Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it]. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start. — Dan Millman 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
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
A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him,… — Abigail Adams 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
What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation… — Laozi Copy Share Image
There is a door. It opens. Then it is closed. But a slip of light stays, like a scrap of unreadable paper… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
You have to work ceaselessly on your end to digest and imbibe your opportunities or, I have come to believe, they will… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time. I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell… — John Waters Copy Share Image
On the air, it's as if somebody draws a heavy drape to block any bias. I don't even feel it inside. It's… — Dick Enberg Copy Share Image
I use African-American, because I teach African Studies as well as African-American Studies, so it's easy, neat and convenient. But sometimes, when… — Henry Louis Gates 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
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
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
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
Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities.… — Barbara Hurd Copy Share Image
At first it was a bit strange and daunting to have to wear a mask, but afterwards I came to enjoy it.… — Gerard Butler Copy Share Image
I find that people today tend to use them interchangeably. I use African-American, because I teach African Studies as well as African-American… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I go to a hotel and try to get there by 5:30 in the morning. I keep a dictionary, a thesaurus, a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Debt never sleeps nor sickens nor dies; it never goes to the hospital; it works on Sundays and holidays; it never takes… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
A thin line separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. Our lives constantly walk that line. When we slip… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
You can learn from an ordinary bamboo leaf what ought to happen. It bends lower and lower under the weight of snow.… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Friendship is but a name, faith is an empty name. Alas, it is not safe to praise to a friend the object… — Ovid Copy Share Image
You can want success all you want, but to get it, you can’t falter. You can’t slip. You can’t sleep. One eye… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Sometimes we get caught up in our troubles and our problems and we let life slip away, but life is precious, all… — Yanni Copy Share Image
Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept. — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
Slip into the gap, have the desire, detach from the outcome, and let the universe take care of the details. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
However we pass Time, he passes still, Passing away whatever the pastime, And, whether we use him well or ill, Some day… — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Copy Share Image
We tend to let our freedoms slip away because they are tucked away in documents and policies that we don't ever deal… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work. — Samantha Bond Copy Share Image
In this world we've created Where this place that we live in a blink of an eye the darkness slips in Love… — Vanessa L. Williams Copy Share Image
No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them. — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
God's hand never slips. He never makes a mistake. His every move is for our own good and for our ultimate good. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
We will not "forget" so as to be able to rejoice; we will rejoice and therefore let those memories (of wrongs suffered)… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
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