Quotes about pass
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“I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first.
- Ender”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

Cheating

“My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I do not do it. No one lives up to his ideal.”

Natalie Goldberg (1948) American writer

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

Henry James (1843–1916) American novelist, short story author, and literary critic

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

Gustave Flaubert book Sentimental Education

Source: Sentimental Education

Intelligence, Heart

“Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.”

Alice Walker book The Color Purple

Source: The Color Purple

Time

“Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

Life

“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.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

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.

Memory, Time, Moving On

“Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

16 August 1925
Enough Rope (1926)

Men, Girl

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

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001) American aviator and author

“You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city… you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn't even know were there. Everything changes.”

Samuel R. Delany book Dhalgren

Source: Dhalgren

Change, Housing, Personality

“We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.”

Anne Rice book The Vampire Lestat

Source: The Vampire Lestat

Music, Light

“Keep passing the open windows.”

John Irving book The Hotel New Hampshire

Source: The Hotel New Hampshire

“The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Law

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”

Henry David Thoreau book Walden ou la vie dans les bois

Source: Walden

Drink, Season, Beauty, Peaceful

“Book love, my friends, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.”

Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) English novelist (1815-1882)

Speech at the opening of an art exhibition at Bolton Mechanics' Institution (7 December 1868)

Love, God, Pleasure, Books

“When they passed the centaur king's cell, Volos 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--”

Kresley Cole American writer

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

“Time will pass; these mood will pass; and I will, eventually, be myself again. But then, at some unknown time, the electrifying carnival will come back into my mind.”

Kay Redfield Jamison (1946) American bipolar disorder researcher

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

Mood, Time

“An empty frame, in which the picture is always changing, makes a statement about how time is always passing. It doesn't really stop, even in a single image. I t just feels that way.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

Way, Feeling, Change, Time

“Life is made of our attitudes. And there are certain things that the gods oblige us to live through. Their reason for this does not matter, and there is no action we can take to make them pass us by.”

Paulo Coelho book The Fifth Mountain

Source: The Fifth Mountain

Life, God

“At this moment, many people have stopped living. They do not become angry, nor cry out; they merely wait for time to pass. They did not accept the challenges of life, so life no longer challenges them”

Paulo Coelho book The Fifth Mountain

Source: The Fifth Mountain

Life, People, Time, Waiting

“Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Life, World, Color, Mood

“Seth trotted over to Kendra. Bringing good luck as usual
It was a weak pass okay”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

Source: Rise of the Evening Star

“We passed hieroglyphic scrolls, gold jewelry, sarcophagi, statues of pharaohs, and huge chunks of limestone. Why would someone display a rock? Aren't there enough of those in the world?”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

World

“I could dance with you till the cows come home. Better still, I'll dance with the cows and you come home."
Groucho Marx was never one to pass up an opportunity for a play on words and this occurs in his dialogue of the 1933 film Duck Soup:”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

Home, Dance

“A moment passed, perhaps half a second when their faces said what they felt, and then Emma was smiling, laughing, her arms around his neck.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

Smile

“Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.”

Laurie Anderson (1947) American musician

Books, World, Literature, Learning

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

Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) Roman Catholic saint

God

“He was a worried man (I'm stretching the term a bit here, I know. By now, in his mid to late teens, he might just about have passed for a man. When seen from behind. At a distance. On a very dark night).”

Jonathan Stroud book Ptolemy's Gate

Source: Ptolemy's Gate

Night

“I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.”

Winston S. Churchill book The Story of the Malakand Field Force

Early career years (1898–1929)
Source: The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War (1898), Chapter III.

Sea

“I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.”

Frank Bruni (1964) American journalist

Source: Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-time Eater

People

“We'll meet again. We'll meet when years have passed, and years make such a difference, don't they?”

Ayn Rand book We the Living

Source: We the Living

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

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist

Training

“The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.”

Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian

Wired interview http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.09/stewart.html?pg=2&topic=stewart&topic_set=, September 13, 2005 <br class="br">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.

World, Funny

“Every last souvenir of the love we had, the prizes & the debris of this relationship, like the glitter in the gutter when the parade has passed, all the everything & whatnot kicked to the curb.”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

Love

“If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much.”

Helene Hanff book 84, Charing Cross Road

Source: 84, Charing Cross Road

Kiss

“In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.”

Francis Bacon book Essays

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.

Revenge

“So passed the seasons then, so they pass now, and so they will pass in time to come, while we come and go like leaves of the tree that fall and are soon forgotten.”

Howard Pyle book The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Source: The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Tree, Time, Season

“O what a blessed day that will be when I shall… stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas I have safely passed; when I shall review my pains and sorrows, my fears and tears, and possess the glory which was the end of all!”

Richard Baxter (1615–1691) English Puritan church leader, poet, and hymn-writer

Pain, Fear, Tear, Rage

“And so it is that you learn how to pass, if you're lucky, to look like everyone else, even though you're broken inside.”

Christina Baker Kline (1964) American writer

Source: Orphan Train

Learning

“Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

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

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

“You know things have gone bad when military marches pass for pop music.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Witch & Wizard

Music

“However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return.”

Hubert Selby Jr. Requiem for a Dream

Source: Requiem for a Dream

“We are all fools blessed with the knowledge that certain events will come to pass no matter what path we take to get there. The wise ones follow their angels while they may.”

Alethea Kontis (1976) American writer

Source: Enchanted

Fools, Angels, Knowledge

“This is my temporary home
It's not where I belong
Windows and rooms that I'm passing through
This is just a stop, on the way to where I'm going
I'm not afraid because I know this is my
Temporary home”

Carrie Underwood (1983) American country music singer

Source: Play On: Piano/Vocal/Chords

Way, Home

“Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.”

