Famous quotes containing the word passes:
“All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on itan oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.”
—Peter Conrad (b. 1948)
“Consciousness is the perception of what passes in a mans own mind. Can another man perceive that I am conscious of any thing, when I perceive it not myself? No mans knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”
—John Locke (16321704)
“Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?
For these red lips, with all their mournful pride,
Mournful that no new wonder may betide,
Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam,
And Usnas children died.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
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