Passage Quotations

The message of Jesus is summed up partly in the Sermon on the Mount, and partly when he begins his ministry and quotes the passage from Isaiah: 'I have come to set free the prisoners and restore sight to the blind.' And certainly, his mission is also to bring hope. It was to heal people, to befriend the outcast.

The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.

When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.

We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number.

The House passage of our bill is a victory for this country! Common sense wins out. I'm just so thrilled and excited. The sale of guns must stop. Halfway measures are not enough.

It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the speed of the reading. Novels are read in a matter of days, even hours. A writer may labor for weeks over a particular passage that will have its effect on a reader for an instant - and that effect may be subliminal or barely noticed.

The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.

If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time.

On my passage thither, I discovered nothing remarkable in the features of the country.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

Probably the one Bible passage that is read by Jews and Roman Catholics, Protestants, Islam, more than any other chapter is Psalm 23. And in Psalm 23 there is a verse that says, 'Surely, yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.'

Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.

The passage of time is a continuing thing. At 18, you're going to live forever, and you are definitely not at 52, so that is a recurring topic. I still think it's the main stuff.

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.

When I was growing up in Nigeria - and I shouldn't say Nigeria, because that's too general, but in Afikpo, the Igbo part of the country where I'm from - there were always rites of passage for young men. Men were taught to be men in the ways in which we are not women; that's essentially what it is.

This is a gift. This is a gift from God. It's really like the old Biblical passage that talks about your body being a temple. That's not to say that I've never done anything but I've never abused myself. Never gone over the top for a long period of time.

Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate; they didn't want to change the health care they had; they didn't want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship.

Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.

The Mormons' passage from bugbears of the Republican Party to its stalwarts may be analogized to a similar move among middle-class white Southerners, to whom the Republican Party was anathema until the 1970s and '80s, after which it became almost the sole representative.

For many of us, owning a home signaled a passage into adulthood that coincided with the start of a career and family.

Foreseeing the needs of His children, a loving Heavenly Father placed directions and rescuers along their way. He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to make safe passage possible and visible.

We're going to have to wait a few more years before we can decide where it belongs. The fact that we don't know shows you how hard it is sometimes to tell how they're going to look with the passage of time. When a president makes a bold decision, it carries great opportunity but also great risk.

With the latest increase, New Jersey families will spend another $543 to send their children to Rutgers this year. That's an unexpected expense that will put a strain on most families' budgets. We're asking our colleagues in the state Legislature to join us in supporting this bill's passage so that this does not happen again next year. We have a historic commitment to make higher education available to our students.

We feel that this is a very appropriate resolution. You have to remember that this incident happened 17 years ago. The passage of time there are some evidentiary issues that arise and are challenges. So, the nature of the offense and where the victim is today we feel that this is a very appropriate resolution and the state and the victim are quite satisfied with the resolution.

With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.

With the passage of this resolution in the Senate, the entire U.S. Congress has made clear that the Russian government must significantly step up the fight against piracy as a condition for both its acceptance into the WTO and for receiving preferential trade benefits from the United States.

We reached an agreement with the Egyptians and the Palestinians that we will wait six more months before we consider the opening of the Rafah passage for two ways,

The fact is that since the passage of the Maryland electric industry restructuring law in 1999, BGE residential customers have benefited from a substantially lower rate structure ... well below the market rates paid in other parts of the country. BGE has no choice but to procure power at prevailing market rates. Every dollar deferred is a dollar that might not be invested in infrastructure for the utility.

When I find myself frozen - whether I'm working on a brief passage in a novel or brainstorming about an entire book - it's usually because I'm trying to shoehorn an idea into the passage or story where it has no place.

We have a responsibility to ensure that every student is given every opportunity to be prepared for, and to pass, the CASHSEE. We are exploring every possible way to work with these students to provide their passage to the next stage of their future.

LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end, as in this famous passage from Bella Peeler Silcox:The electric light invades the dunnest deep of Hades. Cries Pluto, 'twixt his snores: "O tempora! O mores!"It should be explained that Mrs. Silcox does not undertake to teach pronunciation of the Greek and Latin tongues. Leonine verses are so called in honor of a poet named Leo, whom prosodists appear to find a pleasure in believing to have been the first to discover that a rhyming couplet could be run into a single line.

Lebanon has not, and will never become a passage for conspiracy against Syria.

Many parents would be upset if their kids used drugs but many are accepting if their kid has been drinking. They consider drinking a beer as a right of passage in high school. I know of students using ecstasy all night and then they drink a beer when they get home and mom or dad smells the beer and thinks it's fine.

Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.

More than half the states now require passage of a test before awarding a high school diploma. Proponents claimed this additional hurdle would 'raise the bar' for educational quality. But SAT and ACT scores show that college readiness skills, as measured by these indicators, have not improved significantly.

