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  • When you find the way/ others will find you./ Passing by on the road/ they will be drawn to your door./ The way that cannot be heard/ will be echoed in your voice./ The way that cannot be seen/ will be reflected in your eyes. -- Laozi
  • I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by. -- Serena Williams
  • Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter. -- Nadine Gordimer
  • You don't create jobs by passing bills, you create jobs by cutting taxes. -- Carly Fiorina
  • Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. -- Omar N. Bradley
  • Congress first took action against steroids by passing The Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990. -- Jim Sensenbrenner
  • The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer. -- Horatio Alger
  • It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite. -- Soren Kierkegaard
  • Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young. -- Jaclyn Smith
  • Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by. -- Christina Rossetti
  • I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that. -- Barack Obama
  • Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year. -- Dylan Moran
  • Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are. -- Robert Bresson
  • The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet. -- William Butler Yeats
  • I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid. -- Brian May
  • The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal. -- Al Gore
  • We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number. -- Nathaniel Smith
  • It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment. -- Adrian Cronauer
  • To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds. -- Petrarch
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  • Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by -- Yann Martel
  • the earth is not my home, I'm just passing by -- Tom Waits
  • You can't get from A to Z by passing up B. -- Nick Saban
  • fight with fear- can possible by passing through it with courage. -- lity munshi
  • These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • If you are not moving forward, the world is passing you by. -- John C. Maxwell
  • I was just passing by. Saw the commotion. Figured you were involved. -- Darynda Jones
  • Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by. -- Arthur Golden
  • Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. -- J. K. Rowling
  • Right now a moment of time is passing by!... We must become that moment. -- Paul Cezanne
  • That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation. -- Bradford Cox
  • Heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility. -- Rudolf Steiner
  • I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die. -- Robert Menzies
  • Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie. -- Steven Pressfield
  • Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil. -- Otto von Bismarck
  • By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence. -- Terence McKenna
  • Progress is only possible by passing from a state of undifferentiated wholeness to differentiation of parts. -- Ludwig von Bertalanffy
  • The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer." -- Horatio Alger
  • The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours. -- Marcus Aurelius
  • Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time. -- Mario Puzo
  • Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by. -- Elizabeth Bishop
  • She could've stared into those eyes for a thousand years and never noticed the time passing by. -- Ilona Andrews
  • Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it. -- Robert Breault
  • Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? -- John Cage
  • Becoming an artist is about sitting and paying attention to the world that is passing everyone else by -- Blaine Hogan
  • My love is unique an none can rival her. Just by passing, she has already stolen away my heart. -- Michelle Moran
  • Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. -- Oswald Chambers
  • Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives. -- Gerald Durrell
  • [On Venice:] A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola. -- Sylvia Pankhurst
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  • Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by. -- Rich Mullins
  • You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look. -- Karin Slaughter
  • January has only one thing to be said for it: it is followed by February. Nothing so well becomes its passing. -- Katharine Tynan
  • Life is passing you by as you speak, you're on a path and you're all on the same path toward death. -- Emily Haines
  • It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit. -- Victor Hugo
  • Are you a King? Are you an Emperor? Can you stop the days passing by? If you cannot, you are nothing! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • I feel like my life is just passing me by like two ships in the night. And I have missed both boats. -- Jane Wagner
  • We must stop setting our sights by the light of each passing ship; instead we must set our course by the stars. -- George C. Marshall
  • If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and who is not. -- Wilma Mankiller
  • A man descending is propelled by inertia; the only initiative left him is whether or not he decides to enjoy the passing scene. -- Guy Vanderhaeghe
  • We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent. -- Mooji
  • The Americans' clothes were meanwhile passing through poison gas. Body lice and bacteria and fleas were dying by the billions. So it goes." -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow in your arms. -- Neil A. Maxwell
  • Dont look to the sky for fireworks when you can watch them light up in the eyes of all the people passing by. -- Tyler Kent
  • The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen. -- Claude Bernard
  • You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms. -- Neal A. Maxwell
  • Every single day I want you to be happy and full of joy, just like you make me happy by just passing through my mind. -- Donna White
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  • The Medicine Man, taking his music with him, is passing quietly into the Great Silence, where the old songs were "Received in Dreams" by "inner-plane communication." -- Frances Densmore
  • Steve Jobs was not only the heart and soul of Apple, he was the wind underneath the technology market. Both are significantly diminished by his passing. -- Rob Enderle
  • My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • To despond is to lie ungrateful beforehand. Be not looking for evil. Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • Time to improve is limited. The clock is always on and doesn't care if you don't feel like it. Someone else does and they're passing you by. -- William James Moore
  • The biggest sin against the poor and the hungry is perhaps indifference, making believe we do not see, passing by on the other side of the street. -- Raniero Cantalamessa
  • One senses the figures as passing by the tree line and, caught in the presence of the wall, turning to gaze upon it almost as a vision. -- Frederick Hart
  • What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus. -- Haruki Murakami
  • For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result. -- Aristotle
  • Well-observed facts, though brought to light by passing theories, will never die; they are the material on which alone the house of science will at last be built. -- Claude Bernard
  • Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits. It is not your passing inspirations or brilliant ideas so much as your everyday mental habits that control your life. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Never in my life had I felt so tangibly and with such astonishment that hate, by passing successively through comprehension, mercy, and sympathy, can be transformed into love. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
  • It's passing strange that Obama, carried to a second term by women, blacks and Latinos, chooses to give away the plumiest Cabinet and White House jobs to white dudes. -- Maureen Dowd
  • We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down;The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown.. -- John Keats
  • Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record and preserve the very passing of Time? -- Joyce Carol Oates
  • I saw the spires of Oxford As I was passing by, The gray spires of Oxford Against a pearl-gray sky. My heart was with the Oxford men Who went abroad to die. -- Winifred Mary Letts
  • I don't love CDs more than anything else, but I was just playing around with the idea that they could be something you're momentarily keeping hold of as everything is passing by. -- Alexis Taylor
  • I thought again how you could never really know what you were seeing with just a glance, in motion, passing by. Good or bad, right or wrong. There was always so much more. -- Sarah Dessen
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  • The beauty of a house by the lake side in the middle of wilderness can best be appreciated not by those who permanently live in the house but by the travellers passing by! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy. -- Anais Nin
  • As a designer, you are flattered to see anyone in one of your designs, whether it's on a red carpet or passing by you in the market. It's this wonderful little high every time. -- Lauren Conrad
  • ...The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • I've been aware of the time passing by they say in the end it's the wink of an eye and when the morning light comes streaming in you'll get up and do it again -- Jackson Browne
  • Long walks force a certain meditative awareness. You're not moving so fast that you miss the world's details passing by - in fact, you can stop to inspect something that might catch your eye. -- John Battelle
  • One time, just passing by, I happened to see Jack White from the White Stripes. I'm a huge White Stripes fan, and I did a whole 180. It was like my jaw hit the ground. -- Reid Scott
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