We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.

College kids seem to look younger with every passing year. It’s one of the hazards of growing older.

Man is a flux of states of consciousness, a flow of passing thoughts, each thought of self another self, a myriad thoughts, a myriad selves, a continual becoming but never being, a will-of-the-wisp flitting of ghosts in ghostland.

I am a believer in passing the ball on the ground, I was lucky to be part of teams like that at Arsenal, with the French national team and with Monaco and at Barcelona. I know you can win in other ways, but I believe that is the way football should be played.

He really started out unbelievably to lead 4-1, but I knew that my shots were going too short and that I had to start hitting deeper. From then on I think I returned well, had some good passing shots.

It’s not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It’s not heading for the punchline, and also it’s not about scoring goals. It’s about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves.

Let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you. All things are passing. God alone remains

Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper-weight had been lifted from people’s ideas, and as if at once they had begun to blow about anyhow.

She had thought she arrived. But life was always arriving. There was always another gate to pass through. (Until, of course, there wasn’t.)

I served, she came to the net, it was a passing shot.

You will look down at the cup, and the tea will be gone

But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender joy; instead of young, ebullient blood comes a mild, serene old age: I bless the sun’s rising each day and my heart sings to it as before, but now I love its setting even more, its long slanting rays, and with them quiet, mild, tender memories, dear images from the whole of a long and blessed life–and over all is God’s truth, moving, reconciling, all-forgiving!

Time was not passing…it was turning in a circle.

I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass – which is better than trying to fill them.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

In this dark world, the Lord Jesus gave us the task of passing on His love

My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you’re in it there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop a plane, you can’t stop a storm, you can’t stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.

Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don’t get up gentlemen. I’m only passing through!

Drink wine and look at the moon
and think of all the civilisations
the moon has seen passing by.

Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?