Mastery passes often for egotism.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Time passes irrevocably.

- Virgil

How quickly passes away the glory of this world.

- Thomas a Kempis

If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.

- Steve Earle

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.

- Philip Roth

Use the occasion, for it passes swiftly.

- Ovid

My mother-in-law's so fat that when she passes her handbag from hand to hand she throws it.

- Les Dawson

My dad reads the scripts and passes them on to me.

- Kodi Smit-McPhee

Life passes into pages if it passes into anything.

- James Salter

Often what passes for faith in this world is little more than gullibility.

- Joseph B. Wirthlin

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

- Auguste Renoir

I myself scraped seven poor passes at O-level.

- James Dyson

Flash mobbing may be a fad that passes away, or it may be an indicator of things to come.

- Howard Rheingold

Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person.

- Horace

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

- Haruki Murakami

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.

- George Osborne

What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.

- George Jean Nathan

The lucky person passes for a genius.

- Euripides

With every day that passes, David Blunkett becomes more insensitive in his language and more intemperate in his actions.

- Charles Kennedy

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

- Brett Favre