Quotes About Passed

Monsieur Puss came at last to a stately castle, the master of which was an Ogre, the richest ever known; for all the lands which the King had then passed through belonged to this castle.

Especially when we're dealing with issues of race, culture, identity, and history, the time has passed for the 'white savior' holding the black person's hand through their own history.

Anybody who respects democracy has to keep in mind that never in this country was a separate state carved out without a resolution being passed in the assembly.

It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

Obamacare was passed months before my first day at Komen.

There were a number of referendums in '98 that most of the things I voted for passed. That's very satisfying when you feel that most of the country is in step with your views.

When I was in high school, I took French. I barely passed and didn't learn anything at all. There was a joke among me and my friends in the class that nothing sounded more ridiculous than a guy with a country accent speaking French.

All of Spain is contained in DON QUIXOTE—-a decrepit society unaware the world has passed it by.

I definitely subscribe to the idea that 9/11, to use an overused phrase, was a wake-up call. There was a year-long national teach-in on Islam - everyone read books and suddenly talked about Islam, and that was very productive. But there's no doubt that moment has passed.

It should either have passed away with my childhood, or my childhood should have flowed away from it later, leaving it behind, real among all the rest of reality, something to see and objectively tell, like a thing in Cezanne, incomprehensible for all I care, but tangible.

Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.

Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites.

We cannot have a system that everything can be passed on to the final consumer in the garb of cost being recovered without being sensitive to their own problems and affordability.

The moment had passed. But it had happened.

Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns that registers dimly on blind men's eyes, the beginning of the horror passed almost unnoticed;

Which of the horses we passed yesterday whinnied all night in my dreams? I want that one.

I skimmed. The Rev'd Canon Jonathan Billings . . . wound to the head (I shuddered and passed over

After reviewing the polygraph charts in private, the polygraph examiner told me that I had passed and that he believed I had nothing to do with the anthrax letters.

It was really a fascinating book—no wonder he hadn't noticed how fast the time had passed.

My tutors all said that the greatest of the wizards died many years ago and that their like would never be again seen in our lands." "Historians can be a pessimistic lot. I have never met one that did not believe that the world's best years had already passed.

After we were hit on September 11, 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the U.S.A. Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it.

I felt like I deserved a title shot a few times in the UFC and was kind of passed over.

Needless to say, it passed, for what group of voters ever refused to levy a tax on someone else, especially if it benefited themselves?

I like Sanders a lot...but I think his time may have passed.