Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Samuel Johnson
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The squeeze has eased considerably. We knew the passage was coming.
Michael Pond
They're in chaos. They're as far from unity as a knife fight. They're stabbing each other in the back over profits on a proposal that doesn't have great odds of passage in the first place.
David Zanotti
Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.
Helene Cixous
They will have to go through the workers' passage now. We will have to sit down with the Palestinian Authority in order to find a solution for the problem.
Shlomo Dror
In general, the passage of the budget is expected to go smoothly, given it contains little that is new or controversial.
Damian Fraser
If you look at the passage of the ban, you'll see that law enforcement has been united in support of banning these weapons. My position is very clear on this issue.
Betty Sutton
Now he's got to show who's in charge. And there's no doubt he can pass this. He can get it passed if he chooses to use his political capital and to hold accountable any members that obstruct this passage.
John Lehman
I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality.
Troy Perry
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
W. Somerset Maugham
It's going to take the passage of a new tax. And this is going to take a grass-roots effort through schools.
Dwight Tankersley
They all have an unfailing respect for him and they see having wrestled for him as a rite of passage.
Kurt Howell
By the passage of the new rule, there is now one federal standard for manufacturers to meet.
Julie Vallese
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
Philip G. Hamerton
It was a rite of passage. He was dad's right-hand man . . . he was just doing things like that. We made a conscious decision for him to be there to help.
Marilyn Adams
The main thing is that it doesn?t impede fish passage or boat passage.
Bob Hunter
The Americans will say they have the right to innocent passage, but it's complicated by the fact that this is extremely dangerous cargo and there is extreme risk to our citizens and to the environment.
Greg Thompson
Everyone on the ship is trying to decide if we should deliver the ship via the Panama Canal or the Northwest Passage.
Jim Mccauley
We hope this untenable thesis of supposed madness or dementia does not impede the progress of the investigation and the passage of justice, because that would be a global embarrassment.
Carmen Hertz
Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'
Cesare Lombroso
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
Walt Whitman
We were really sweating that bill's passage, because it came down to the final minutes before the midnight deadline. We had about seven minutes to go when it was approved.
Tom Morrison
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.
John Irving
I got out Sunday and [Wednesday] morning for a couple hours, and we found black mouth every time in Saratoga Passage.
Gary Krein
The Democrats were good, but it took a while. We need swift passage and enactment.
Ralph Hellmann
Nothing knits man to man, the Manchester School wisely taught, like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash.
Walter Sickert
Chickenpox is not necessarily a benign disease or a childhood rite of passage. We don't recommend parents expose their children. The vaccine is best.
Curtis Allen
It's definitely not fun. It's a hurdle. It's just another thing you have to go through here. I think it's a rite of passage.
Mike Piazza
God promises a safe landing but not a calm passage.
Bulgarian Proverb
Unless you address some of the underlying problems in these bills, I doubt there will be a consensus necessary for passage of them.
Andrew Mcdonald
There's no way that can be overlooked. If his death leads to passage of hate-crime legislation in Wyoming, it will be a bittersweet footnote in our state's history.
Jim Osborn
The passage of this legislation will help the commission to continue its efforts aimed at increasing investor protection and restoring confidence in our markets.
William Donaldson
There were 15 [boats] on Monday from Saratoga Passage to the racetrack [between Hat Island and Camano Head], and pretty much everyone got fish.
Gary Krein
It's not tangible. The passage of time is measured differently.
Kara Carney
It's such a challenge. A show like this is almost like a rite of passage that you have to go through as an actor. It's technically difficult because it changes each night.
Kirk White
This is one issue we are quite shocked that we have to fight so hard to get final passage. By filing suit, networks have picked a fight with American families.
Lanier Swann
If there is no breakthrough and the talks are still deadlocked, I am afraid the January 28 deadline for the passage of the (political) laws will not be met.
Andi Mallarangeng
They're trying to migrate upstream, that's why were providing fish passage. There will be fish passage this spring.
Robert Richter
Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner side.
Alexander Maclaren
The tsunami itself has brought the two parties to the negotiating table to allow free passage for the humanitarian workers to be able to carry out their normal duties, in which they have really excelled.
Bakhtiar Abdullah
I don't think I need to explain to anybody down here the future of this room we are sitting in depends on the passage of this referendum.
Mark Cavanaugh
It's a game of cowboys and Indians, ... have become a local sport, a rite of passage.
Olivier Roy
Our hope is that passage of the resolution will further the cause by putting international pressure on the Congress.
Ilir Zherka
The PFL has hardened its stance and people are scared it will delay passage of the CPMF through the Senate.
Luiz Marcos Prudencio
Bradley never quite caught up with Gore in the early rounds and I think Gore had an easier passage.
David Broder
[But he earned particular attention in Hollywood for his tenacity in making the grand-scale] A Passage to India, ... the most difficult thing of my life.
David Lean
Divorce should be the last possible option, rather than something we should be smoothing the passage to.
Brian Adams
This is a terrible thing that has happened, the passage of one.
Chido Nwangwu
To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.
Lance Henriksen
[And despite the passage of time, the award has divided the industry.] With Kazan, ... I'm angry because this man was very well off in the theater financially. I could understand -- even though I wouldn't like it -- a man panicking because he doesn't have the money to educate or feed his kids and in a moment of animalistic fear said, 'Him, John or Bill.'
Rod Steiger
[The attempt to ensure passage] was a mixture of arrogance and stupidity, ... It would have made a Sunni boycott (of Saturday's vote) inevitable.
Toby Dodge
RESPIRATOR, n. An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth of an inhabitant of London, whereby to filter the visible universe in its passage to the lungs.
Ambrose Bierce
We've definitely have seen a lot more activity in the Caribbean since the passage of CAFTA by the U.S. government. Some of that has come from companies who have closed facilities in the U.S. and are preparing to open facilities in the CAFTA region.
Will Motchar
With passage of this important child protection legislation, America's children will be safer in their homes, backyards, schools and neighborhoods.
Fred Upton
Just finding somebody that was your best friend, who you could be with and enjoy the passage of time--and that's what I found.
Jennifer Aniston
If you notice how the requirement for Constitution Day came about, it was a stipulation hidden in another bill. That's part of the Constitution controversy, ... The way the founding fathers crafted the passage of a bill, the president has to accept or reject all of it. That makes it very difficult.
E. Hicks
Surely what do we do when such people are refusing the food passage?
Zlatan Milisic
Employers are going to look at where you went to law school and see you were in the group that had a high passage rate.
Erin Miller
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