#passe

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. ↗

— Auguste Comte

#department #each #knowledge #metaphysical #passes

There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good or bad, and the world's probably a better place for it. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#because #better #better place #eat #encourages

This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for. ↗

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

#article #awards #bit #ceremony #completely

I am not a passenger in anything I do. ↗

— Derek Fisher

#anything #i #i am #i do #passenger

What I wanted to do was to earn enough money to pay for my mother's house. When my mother passed away, I wanted to buy it from the rest of my family and keep the house in the family. That was the only reason I even attempted writing for money. ↗

— Dorothea Benton Frank

#away #buy #earn #enough #even

I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play. ↗

— Michael Gambon

#contented #fear #get #i #live

The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#came #curtain #dark #field #flat

When I hear that I realize how quickly time passes and how everybody goes on their journeys and they're always unbelievable and they never go where you think they're going to take you and, quite frankly, it also makes me feel a little old. ↗

— Rob Lowe

#always #everybody #feel #frankly #go