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Just touching that old tree was truly moving to me because when you touch these trees, you have such a sense of the passage of time, of history. It's like you're touching the essence, the very substance of life. -- Kim Novak
Old age and the passage of time teach all things. -- Sophocles
The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time. -- James Taylor
Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. -- Arthur Ashe
The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it. -- Esther Williams
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. -- Richard Dawkins
Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time. -- Jerzy Kosinski
I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much. -- Amy Grant
The mere passage of time makes us all exiles. -- Joyce Carol Oates
The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless -- Haruki Murakami
The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
90% of what is considered "impossible" is, in fact, possible. The other 10% will become possible with the passage of time & technology. -- Hideo Kojima
Adjusting to the passage of time is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches. -- Dolly Parton
A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us. -- Rowan Williams
Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old. -- Rowan Williams
If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again. -- Guy de Maupassant
When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination. -- Rollo May
After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble. -- Richard Russo
I think the impacts of 9/11 on academic freedom vary greatly depending on locale and time (softening with the passage of time), and even within the same community, and likely within the same schools. This variability makes it difficult to offer generalized responses without accompanying caveats. -- Richard A. Falk
To me, the lasting impression of any good wine is the thought of its maker. Those whose efforts transformed the fruits of the soil into a finished work of art. Those who pulled from the hectic passage of time an ordered memory. They are immortalized by their wine in my glass. -- Dave Chambers
I'm not alive. People believe memories grow vague, are erased by time, since nothing endures against the passage of time. That's the difference; time does not pass over me, over us. It doesn't erase anything, doesn't undo it. I'm not a live. I died in Auschwitz but no one knows it. -- Charlotte Delbo
The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains. -- Julian Barbour
America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts. -- Dirk Benedict
Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches. -- Dolly Parton
Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world. -- Sydney Brenner
The passage of time is likely to make high-speed rail more and more desirable, making it critical that politicians of today think ahead to tomorrow. -- Anthony Albanese
Tennis: the most perfect combination of athleticism, artistry, power, style, and wit. A beautiful game, but one so remorselessly travestied by the passage of time. -- Martin Amis
It's time for compassionate Americans to send a wake-up call to their members of Congress and demand passage of legislation to end the wholesale slaughter of America's horses once and for all. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
Natural disasters in Bolivia have been getting worse with the passage of time. It's brought about by a system: the capitalist system, the unbridled industrialization of the resources of the Planet Earth. -- Evo Morales
A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time. -- Maya Lin
Passage of time can be mind-numbing to figure out in a screenplay. It's the easiest thing to do in prose, not just by writing 'four years later', but you can shift time in a sentence or two. -- Mark Boal
I'm reticent to say much more, but we would like to begin in the coming year. We'd like to shoot through the seasons because of the passage of time. This project is the great love of my life. -- Madeleine Stowe
I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story. -- John Irving
Memories carry thoughts through the passage of time. -- Truth Devour
Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time. -- William Cowper
Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter. -- Nadine Gordimer
Do not walk through time without leaving worthy evidence of your passage. -- Pope John XXIII
White means the strength of fragility and the fragility of the passage of time. -- Martin Margiela
The passage of time has not altered the capacity of the Redeemer to change lives. -- Thomas S. Monson
You look older." "Yes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person. -- Veronica Roth
Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time. -- Nicholas Sparks
Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time. -- Nicholas Sparks
A memorized scripture becomes an enduring friend that does not weaken with the passage of time. -- Richard G. Scott
A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do -- Randy Pausch
If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right. -- Joyce Johnson
All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time. -- Simone Weil
Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. -- Javier Bardem
Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time. -- Robert Breault
To be human is to be aware of the passage of time; no concept lies closer to the core of our consciousness. -- Dan Falk
All things pass...Perhaps the passage of time is a kind of healing, or a kind of salvation granted equally to all people. -- Mizuki Nomura
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses. -- John Irving
We store in memory only images of value. The value may be lost over the passage of time, but that's the implacable judgment of feeling. -- Patricia Hampl
From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story. -- Alberto Manguel
One thing the passage of time has shown me is that you never know how you'll behave in a situation until you're in that situation yourself. -- Christine Sneed
The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage of time, and forgiveness is everything. -- Charles Baxter
only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it. -- Anne Lamott
Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking it's passage for some reason. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party time. -- William A. Henry III
A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until it has perished. -- Carroll Quigley
It is our ability to forget our problems, through the process of thought, rather than the passage of time, that frees us from the circumstances of our past. -- Richard Carlson
A good plan will therefore include alternative actions, the choice between them being left open until the passage of time indicates which is feasible and which is not. -- Carl Eckart
In retirement, the passage of time seems accelerated. Nothing warns us of its flight. It is a wave which never murmurs, because there is no obstacle to its flow. -- Sophie Swetchine
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with the passage of time. -- Rainer Maria Rilke

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