#passing

I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

#acting #best #creating #flower #forgetting

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. ↗

— Omar N. Bradley

#every #lights #passing #set #ship

Gray skies are just clouds passing over. ↗

— Duke Ellington

#gray #just #over #passing #skies

Mounting a large rock, I was able to see a considerable body of the enemy moving by the flank in rear of their line engaged, and passing from the direction of the foot of Great Round Top through the valley toward the front of my left. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#body #considerable #direction #enemy #engaged

My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#brush #case #children #cloud #every

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully. ↗

— Victor Cherbuliez

#cheerfully #detail #ease #foresight #habit

Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive. ↗

— Mac Thornberry

#alive #churchill #forty #forty years #his

The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#center #contradicts #deeply #held #humankind

Which of us is not saying to himself which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: " I shall alter that when I have a little more time"? We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#time #time-passing #life

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#behind #black #broken #feet #god