William James book The Varieties of Religious Experience

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

Life, Knowledge

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

Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor

Home

“He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

Game, Reality, Memory

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

Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba

Source: Leaves of Grass

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

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

Way

“Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.”

Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) American poet

Happiness, Hope, Forgetting

“The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.”

Orson Scott Card book Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“So up I got in anger,
And took a book I had,
And put a ribbon on my hair
To please a passing lad.
And, "One thing there's no getting by --
I've been a wicked girl," said I;
But if I can't be sorry, why,
I might as well be glad!”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

Books, Girl, Anger

“It will pass, it will all pass, we're going to be so happy! If our love could grow any stronger it would grow stronger because there is something horrifying in it”

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

Love, Happiness

“How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?"
"They do it all the time," says Hayden. "That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

Education, Law, Time

“Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless.”

Mahmoud Darwich (1941–2008) Palestinian writer

Source: Absent Presence

Dreams, Night

“Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

Pain, Truth, Lie

“Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see”

Seth Grahame-Smith (1976) US fiction author

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Men, History

“'There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, "Do trousers matter?"'
‘The mood will pass, sir.’”

P.G. Wodehouse book The Code of the Woosters

Source: The Code of the Woosters (1938)

Mood

“You ever think about this? Every year you live, you pass the anniversary of your death. Now you don't know what day it is, of course.”

Billie Letts book Where the Heart Is

Source: Where the Heart Is

Death, Thinking

“No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.”

Dean Koontz book Your Heart Belongs to Me

Source: Your Heart Belongs to Me

Life

“It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone.”

Don DeLillo book White Noise

Source: White Noise

Sadness, Silence, Time

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness”

John Keats Endymion

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.

Beauty, Joy, Beauty

“Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic.”

Stephen King book Different Seasons

Source: Different Seasons

World, Time

“The numbness of his loss had passed, and the pain would hit me out of nowhere, doubling me over, racking my body with sobs. Where are you? I would cry out in my mind. Where have you gone? Of course, there was never any answer.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Pain, Loss, Cry

“Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass.”

Louise Erdrich book The Round House

Source: The Round House

Fear

“… no one who has passed through the storm has ever regretted the journey. No one stands here and wishes to go back to the other side.”

Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host

“Pass the damn ham, please.”

Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

“What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

Understanding, Reality

“Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.”

Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892-1940)

“That’s what I like about sports. No matter if everyone playing the game speaks completely different languages, on the field, or the court, wherever they are playing, the language of moves and passes and scores is all the same. Universal.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Game, Sport, Universe

“The man that I named The Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing.”

Lois Lowry book The Giver

Source: The Giver

Love, Pain, Truth, Books

“Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I:
But when the trees bow down their heads
The wind is passing by.”

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet

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

Tree

“I can't pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its jacket, or hand me over a promissory note of such immense power that it contains the formula that will change everything about me.”

Pat Conroy (1945–2016) American novelist

Source: My Reading Life

Books, Change

“The land is all too shallow
It is painted on the sky
And trembles like the wind-shook rain
When the Raven King passed by”

Susanna Clarke (1959) British author

Source: Jonathan Strange i pan Norrell. Tom 3

Painting

“Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

Way, Feeling, Bird, Singing

“Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

“Mistress, I have never asked anything of you in my servitude. But now, I beg you this: do not make me keep passing these adolescent sentiments back and forth all night.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Shadow Heir

Night

“Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Dreams, Reality

“You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.”

Karin Slaughter book Undone

Source: Undone

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

László Krasznahorkai (1954) Hungarian novelist and screenwriter

“Heaven is for thee too high
To know what passes there; be lowly wise.
Think only what concerns thee and thy being;
Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there
Live, in what state, condition, or degree,
Contented that thus far hath been revealed.”

John Milton book Paradise Lost

Source: Paradise Lost

World, Dreams, Thinking

“We do not pass through the same door twice
Or return to the door through which we did not pass”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

“If I pass out face down in this water, will you fish me out?"
"Will you promise to call me Your Majesty?"
"Hell no."
"Then I'll have to think about it.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Breaks

Hell, Thinking, Fish, Water

“The light is no mystery, the mystery is that there is something to keep the light from passing through.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

Source: Crush

Light

“Odd, isn’t it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some day…”

Mary Downing Hahn (1937) American children's writer

Source: The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall

Death, Birthday

“The truth sometimes reminds me of a city buried in sand. As time passes, the sand piles up even thicker, and occasionally it's blown away and what's below is revealed.”

Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Truth, Time

“Regin hissed at him and followed Mariketa, with Carrow right behind them. As Carrow passed Bowe, she said, “Prick. You and Twice-Baked here deserve each other.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night

“There wasn't a second that passed when you weren't on my mind. You own me, Eva. Wherever I am, whatever I'm doing, I belong to you.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Entwined with You

“Love doesn't go anywhere when you die, you know. The person passes on, the body withers, but love, it survives.”

Sarah Strohmeyer (1950) American writer

Source: Kindred Spirits

Love, Personality

“We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.”

André Breton (1896–1966) French writer

Source: The Magnetic Fields

Love, Color, Change, Dead

“How seven days had passed since she had disappeared from existence.
That it would take the eyes of the gods to find her.
Or the heart of the Lumateran exile.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Froi of the Exiles

God, Heart

“But the Silent Brothers have tried everything to separate Jace from the heavenly fire, and they can't do it. It's in his soul. So what's their plan, hitting Sebastian over the head with Jace until he passes out?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

"Brother Zachariah said pretty much the same thing. Maybe with less sarcasm."
Clary Fray and Jace Herondale, pg. 100-101
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)

Soul