#passes

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows. ↗

— Charles Reade

#deeds #earth #great #men #men and women

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. ↗

— Leon Edel

#fade #his #house #inner #into

Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores. ↗

— Arthur Chapman

#dwells #envy #fly #like #parts

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error. ↗

— Raymond Aron

#error #intellectual #most #often #optimism

My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it. ↗

— Julian Barbour

#change #could #deduce #developed #exists

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false. ↗

— Pierre Bayle

#down #entirely #false #generation #illusion

It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy. ↗

— Marian Burros

#beef #done #get #gravy #hold

If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#become #come #concern #concerned #continued

If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure. ↗

— Steve Earle

#leisure #passes #such #thing #workaholic

Some people may get in to the building without the proper passes and things, but I think that's the price you pay for being an open place for people to come. ↗

— Margo MacDonald

#building #come #get #i #i think