Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it]. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir. — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Put your hands on your hip, let your back bone slip. Do the Watusi, like my little Lucy. — Wilson Pickett Copy Share Image
A fish does not campaign against fisheries-it only tries to slip through the mesh. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Periodontal bacteria can easily slip into the bloodstream and cause infection elsewhere in the body. — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death. — Horace Copy Share Image
To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The most exhilarating for the writer and the reader, are gift-things-poems which arrive on their own energy, poems that in William Shakespeare's… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
It took him 75 steps to get from third to home. I thought we were going to have to go out there… — Derek Jeter Copy Share Image
Cinderella's glass shoe was the perfect size… so why did it slip off as she ran?- It must have been to attract… — Ai Yazawa Copy Share Image
On each side of the war against war, hopes soar, hopes dive, hour by hour now. Resignations abound, timetables slip, and the… — Margo Kingston Copy Share Image
Leaden trumpets spit the soot of power they say"I'm on your side when nobody is, cause nobody is.Come sit right here and… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
If we fail to realize our full potential as human beings, we live more on an animalistic level. This is fine for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What if this young woman, who writes such bad poems, in competition with her husband, whose poems are equally bad, should stretch… — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
Temptation isn't a sin that you triumph over once, completely and then you're free. Temptation slips into bed with you each night… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi,… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
Alan Watts, the Buddhist scholar, proposed the existence of a mental faculty he called forgettory, which is the flip side of memory.… — Larry Dossey Copy Share Image
At all periods of the [English] language it is difficult to assign a beginning date to most new words and meanings. They… — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I've got a folder full of rejection slips that I keep. Know why? Because those same editors are now calling my agent… — MaryJanice Davidson Copy Share Image
“I'm looking for a writer who doesn't know where the sentence is leading her; a writer who starts with her obsessions and… — Sy Safransky Copy Share Image
The law of love and compassion for all living creatures is again a doctrine to which we are all too ready to… — U Thant Copy Share Image
Lust, that state commonly known as 'being in love,' is a kind of madness. It is a distortion of reality so remarkable… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
I think if you look after yourself on a regular basis, and do the prep beforehand, you don't need to put lots… — Cat Deeley Copy Share Image
There's an old poem by Neruda that I've always been captivated by, and one of the lines in it has stuck with… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I know when the anthrax thing hit - white people, y'all was very nervous. Y'all would come up to me at work… — Aries Spears Copy Share Image
A magazine editor recently asked me to sit down on my 40th birthday and write an article on the most important things… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
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