Passing By Quotes

Dont look to the sky for fireworks when you can watch them light up in the eyes of all the people passing by.

If you argue with a fool, someone passing by will not be able to tell who is the fool and who is not.

Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

Right now a moment of time is passing by!... We must become that moment.

I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.

Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema.

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.

I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

The biggest sin against the poor and the hungry is perhaps indifference, making believe we do not see, passing by on the other side of the street.

Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical? What if the ones inside can't hear very well, would that change my question?

My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by.

To despond is to lie ungrateful beforehand. Be not looking for evil. Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling.

These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.

Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.

It was not despair, but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promises broken and unfulfilled. Yet there were other days when she listened, was led on and deceived by fresh promises which her youth had held out to her.

Why be a dumb dud? Do your friends shun you? Do people cross the street when they see you approaching? Do they run up the steps of strange houses, pretend they live there and force their way into the hall while you are passing by? If this is the sort of person you are, you must avail yourself today of this new service. Otherwise, you might as well be dead.

When I’m taking a picture of Aya Sofia, what counts is the person passing by who stands for life

Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by.

the earth is not my home, I'm just passing by

I love riding on a bus now because you're looking down on the world from not too high of an angle, but people on the street rarely look up into the bus. They're sort of oblivious to this big giant machine, you know, passing by. So there's something very beautiful about the angle that you look at the world through.

For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy.