Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
Marcel Proust

Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.
Ivan Turgenev

Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.
Ovid

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.
Horace

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
Joel A. Barker

Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.
Dean Acheson

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
John Cage

Well, I'm not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time passes, I hope that not me personally so much, but our administration will be seen for some of the things that we accomplished.
David Dinkins

What is lovely never dies, put passes into other loveliness.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.
Robert Scheer

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
Raymond Aron

What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.
Bill Delahunt

What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.
George Jean Nathan

When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver.
Joe Theismann

When I hear that I realize how quickly time passes and how everybody goes on their journeys and they're always unbelievable and they never go where you think they're going to take you and, quite frankly, it also makes me feel a little old.
Rob Lowe

When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth.
Marcus V. Pollio

When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him.
Charles Horton Cooley

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.
Anna Quindlen

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
Anita Brookner

You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.
Karel Capek