#passing

Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing, Leave a house empty, it rots. ↗

— Ovid

#time #time-passing #beauty

It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing. ↗

— Howard Carter

#never #precedent #seeing #sight #surpassing

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. ↗

— Helen Keller

#able #another #because #difference #i

Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld. ↗

— Henry Williamson

#birds #childhood #devon #everywhere #eyes

Which of us is not saying to himself which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: " I shall alter that when I have a little more time"? We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#time #time-passing #life

I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by. ↗

— Serena Williams

#just #life #losing #me #passing

Life can't be divided into chapters...only minutes. The events of your life are all crammed together one minute right after the other without any time lapses or blank pages or chapter breaks because no matter what happens life just keeps going and moving forward and words keep flowing and truths keep spewing whether you like it or not and life never lets you pause and just catch your fucking breath. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#life-lessons #time-passing #life

For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for drug crimes and sex offenses and requiring prisoners to serve more time. ↗

— Mel Carnahan

#cracking #crime #crimes #down #laws

Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance. ↗

— Paul Martin

#canada #cities #distance #down #endless

You don't create jobs by passing bills, you create jobs by cutting taxes. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#create #cutting #jobs #passing #taxes