#passing

Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#british #happened #happening #nobody #passing

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#does #feels #measured #passing #time

I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin. ↗

— Thandie Newton

#am #babies #despite #drawbacks #having

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way. ↗

— Joel Osteen

#do the right thing #even #god #good #good attitude

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#artist #come #earth #emotions #over

It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#during #lasting #make #mind #passing

The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#between #characterizes #commanding #concrete #encompassing

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

— Christina Rossetti

#down #heads #i #neither #nor

Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico. ↗

— Bobby Jindal

#act #automatic #back #congress #deep

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. ↗

— William James

#another #being #currents #dynamic #effective