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  • Prayer is the passport to peace. -- Thomas S. Monson
  • Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
  • My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day. -- John Steinbeck
  • Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. -- Al Gore
  • When you represent a club it's about values and qualities, not about passports. -- Arsene Wenger
  • If you actually look like your passport photo, you aren't well enough to travel. -- Vivian Fuchs
  • One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport. -- Jon Anderson
  • Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. -- Malcolm X
  • The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card. -- E. L. Doctorow
  • You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness. -- Diane von Furstenberg
  • There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo. -- Erma Bombeck
  • My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast. -- Julie Burchill
  • In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. -- Herman Melville
  • From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. This is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions to our feelings are our passport to rebirth. -- Ayya Khema
  • Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport. -- David Ben-Gurion
  • I think those who say that you can't tango if you are not Argentine are mistaken. Tango was an immigrant music... so it does not have a nationality. It's only passport is feeling. -- Carlos Gavito
  • Should such an ignorant people lead the world? How did it come to this in the first place? 82 percent of us don't even have a passport! Just a handful can speak a language other than English. -- Michael Moore
  • The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave. Imagine you're lying in your coffin....Now look at your problems from that viewpoint. Changes everything, doesn't it? -- Anthony de Mello
  • Here in America, marriage still has a mystical, intangible power: It is a passport to adulthood and respectability and to a certain extent citizenship. Any relationship less than "married" is considered temporary and not worthy of honor. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
  • In my hand luggage I always have my camera, iPod, make-up bag, tooth brush, cleansing products, clean underwear, socks and a change of clothes in case anything goes missing at the other end - and of course my passport. -- Lisa Snowdon
  • I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody. -- Joanna Lumley
  • Cinema is universal, beyond flags and borders and passports. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
  • We should revoke passports from any Americans or dual citizens who are fighting with ISIS. -- Rand Paul
  • I have a British passport, but the rest of my family have Indian passports, and I am Indian. -- Amit Bhatia
  • I believe that human beings are born first and given passports later. I'm really thankful for my journey. And it's a journey I didn't design. -- Alfonso Cuaron
  • I'm a dual citizen, as are my husband and children. We have got eight passports between us; we're weighed down by them whenever we go anywhere. -- Emily Mortimer
  • Our U.S. audience is composed of globally-minded Americans, an elite category, the ones who do have passports, the decision-makers, senior ranks in the administration, senators on Capitol Hill. -- Lionel Barber
  • In 1983, all of us had U.S. passports, but because there was so much tension between America and the U.S.S.R., we were announced as a Canadian group. -- Paul Horn
  • Consular cards were not designed to be identification and no treaty recognizes them as such. Legal travelers, visitors and long-term residents carried passports, visas or green cards for that purpose. -- Elton Gallegly
  • The birds never needed passports... We always thought, the birds can go wherever they want, and we couldn't, really. The birds were very much the symbol of... free movement for me. -- Peter Sis
  • However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries. -- Ibrahim Rugova
  • The freedom I have as a U.S. citizen is unparalleled. Despite the fact people may not like American passports, having that passport affords me more freedoms than any other passport could. -- Chris Cornell
  • With the enhancements to the security of the passport document itself that biometric technology will bring, it is time to make equivalent enhancements to the process of establishing identity before issuing passports. -- Des Browne
  • In Russia we had to have special visas in our passports, and when we had to show our passports at the Kremlin gates, we realized that, Oh my God, we're actually playing in THE Kremlin! -- Alan Parsons
  • With my first pay cheque I sent my parents to Jamaica, so they actually got passports! They're pretty grounded; it wasn't until they saw the trailer for 'Battleship' that they were like, 'Ooh, this is a big movie, isn't it?' -- Brooklyn Decker
  • I was born too late to have any temptation with communism, or at least Soviet-type communism. Travelling in Eastern Europe and the ex-Soviet Union, you clearly don't want to defend a system that would have empty shops and a totalitarian regime and internal passports. -- Thomas Piketty
  • To me, terrorists should not be able to hide behind their passports and their citizenship, and that includes U.S. citizens, whether they are overseas or whether they are here in the United States. What we need to do is to apply the appropriate tool and the appropriate response. -- John O. Brennan
  • If I were king of the world, babies born in airplanes, balloons and blimps would, instead of choosing to be German, Maldivian or American, all get special heavenly blue passports with a stork on the cover labeled 'Sky Baby' - and they'd be allowed to come and go anywhere they please. -- Robert Krulwich
  • The ability to send applications by post allows fraudsters to apply in false or stolen identities without fear of arrest and to make multiple applications in the hope of getting one through. It allows the possibility of passports being applied for with the photographs of people who are outside the U.K. and seeking to enter illegally. -- Des Browne
  • I always used to travel without a passport case, and because of it I think I'm four passports in. I bought this small Tumi case to protect my new one, and it works really well, not just for protecting it but also for keeping credit cards and small stuff. I just throw it in my bag when I'm traveling, as opposed to stuffed in my pocket. -- Avicii
  • Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it? -- Yann Martel
  • Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders. -- Rabindranath Tagore
  • I deny their credentials as whales; and have presented them with their passports to quit the Kingdom of Cetology." -- Herman Melville
  • White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, codebooks, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks. -- Peggy McIntosh
  • But complex people are never certain that they are not crooks, never certain their passports are quite in order, and are, therefore, unnerved by the slightest thing. -- Elizabeth Bowen
  • Bharat for Bhutan and Bhutan for Bharat. The colour of our passports may be different but our thinking is the same. India stands committed to Bhutan's happiness and progress. -- Narendra Modi
  • I do believe deeply that all human beings, male and female, are sexual beings, most likely bisexual beings channeled this way and that by cultures terrified of boundary crossings without passports stamped gay or straight. -- Robin Morgan
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