Passage Quotations | Page 2

The search for a structure that blocks the passage of light in all directions has fascinated physicists and engineers for the past two decades.

The ship required to be caulked in every part for she was become so leaky that we had been obliged to pump every hour in our passage from Cape Horn.

The squeeze has eased considerably. We knew the passage was coming.

The South Dakota Legislature took a significant step toward fully modernizing insurance regulation with the passage of SB 44. This should encourage insurers to bring more new products to market faster and improve the competitive environment for consumers.

I've always been interested in photographing traditions and customs - especially in America. The prom is an American tradition, a rite of passage that has always been one of the most important rituals of American youth. It is a day in our lives that we never forget - a day full of hopes and dreams for our future.

Presidents Truman and Nixon left office under dark clouds of scandal and with abysmal levels of support, but with the passage of time, both have been reassessed far more positively.

Rather than dull our consciences to the unmitigated violence of abortion, the passage of time has only enabled us to see and, frankly, better understand the innate cruelty of abortion and its horrific legacy - victims - while making us more determined than ever to protect the weakest and the most vulnerable.

Other humanitarian agencies in southern Somalia face the enormous challenge of reaching drought victims in remote and insecure areas. We urge leaders and rival militia to set aside their differences and guarantee safe passage (of food aid) to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe.

Northrop Grumman has been aggressively pursuing emerging technologies to combat the growing threat from mines. The transformational mine-detection technology used in ALMDS is critical for creating safer passage around the world for our servicemen and women.

Do you know how many times campaign-finance reform failed before final passage in 2002? Many times.

An SOA is a collection of these services communicating with each other, either through simple passage of data or a coordinated effort to do a task. To get them to communicate, you need Web services. We used to buy a stereo system as a single integrated unit, all hardwired together--the speakers, the receiver, the tuner, and the turntable. Some stereos had a better receiver, while some had a better turntable. One day somebody figured, 'Hey, wouldn't it be great if we could mix and match components?' Now the bits and pieces work together, connected by standardized wiring.

And the garrison of the Philistines went out to the passage of Michmash.

As a rule, memories fade with the passage of time, instead of remembering with specificity but providing no dates or times as backup. It was the first time, to our knowledge, these things have ever been said.

A victim never forgets the crime, ... A defendant should never be permitted to think he's home free just because of the passage of time.

As of May when we broke the Marseilles-Carthage record, we held the six fastest outright passage records. And now Maiden has encroached on that.

As many as two out of every three Europeans who came to the colonies were debtors on arrival: they paid for their passage by becoming indentured servants.

You're going to have to ask Steve about that. After the last one, I think he thought no way, but after the passage of time, I think he rethought things and decided to try it.

This is going solved by the two sides getting together and talking to each other through dialogue, and passage of legislation is not going to help solve the problem,

This is one of the most high-risk times of the year for young people as they approach both prom and graduation. Unfortunately, the perception that it is a rite of passage and even expected for young people to drink and that adults provide alcohol to them is a very dangerous proposition.

This is a celebration not just of passage of act but everything Social Security has done for past 70 years, ... Social Security is one of the hallmark programs of the New Deal era and I think it's important to remind people of the great structural reforms that took place during the Roosevelt era.

They that live in a trading street are not disturbed at the passage of carts

There were a lot of things that happened in that sequence of play . . . the spotlight will probably go on Josh because it was his opponent that kicked the winning goal, but there were a lot of things that we can learn from that passage of play.

this is the largest release of formerly classified CIA documents ever. It reflects my commitment to be as forward-leaning as possible in releasing information that with the passage of time no longer needs to be protected.

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.

At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting was promptly defeated. My father who was there, said nothing, but that night, on my pillow I found a marked passage from Aristotle: Anybody can become angry--that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

As with the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, the origins of Shearith Israel trace back to a small group of religious freedom-seekers and a treacherous ocean passage to the New World.

It was critical to the success of Anthem, because we were limited in our capacity to grow. The company wouldn't be where it is but for passage of that legislation.

It's a passage of life. It's hard to let go,

It's not tangible. The passage of time is measured differently.

It's the thing I never could write, the idea of identity and passage of the soul.

It's going to take the passage of a new tax. And this is going to take a grass-roots effort through schools.

Its passage would lead to a better business model for New York racing, and thus strengthen the upcoming bids for the current NYRA franchise. Most importantly of all, this legislation would increase purses, improve breeding farm economics, and help assure the future viability of the industry in New York.

Congress was acutely aware that for more than a decade before the passage of these laws, every attempt to close or realign a major base in this country had been blocked by Congress itself or by the courts. Congress undoubtedly recognized that objective and prompt decisions concerning base closings are vitally important, particularly at a time of budgetary problems and rapidly changing defense needs.

considered enlisting in the Army a rite of passage into manhood.

You, the American people, have made our passage into the global information age an era of great American renewal.

The observance does not only recognize (the passage of the 19th Amendment) but also commemorates the ongoing effort towards full equality for women in our society today,

Every astronomer will remember when they first heard the results from WMAP, ... The announcement ... represents a rite of passage for cosmology from speculation to precision science.

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.