New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights

On the federal front, we achieved an historical win with the House passage of the bill updating the Endangered Species Act, and we will continue to work with the Senate as they take this issue up this year. In addition, we will continue to bring attention to the permanent repeal of the Death Tax.

If we go forward and there will be an open passage from Rafah into Egypt and vice versa, we will need supervision of a third party. We will discuss as a possibility European Union involvement ... I'm much in favor of it,

I am in strong support of the passage of the Voting Rights Act to protect the ability of all citizens, particularly minorities, to vote.

I believe that living in two places at one time accelerates the passage of time. I'd like to slow down the march of time as much as possible.

I applaud Congress for the passage of FALCPA. Chairman Joe Barton and Ranking Member John D. Dingell in the House, Energy and Commerce Committee were instrumental in moving this bipartisan legislation forward. Representative Nita Lowey was the original sponsor of the legislation. FDA also applauds the dedication and leadership of the legislation's sponsors in the Senate, which include Senators Judd Gregg and Edward Kennedy.

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.

I had a silly mistake in the middle passage and that is the one that you have to take right. That didn't go quite well and my chances have not improved, but I want to leave that behind me and look forward to the slalom.

I can think of nothing more appropriate for this occasion than to welcome and honor Senator Harkin for his vision and compassion in championing passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act 16 years ago. An entire generation of empowered citizens is deeply indebted to him.

Getting our affected Gulf Coast states the aid they need to help victims and rebuild communities continues to be our highest priority. Today's passage is the second aid package in recent days, and it illustrates one thing: this Congress is serious about doing everything we can to help local, state and federal officials respond to this crisis.

I don't think it will further the process to respond to comments like those from Jeremy Jacobs suggesting the available deal only gets worse with the passage of time. Obviously the owners' decision to cancel the season will have negative impact on everyone associated with our industry and unfortunately this has been the preferred route to take by owners like Jeremy Jacobs.

There is a gradual passage toward agreement. We are not there yet, but talks are extremely constructive. I think there will be more movement, probably not before Christmas but in the first of next year. I would be very disappointed if we went in to next season in a situation of flux.

We support the concept of this new travel card, but it must be affordable, easy for travelers to obtain and should not delay passage through our ports of entry. More than 400 million inspections occur at our nation's borders each year, with more than $500 billion in surface trade alone between the United States, Mexico and Canada.

What we enable with the passage of this bill is the creation of an independent regulator with all the tools necessary to protect the taxpayer, ... This is a fair compromise.

Kids are crossing everywhere in that parking area. We need to stop the traffic and get safe lines of passage for pedestrians.

I think the immediate needs of HIPC, subject to the passage by the U.S. Congress of the U.S. contribution, are probably met, ... I think the $2.6 billion to $2.8 billion target is achievable, and then we will need to consider funding the rest of it.

I think you would have to say that Gov. Bush has had a rougher passage to the nomination. McCain stung him badly in New Hampshire and then came back from the South Carolina to win again in Michigan ... the kind of state that represents a battleground in a general election. Losing to McCain there really did inflict some wounds on Bush.

It is something that we concur with. We don't accept that it is a rite of passage that underage students should be out there drinking.

It is no coincidence that terrorists have not successfully attacked America since passage of the PATRIOT Act a month following 9/11.

It is my hope that during my brief passage through this universe, that I may share with you the joy of hearing the music of the stars... knowing that the composer was from a distant place and the songs were written eons ago, which now fall gently on this place for all to hear.

It is a matter of common knowledge among mystics that the evolutionary career of mankind is indissolubly bound up with the divine hierarchies, who rule the planets and the signs of the Zodiac, and that the passage of the Sun and the planets through the twelve signs of the Zodiac, marks man's progress in time and in space.

Just finding somebody that was your best friend, who you could be with and enjoy the passage of time--and that's what I found.

Our hope is that passage of the resolution will further the cause by putting international pressure on the Congress.

Our government would like to see the passage of the Russian subsoil law, which will clarify the rules and the laws for investment in the energy area,

Our role is to smooth the passage of Bahamians wherever they go in the world,

Our gardens are symbols of home rather than seduction. Young people with fire in their blood are seldom found in them. The garden is the scene of middle age, of the slow passage from sexual excitement to domestic routine.

President Bush's committed focus on wireless as a catalyst for technology growth is paying dividends. His leadership resulted in the historic agreement of the Department of Defense and other agencies to open up the frequencies, as well as the passage of key legislation a year ago that will make the 2006 auctions a reality.

Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.

Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.

Passage would bring relief to millions of small-business owners and their families. It would certainly ease Main Street's growing anxiety about being slapped with and ruined by a Mickey Mouse lawsuit.

