#passed

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

When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect. ↗

— M. H. Abrams

#comes #complain #continue #effect #especially

Each of us, having received several hundred dollars, we passed the time gloriously, spending our money freely - never thinking that our lives were risked gaining it. ↗

— Kit Carson

#each #freely #gaining #gloriously #having

We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate. ↗

— Steve Chabot

#down #energy #energy bill #foreign #foreign oil

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

Once my mom passed away, I have nobody to answer to. It's great. ↗

— Jessica Hahn

#away #great #i #mom #nobody

The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to gentle their condition. They used to gather clandestinely to read the plays; on one occasion, the book was passed around for each man to mark his favourite lines. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#age #around #book #condition #each

Men who have reached and passed 45, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this. ↗

— Benjamin Haydon

#having #look #men #other #out

The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#great #great day #i #passed #say

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever. ↗

— Tokugawa Ieyasu

#arise #assurance #days #desires #extremity