#passing

some mornings... I sit at the kitchen table shaking salt into the hairs on my arm, and a feeling shoves up in me: it's finished. Everything went past without me. ↗

— Jennifer Egan

#time-passing #life

For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#afternoon #boy #coal #everyday #everyday lives

True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#await #born #i #i am #nobly

Praising the Lord and passing the ammunition are mutually exclusive ideas. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#exclusive #ideas #lord #mutually #mutually exclusive

To win those big games you're going to have to complete some third-down passes, you're going to have to be able to get some explosive games in the passing game. ↗

— Tony Dungy

#big #complete #explosive #game #games

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#destructive #enforced #government #land #law

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#became #columbia #columbia university #drop #expected

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#awe-inspiring #clearly #far #far away #friend

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation. ↗

— Conor Cruise O'Brien

#flicker #his #history #horror #indignation

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#amendment #compromise #constitution #embodied #expedient