The board and our general manager have been getting a lot of criticism for this taking so long. Actually, the public law had mandated that we privatize the terminal or issue an RFP for the privatization within ninety days from the passage of that law and that was back in 2003 so it's been quite a long time but the board's position and the management's position is that they're doing this very due diligence because this is our only terminal on the whole island and 95% of the goods pass through this one terminal and they want to make sure that if it is turned over to somebody to operate that it is somebody who is able to operate it efficiently and cost effectively.

Study after study has confirmed that after-school programs help students learn while ensuring that children are safe and productive after the regular school day ends, ... With the passage of this resolution, Congress is speaking with one voice in support of these important programs.

not to allow Lebanon to be a passage for conspiracy against Syria.

Struggling to end the war and to eliminate slavery once and for all by way of the 13th Amendment, with the amendment's prospective passage undermining the effort to make peace with the Confederacy and vice versa, Lincoln embodied the Great Man theory that leftists disdain.

Oh, it comes up every year: the big caution speech. It's a high school rite of passage that can also incorporate other rites of passage you have to caution kids about.

The vote during this weekend's meeting on the compromise, or 'alternate proposal,' is not necessarily prologue to passage up the NAIC committee hierarchy and certainly not in legislatures. Regulators will have to take into account what legislators think about the internal accounting content in the proposal that is derived from Sarbanes-Oxley.

These numbers speak volumes about how wonderful the teacher staff is and how hard we worked to achieve such a high passage rate. People will definitely see that UK professors work harder in preparing us for the Bar than most.

Nothing knits man to man, the Manchester School wisely taught, like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash

The lack of emigration rules and regulations allowed Japan to argue for a temporary halt to emigration to Hawaii in its quest to prevent passage of a Japanese exclusion act.

I'm delighted, as is the president, with passage of the budget resolution this afternoon, ... It is an indication of the extent to which we can continue to work together to make progress.

I'm afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you would see that I'm still brooding about statements, songs and issues from the third grade. The years between 1980 and today went by very, very quickly.

In general, the passage of the budget is expected to go smoothly, given it contains little that is new or controversial.

In both instances, these issues represent the sovereignty of tribal government. It would threaten a vital revenue stream. Passage of this bill is an action that seems both premature and unnecessary.

In my formative years, I never missed the 'Creature Double Feature' on Saturday afternoon TV, even if it meant switching back and forth between 'Gamera' and the Red Sox. I did a book report on Stephen King's 'Night Shift' in seventh grade. Unrated Italian horror movies became a weekly rite of passage once I hit seventeen.

I'm reticent to say much more, but we would like to begin in the coming year. We'd like to shoot through the seasons because of the passage of time. This project is the great love of my life.

I must not think of thee; and, tired yet strong, / I shun the thought that lurks in all delight - / The thought of thee - and in the blue heaven's height, / And in the sweetest passage of a song.

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.

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.

In those days, there was lots more of a spoils system prior to the passage of statewide classification and pay, collective bargaining and executive reorganization.

Instead of antonyms and analogies, which depend on vocabulary, we want to measure the ability to understand reading passages, so we would ask students to indicate the sentence in a passage where the author presents an argument contrary to his thesis, or find the two sentences that are equivalent,

In our license application, we did not call for fish passage above our dams because water quality in the river and above our projects is very poor.

In order to have a skilled workforce to draw on now and in the future, Michigan's education system needs to improve at all levels. Passage of legislation this year to mandate stronger high school graduation standards is important to manufacturers, as is raising the cap on charter public schools to provide families more quality choices.

In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a very close, formal analogue of one the stories in 'Dubliners.' That is because a novel is also a literary conversation.

I know full well that the discussion on this issue and any passage of any type of ordinance will take months of discussion and massaging in order to meet the needs of our merchants. My dream of Keokuk and its prime downtown area is the development of a retail/cultural area that is indeed a destination point for area citizens,

In the time since passage of the act, there have been many successes as a result of the measures put into place by the PATRIOT Act.

In your passage of this ordinance, we're not saying that we're paying the medical bills of people who in the past didn't qualify. I don't foresee that being a problem whatsoever. ... It's relatively limited to the area of disability retirement.

In the area of national security, I urge the swift passage of an anti-terrorism law that will protect rather than subvert, enhance rather than weaken, the rights and liberties that terrorism precisely threatens with extinction.

I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me - I still watch silent films.

It has been so effective. Its passage has stopped felons and fugitives from acquiring guns from licensed dealers, ... ... Jim and Sarah Brady have been such an inspiration. I think they should be our inspiration to try harder today and renew our efforts.

By the passage of the new rule, there is now one federal standard for manufacturers to meet.

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.

If folks had been doing their jobs, we would have a list of schools by the time of the passage of the budget.

How I vote on final passage right now is between me and my maker.

For the most part, passage of the DMCA has proven to be an achievement settling many complex liability issues up front and allowing the online businesses to grow. It was our hope that it would give creators incentives to make their products available on the Internet ... Sadly, this has not occurred to any great extent,

The main thing is that it doesn?t impede fish passage or boat passage,

The first conditions were economic, including the passage of structural reform policies that favored economic growth. We've also had low interest rates and low inflation, which is a big change from the past.

To embarrass justice by a multiplicity of laws, or to hazard it by confidence in judges, are the opposite rocks on which all civil institutions have been wrecked, and between which legislative wisdom has never yet found an open passage

Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened into the rose-garden.

Footfalls echo in the memory, Down the passage which we did not take, Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden.