Quotes About Passing

The priesthood is not dying, but the clerical state is dead. It needs to be buried, preferably with a Viking funeral in Boston Harbor so nobody can miss the spectacle of its passing.

When I am behind and I am looking ahead and there is that line in front of you, of that guy, of winning and losing, then I really hang it out there and take big risks to make the speed up, and then I'm pretty good at passing.

If you do an outside spin with the ball, it's more difficult to control it, so I try to pass it in a way that allows them to take the ball quicker in their path. That way, they may have more of an advantage to score or create themselves.

Because in a split second, it's gone.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

Life is fleeting, " Samuel said. "A short leap, in the eye of the Eternal, from dust to dust. May you pass it together.

After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine.

Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

I saw the spires of Oxford As I was passing by, The gray spires of Oxford Against a pearl-gray sky. My heart was with the Oxford men Who went abroad to die.

Passing is your best weapon against man to man. Dribble penetration is your best weapon against zone.

When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.

Then he walked home and died.

As if aware of her desire and her hesitation, Clare remarked thoughtfully: "You know, 'Rene, I've often wondered why more colored girls, girls like you and Margaret Hammer and Esther Dawson and—oh, lots of others—never 'passed' over.

Life passes by now like the scenery outside a car window. I breathe and eat and sleep as I always did, but there seems to be no great purpose in my life that requires active participation on my part...I do not know where I am going or when I will get there.

Yes, I would become upset when you forgot to take out the garbage, but that is not a real argument. That is nothing. It passes like a leaf blown by the window. It is over and done and it is forgotten quickly.

He knew exactly what the ancients meant when they said one lifemate could not survive the passing of the other. He would not want to live in the world without her. There would be no Mikhail without Raven.

That is what War is, I thought: two ships pass each other, and nobody waves his hand.

Time passeth swift away; Our life is frail, and we may die to-day.

The only certainty is that, eventually, all things shall pass.

The hourglass runs low...

Death comes for the dead.

Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.

You spend a life seeking the Opportunity, without realizing that the decisive moment, the moment that justifies birth and death, has already passed. It will not return, but it was - full, dazzling, generous as every revelation.

Now he was passing from the playing space with no role left to play but this last one of dying, that comes to all.