#passage

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. ↗

— Fred Upton

#bill #bureaucrats #care #change #decide

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary. ↗

— Ken Follett

#dramatic #felt #free #long #next

I'm only interested in rites of passage stories. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#interested #only #passage #rites #stories

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#anger #contemporary #culture #disgust #even

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#decent #english #language #learned #left

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage. ↗

— Danny Glover

#almost #becoming #education #freedom #graduated

I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much. ↗

— Amy Grant

#allows #each #feel #fold #found

Actors do have good and bad sides. It's because the passage down the birth canal distorts the face. People born by caesarean section are more symmetrical. ↗

— Richard Griffiths

#because #birth #born #canal #distorts

To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing. ↗

— Lance Henriksen

#beautiful thing #life #me #passage #rites

I don't have an e-reader. One reason is that I like to dog-ear the page when I find a particularly good sentence or passage. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#good #i #like #page #particularly