither rocky nor overrun with brush-wood. ↗

— Junipero Serra

#generally #good #here #land #neither

I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#believe #best #cities #english #equal

You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#because #catcher #likely #lot #passed

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#come #crying #house #love #many

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#being #first #opposed #passes #ridiculed

Now, two years have passed and the situation is completely different: no one wants to organise this match. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#different #match #now #organise #passed

I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam. ↗

— Carre Otis

#bar #born #dad #eighteen #exam