Quotes about pass
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“Don't pass it by--the immediate, the real, the only, the yours.”

“Years passed; and he endured the idleness of his intelligence and the inertia of his heart.”
Source: Sentimental Education

Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002), Chapter 12
Context: Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through, is now like something from the distant past. We're so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past, like ancient stars that have burned out, are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about every day, too many new things we have to learn. New styles, new information, new technology, new terminology... But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone. And for me, what happened in the woods that day is one of these.

“Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.”
16 August 1925
Enough Rope (1926)

“If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.”

“We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.”
Source: The Vampire Lestat

Speech at the opening of an art exhibition at Bolton Mechanics' Institution (7 December 1868)
Variant: When they passed the centaur king’s cell, Volós pointed at Regin and slid his forefinger across his throat.
She replied, “Hey, didn’t I see you in a donkey show down in Tijuana? No? You’ve got a twin then—
Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior

Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“Seth trotted over to Kendra. Bringing good luck as usual
It was a weak pass okay”
Source: Rise of the Evening Star

“Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God.”

“I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.”
Early career years (1898–1929)
Source: The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War (1898), Chapter III.
Source: Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-time Eater

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

“The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.”
Wired interview http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.09/stewart.html?pg=2&topic=stewart&topic_set=, September 13, 2005
Context: The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom. That's all it is. All those media companies say, "We're going to make a killing here." You won't because it's still only as good as the content.
“If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much.”
Source: 84, Charing Cross Road

“In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.”
Of Revenge
Essays (1625)
Variant: 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.

“Don't get up gentlemen. I'm only passing through!”

“You know things have gone bad when military marches pass for pop music.”
Source: Witch & Wizard

“the earth is not my home, I'm just passing by”

“Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,
Be not afraid of my body.”
Source: Leaves of Grass

“Yield to temptation… it may not pass your way again!”

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness”
Bk. I, l. 1
Endymion (1818)
Context: A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

Who Has Seen the Wind? http://www.repeatafterus.com/title.php?i=1191, st. 2 (1872).

“It passes, but it does not pass away.”

“We do not pass through the same door twice
Or return to the door through which we did not pass”
Source: Magic Breaks
Source: The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall
Source: Kindred Spirits

“We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.”
Source: The Magnetic Fields
Source: Froi of the Exiles

“But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.”
The Time Keeper
Variant: But you grab a moment, or you let it pass.
He let it pass.
Source: Scandalous Lovers

“opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through.”
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“A Gallagher Girl's real grades don’t come in pass or fail—they're measured in life or death.”
Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy