"I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by."
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"History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time."
"How do you feel?" he asked him. "Like a military academy," said Arthur. "Bits of me keep on passing out."
"Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining."
"Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors."
"He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that he loved her, and all the other knowledge seemed passing from him just as he needed it most."
"Sak, pain, love are limited human experiences. and only those who know their own frontiers, those knows the life, the rest is just passing time."
"The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you."
"The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow."
"Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year."
"The Beatles are a passing phase, symptoms of the confusion about us."
"In high school, every last one of the passing schemes was designed for me."
"Money, success, and the external trappings have chased after me wherever I have gone. These things show up in my life, and I just keep passing them on. I don't hang onto them myself at all. I have very few needs like that."
"Is she not passing fair?"
"To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth."
"Every time you are passing the test, you are coming closer to Krishna."
"Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history."
"Youth is an arithmetical statement of passing interest, each hour eats it up."
"Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle."
"Two Irishmen were passing a pub - well, it could happen."