Passages Quotes

Passages Quote of the day

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia

There are secret passages all around you if you know where to look for them.

The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road.

Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.

If I repeated some passages from the homilies of the Church Fathers, in the second or third century, about how we must treat the poor, some would accuse me of giving a Marxist homily.

For Christians, the problem is not how to reconcile homosexuality with scriptural passages that condemn it, but how to reconcile the rejection and punishment of homosexuals with the love of Christ.

History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

Apertures, passages from one world to another. Man's escape hatches.

The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.

To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.

The moment you make the internal changes necessary to obtain your goal, the outside world changes instantly.

Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.

The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident.

If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.

It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground.

The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.

I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!

Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit.

We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies.

Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage.

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.

There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

You are not alone in your quest to be who you want and have what you want.

The events that occur in my life are workout situations. They are there for my benefit so I can become strong and gain wisdom and information by working my way through those situations.

You don't need to be a scientist to know how powerful your imagination is.

There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it.

There are passages of the Bible that are soiled forever by the touches of the hands of ministers who delight in the cheap jokes they have left behind them.

I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get lost there more, the more that I go. Like it's getting to know me and revealing new passages.

I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.

Never can a room look comfortable without books ... Books ought to be scattered all over the house, even in the passages, in the bedroom, les livres du chevet, everywhere.

A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.

Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox.

You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

You own a dog with the knowledge that it will move through the stages of existence in fast forward, providing you with a lesson about your own life passages if you let it.

In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.

At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.

You look older.” “Yes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person.

Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.

Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest.

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'

Death is the least civilized rite of passage.