#passe

All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable. ↗

— Paul Claudel

#either #everything #expression #happens #meaning

In Georgia where children work day and night in the cotton mills they have just passed a bill to protect song birds. What about the little children from whom all song is gone? ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#bill #birds #children #cotton #day

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#better #carries #countries #enjoy #fortune

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#bed #happiest #life #lying #man

I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#had #i #passed #prevented #saw

Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#everyone #failed #feeling #feels #focus

Simply raising fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks to 33 miles per gallon would eliminate our oil imports from the Persian Gulf. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#economy #eliminate #fuel #fuel economy #fuel economy standards

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by. ↗

— Maria Schell

#matter #passes #time

The president of the United States, on Inauguration Day, takes an oath to faithfully execute the laws. Those are the laws that are passed by Congress. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

#day #execute #faithfully #inauguration #laws

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple. ↗

— Bill Shankly

#ball #based #controlling #football #game