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Gray skies are just clouds passing over. -- Duke Ellington
Gray skies are just clouds passing over. -- Duke Ellington
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. -- Francis Bacon
Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon. -- Francis Bacon
The issues of the day have never seemed more complicated, and yet the conversations over how to solve them increasingly resemble cars passing down a divided highway. Whizzing by without a glance. -- Lester Holt
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. -- Pablo Picasso
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
You never want to be in a position where your reader feels like you're passing judgment on your own characters. Any novel where you feel like the author is talking to the reader over the characters' heads is in a bad place. -- Jonathan Dee
A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree. -- George H. W. Bush
There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge. -- Bill Simmons
Is this year over yet? Too many people are passing away. Rest In Peace, George Michael. -- William Shatner
He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past -- Henry David Thoreau
In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior. -- Charlotte Lennox
In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it. -- Andre Malraux
The stars will wheel forth from their daytime hiding places; and one of those lights, slightly brighter than the rest, will be my wingtip passing over. -- Ryan Bingham
The best thing about time passing is the privilege of running out of it, of watching the wave of mortality break over me and everyone I know, -- Sarah Manguso
For order represents our fear and nervousness. We create ordered interiors as a protest over the passing of things, to define our mortal lives against the void of time. -- Gertrude Diamant
The question is not so much what the hand is doing (passing over some cash or a check) but what the heart is thinking while the hand is doing it. -- John Stott

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