Slipping Quotes

179 quotes by 165 authors

Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award. — Michael Caine
When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping. — Maria Callas
Some people drift through their entire life. They do it one day at a time, one week at a time, one month at a time.… — Mary Kay Ash
Religion is a valid inquiry; whether society accepts it or rejects it, it doesn't matter. Man is a religious animal and is going to remain… — Rajneesh
Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into nothingness?… — Friedrich Nietzsche
You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes, it's all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH… — George Carlin
Awareness by itself is not enough: it must be joined by mastery. We need gradually to develop a steering ability to keep ourselves from slipping… — Piero Ferrucci
We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough. — Augustus William Hare
I believe we should try to move away from the vocabulary and attitudes which shape the stereotyping of developed and developing country approaches to human… — Mary Robinson
The reality is that no group of countries has any grounds for complacency about its own human rights performance and no group of countries does… — Kofi Annan
The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and… — Pearl S. Buck
I have been continuously surprised by people who come to me and say they are afraid of love. What is the fear of love? It… — Rajneesh
I put myself in a position of authority where if I get judged, I get scrutinized. So if I get caught slipping, than I have… — Damon Dash
Do you remember a little phenom called step aerobics? If you do, then you know how crazy it was to take two ninety-minute classes in… — Kathy Griffin
Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality. — C J Cherryh
Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison — Jenny Holzer
Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars.… — Salman Rushdie
A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down the… — John Shirley
Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not only takes up… — Philip Larkin
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string. — George D. Prentice

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