#passed

I'd say that after my father passed my writing changed, it went deeper. Most would say 'matured' but I don't think I'd use that word in relation to my progress. I think 'change' is a little more accurate. ↗

— Rick Springfield

#after #change #changed #deeper #father

We had not seen any natives for many days, but a few passed the camp on the opposite side of the river on the evening of the 25th. They would not, however, come to us; but fled into the interior in great apparent alarm. ↗

— Charles Sturt

#any #apparent #camp #come #days

The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed. ↗

— Julien Green

#always #am #end #i #i am

Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#ever #fight #good #good opportunity #i

The second thing that I struck me was that people are not, contrary to popular belief, rude. Not in the slightest. In fact, most of them are exceptionally polite. What they are, however – and what is, I think, mistaken by many as rudeness – is busy. So busy you almost feel sorry for them. So busy that you wish Brita would start putting Valium in their filters. ↗

— Sarah Reiley

#business

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

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. ↗

— Diane Arbus

#aristocrats #born #dreading #experience #freaks

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

We have in the last two years, we have passed 350 legislation in the parliament, most of which deal with democratization, human rights, and of course, economy. ↗

— Bulent Ecevit

#deal #democratization #economy #human #human rights