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Any man's death diminishes us, but when an artist passes away, we lose not just an island but an entire archipelago.
The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.
I've always been interested in what passes for what we call religion, what other cultures call their spiritual life.
Everybody's always going to have some self-interest. When it passes a certain point, that's when it become corruption.
If you're having sequences where you're keeping 20 passes or more, then you're only growing in confidence in the game.
It's really easy, once somebody passes away, for the tales about them to become taller, the good ones and the bad ones.
With every day that passes, David Blunkett becomes more insensitive in his language and more intemperate in his actions.
The failed stimulus, along with Obamacare's long list of failures, show what happens when Congress passes laws in a rush.
Cosmic energy enters the body through the medulla and then passes to the cerebrum, in which it is stored or concentrated.
Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.
Unlike other loans, a reverse mortgage doesn't have to be repaid until the borrower moves out of the home or passes away.
If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.
Honestly, I don't feel pressure to live up to anything I've done because I tend to not listen to my work once a year passes.
With every year that passes, the more we have to be careful not to forget the causes and consequences of the Great Recession.
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
When a loved one passes, there are mixed emotions, and a thirst to live one's own life more deeply can certainly be among them.
We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.
Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.
I think NASCAR racing comes down... to going for those last-lap passes, making those risky moves. That's what makes drivers unique.
There's a lot of good, bipartisan legislation that passes in committee and then gets bottled up. As a businessman, it surprised me.
The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
Hip-hop certainly is in sync with the youth, and every day that passes, I grow less youthful, as much as I have tried to hold onto it.
Basketball players want to be comfortable, they want to be lackadaisical, they want to make the right passes and take the right shots.
When a network passes, you really mourn the show. The official state of grief in Hollywood is saying you're taking around a dead pilot.
The only thing is against Messi you can stop him 10 times, but if he passes you once and scores, people say, 'Evra played a poor game.'
They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself.
As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you're a celebrity because people care.
Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.
I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.
I like to have the ball, to have possession and to play passes, to create chances for my team-mates. I think that is what makes me strong.
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
For me, a really radical position for journalism to take is to stop being cynical. Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.
Maybe water polo and volleyball really help me on the court. Water polo with my one-handed passes, volleyball too, maybe when I tap passes.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
As time passes, the actual complexity of our history - even of our own personal experience - gets buried under the weight of the ideal image.
When I die, it's going to read, 'Game Show Fixture Passes Away.' Nothing about the theater, or Tony Awards, or Emmys. But it doesn't bother me.
Ultimately, the goal at the end of the day is to win each game, regardless of how it's done, who scores the touchdowns, who catches the passes.
It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.
I don't think my personality will change. No matter how much time passes or how old I get, I'd like to be considered a playful person to everyone.
I still have downs and get depressed, but I try not to dwell too much on being negative because it always passes and there is still so much to do.
I still play my fast-paced style but when the game slows down it allows you to see the little things - the right passes, where to lay the ball up.
These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
Congress passes bills that appropriate money. Congress says, 'We're building this bridge or funding that defense project, and they cost this much.'
All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.
Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.
A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.
As a kid, Terry Bradshaw didn't amaze me. My hero was Steelers backup Terry Hanratty, who nabbed two Super Bowl rings while completing three passes.