Quotes About Passage

They were doors large enough to have admitted an entire cathedral from one of the ancient religions. Passing through them was said to reduce a pilgrim's soul to motedom, sufficiently small that it could pass through the eye of a needle and enter heaven.

Now air can get through.

Say, Joe, I know where you can book passage!" "Where?" "At Klack's Agency. It's not far from here. Next block." He led the way to a dingy-looking establishment with several blackboards in the window. On them were chalked such legends as Cook Wanted, Fireman (First Class) for S.A., Cruise and Stokers Wanted. "A lot of freighter crews are signed up here," Biff explained. "I've heard they book passengers as a sideline.

Unlike a novel, where you expect a different kind of arc that leaves us with a somber sense of resolution, I think a story in some ways as like a train window: being able to watch the landscape pass for a certain amount of time. And then your stop arrives, and you have to leave.

A stream is an object that takes information from one source and sends it somewhere else, taking its name from water streams that take squids, boats, chickens, sheep, and industrial pollutants from one place to another. Streams

The "captain" says that when I came to engage passage in the Quaker City I "seemed to be full of whiskey, or something," and filled his office with the "fumes of bad whiskey" . . . [F]or a ceaseless, tireless, forty-year public advocate of total abstinence the "captain" is a mighty good judge of whiskey at second-hand.28

The wise interpreter allows his knowledge of genres to control how he approaches each biblical passage. In this way, he can accurately determine what the biblical author was intending to communicate to the reader.

Minute by minute, a day passed.

We are time's containers.

Soarele având de trecut prin prea multe lucruri, nu-i las? str?zii decât o lumin? tomnatec? însoÅ£it? de regrete ÅŸi nori.

Time is always precious," Hirianthial said softly. "Only if you fill it with something," Sascha said. "Otherwise it's marking the hours.

We kill time; time buries us.

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole.

Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away.

I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.

My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.

But forasmuch as the Passage was wonderful narrow ... it showed me that none could enter into Life, but those that were in downright earnest, and unless also they left this wicked World behind them; for here was only room for Body and Soul, but not for Body and Soul, and Sin.

So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

I wanted to breathe new life into the timeless trend of past, present and future. These unique designs celebrate the bride and groom's passage through their new life together.

Through each passage and each season, may you trust the goodness f life.

Sometimes in life it is most wise to behave like a bridge: Don't judge the person who comes to you; let him come and pass! Behave like a bridge!

All life passes like a fast flowing river and how strange to see that happiness increases this speed! Yes, a happy life passes faster!

The birth takes place without a dress; whereas, burial travels with the shroud.