Passage of this amendment to end conflicts of interest is a victory for public health and restores integrity and confidence in the FDA's advisory committees,

Passage of C will be no windfall but it will help these agencies stay even. It is merely a catch-up tactic to keep agencies running.

Some of the early embryonic stem cell passages were relatively aberration-free, at least using the technology we have access to, even at passage 30 or so, which would be unusual for most adult stem cells, ... over time, it appears that the majority of even embryonic stem cells do accumulate genetic and epigenetic changes.

Linking these two issues is unreasonable. The passage of the anti-secession law is an effort to ease tensions across the Taiwan Straits.

It does appear that they used the trip to provide cover for delaying a full vote on their bill which would impose a 27.5% tax on all imports from China if it did not allow the yuan to appreciate significantly with six months of passage of the bill.

You can always find in Scriptures a passage to misquote for almost anything, ... something very strange.

We believe the state of Mississippi's dependence on the gaming industry will be an important factor in passage of legislation that is more protective of these two valuable sources of economic vitality.

We had to stop to change another tire and lost more time. I will not have fond memories of my passage through Portugal on the Dakar Rally.

We needed this, it's a rite of passage game, ... When you get through a game like this, it shows you what you're about and shows you where you're trying to go. ... At certain points, this is a journey. And it was a hell of a journey today.

Unless you address some of the underlying problems in these bills, I doubt there will be a consensus necessary for passage of them,

The proposal seeks to stitch back the streetscape and we support it wholeheartedly. We've got the best interests of Camden Passage at heart.

While passage of this legislation will do nothing to bring back Carlie Brucia and other children who have been brutally murdered by predators, it can save other families the anguish of losing a child to the most unthinkable of violent acts,

While much work remains to be accomplished to level the international playing field as it relates to international trade, passage of the anti-counterfeiting bill is a significant step in the right direction towards a fair trade situation for the Commonwealth's manufacturing community.

When I was growing up, catching your first fish was a rite of passage, and a real special time in your life. Now I get to be part of that passage with hundreds of kids each year and so do the volunteers. It is neat to see the kids hooting and hollering when they catch their first fish.

With passage of this important child protection legislation, America's children will be safer in their homes, backyards, schools and neighborhoods,

The passage of workers' compensation reform in 2004 was a critical step forward for small businesses in California and helped produce and preserve thousands of jobs in our state. The ballot initiatives would eviscerate those reforms, resulting in massive increases in worker's compensation costs, and send our economy into a tailspin. We will rally California's entire business community to preserve the reforms and will wage a vigorous campaign against these job killer initiatives.

The passage of time hasn't changed the fact that abortion is a serious, lethal violation of fundamental human rights, and that women and children deserve better, and that the demands of justice, generosity, and compassion require that the right to life be guaranteed to everyone.

The passage of time does not lessen the importance of reporting.

The passage of time does not excuse Allen from the jury's punishment.

The passage of time and Public Storage's price appreciation has allowed Public Storage to seal a deal that is not materially different from the one offered last July.

The passage of this ordinance is a victory for all people living in King County, because it recognizes that 'equal treatment under the law' is a basic right for every citizen.

The passage of this message is an indication of the potential setbacks to the fiscal sector that could result from a government or congress that wants to pursue a populist agenda.

The passage of this legislation will help the commission to continue its efforts aimed at increasing investor protection and restoring confidence in our markets.

The passage of this bill represents hope to the families affected by this artificially low cap. I am hopeful that the governor will sign this legislation quickly given his public statements in support of raising the cap.

The PFL has hardened its stance and people are scared it will delay passage of the CPMF through the Senate.

We've indicated quite clearly what the U.N. has achieved and has done since the passage of Resolution 1483. And we have also indicated and spelled out the areas where the U.N. can make further contributions.

With such a stunning result, passage of the postal reform bills is virtually assured. The next areas are medical reform, civil service reform, public sector outsourcing and government financial institution reform.

While there are many influences on gas prices in America, I believe the passage of a national energy bill will help relieve this burden on our country.

we think runs counter to recent trends toward a warming in cross-straits relations, and we would consider passage of this law unhelpful.

At this pace, we are on track toward a passage rate close to the same percentage of students that now fulfill all other requirements to receive a high school diploma,

Divorce should be the last possible option, rather than something we should be smoothing the passage to.

Contrary to opinions expressed on almost every editorial page across the state, I knew that when law-abiding Texans' constitutional right to keep and bear arms was restored with the passage of S.B. 60, they would exercise good judgment and behave responsibly.

Employers are going to look at where you went to law school and see you were in the group that had a high passage rate.

There's no way that can be overlooked. If his death leads to passage of hate-crime legislation in Wyoming, it will be a bittersweet footnote in our state's history.

I've been wanting to write a book about what goes into creating a novel, and the story behind 'A Passage to India' is especially interesting.