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Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn’t allow us to forget.
irena sendler— Letter to the Polish Senate (2007), quoted in "Irena Sendler: An Unsung Heroine" by Louis Bülow (2007)
I am glad to learn that the Parliament Bill has been passed for the Darlington Railway. I am much obliged by the favourable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can be of service in carrying into execution your plans.
george stephenson— Letter to Edward Pease (1821-04-28)
The shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed Ayouth, who bore,'mid snow and ice, A banner with a strange device, Excelsior!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— 1841 'Excelsior'.
And later, wondering farmers as they passed would hear beyond the lighted window in the autumn evening two handsome yellow-bosomed basset-hounds howling to a melodious basset-horn.
Edwin George Morgan— An Addition to the Family (1968)
Summer has come and passed. The innocent can never last.
— Green Day, in "Wake Me Up When September Ends".
Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.
william wordsworth— The Borderers. Act iv. Sc. 2.
The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present.
leonardo da vinci— Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations., as translated by Edward MacCurdy
The day has passed for patching up the capitalist system; it must go. And in the work of abolishing it the Catholic and the Protestant, the Catholic and the Jew, the Catholic and the Freethinker, the Catholic and the Buddhist, the Catholic and the Mahometan will co- operate together? For, as we have said elsewhere, Socialism is neither Protestant nor Catholic,Christian norFreethinker,Buddhist,Mahometan, nor Jew; it isonly HUMAN.
james connolly— 1910 Labour, Nationality, and Religion.
Nor second he, that rode sublime Upon the seraph-wings of ecstasy, The secrets of th'abyss to spy. He passed the flaming bounds of place and time: 370 The living throne, the sapphire-blaze, Where angels tremble, while they gaze, He saw; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.
thomas gray— 1757 Of Milton. The Progress of Poesy, l.95-102.
Of those four winters which I passed in Indo-China opium has left the happiest memory.
— 1955 The Quiet American, introduction.
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around — the music and the ideas.
bob dylan— The Guardian (13 February 1992)
We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
— The Constant Wife (1927)
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad taste in criticizing the man of the hour in Germany.
jesse owens— On reports that Hitler had deliberately avoided acknowledging his victories, and had refused to shake his hand, in The Jesse Owens Story (1970) ISBN 0399603158
All her lovers have passed, her beautiful lovers have passed,The young and eager men that fought for her arrogant hand,And the only voice which endures to mourn for her at the lastIs the voice of the lonely land.
vita sackville-west— "Mariana In The North"
The Saviour would have passed through the agony of Calvary that one might be saved in His kingdom. He will never abandon one for whom He has died.
ellen g. white— The Desire of Ages, Ch. 52, p. 480)
Love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it gives birth to visions and to great poetry, remains among the sharpest expressions of self-interest. Not until it has passed through a long servitude, through its own self-hatred, through mockery, through great doubts, can it take its place among the loyalties.
thornton wilder— As quoted in "The Notation of the Heart" by Edmund Fuller, in The American Scholar Reader (1960) edited by Hiram Hayden and Betsy Saunders.
On making prisoners of our generals, they expected that we should perish from want of direction and order. It is incumbent, therefore, on our present commanders to be far more vigilant than our former ones, and on those under command to be far more orderly, and more obedient to their officers, at present than they were before…On the very day that such resolution is passed, they will see before them ten thousand Clearchuses instead of one.
Xenophon— Bk. 3, ch. 2; pp. 88-89.
When hopes and dreams are loose in the street, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.
Eric Hoffer— Eric Hoffer, The True Believer, 1951.
The story of Joseph in Egypt and of the seven fat and the seven lean years has passed into the homely wisdom of the ages; but our economic thinking seems to have lost contact with so simple and basic approach to prudent management of a nations welfare.
benjamin graham— Chapter V, Stabilization of Raw Materials, p. 56
His talk was like a stream which runs With rapid change from rock to roses; It slipped from politics to puns; It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws that keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending with some precept deep For dressing eels or shoeing horses.
winthrop mackworth praed— Winthrop Mackworth Praed, The Vicar.
Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.
william wordsworth— Borderer, Act IV, scene 2.
Every burning tear, every harrowing fear, every festering grief, every corroding care, every shooting pain, every piercing remorse; the sighs and moans of lazar-houses reeking with putrefaction and death; the shrieks and wails and clanking chains in hospitals swarming with maniacs; and the curses and blasphemies of dungeons where guilt rots and raves these, all these, are but feeble reverberations of those dismal truths, " Sin reigns unto death." " Death hath passed upon all men, for that all have sinned."
— Richard Fuller, p. 550. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
When Jesus came to Birmingham they simply passed Him by,
They never hurt a hair of him, they only let Him die.
For men had grown more tender and they would not give Him pain,
They only just passed down the street, and left Him in the rain.
— Indifference, (1929, st. 2)
I was on the way to my hotel, and I passed a hotel going in the opposite direction.
bob hope— He arrived in Saigon on the day that Vietcong agents blew up an American officers' billet.
— New York Times obituary, July 28, 2003
Upon this hint I spake; She loved me for the dangers I had passed And I loved her that she did pity them.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act I, scene 3, line 166.
He [Cato] used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with a secret; the second that he had gone by sea when he might have gone by land; and the third, that he had passed one day without having a will by him.
— Plutarch, Life of Cato, Volume II, p. 495. Langhorne's translation. Same in Simplicius, Commentary on the Enchiridion of Epictetus, Chapter IX, p. 52 (Ed. 1670).
Healthy necrophilism found in the mementoes cherished in every household of those who passed away.
— William A. F. Browne, quoted in "Necrophilism". J Ment Sci 2O:55 1-60, 1875
No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed.
— p. 10, section 9, Constitution of the Confederate States of America (11 March 1861)
