Slipping Quotes

179 Slipping quotes by 157 unique authors

The cowardly belief that a person must stay in one place is too reminiscent of the unquestioning resignation of animals, beasts of burden stupefied by… — Isabelle Eberhardt
The Armful For every parcel I stoop down to seize I lose some other off my arms and knees, And the whole pile is slipping,… — Robert Frost
There's a strange sensation - you recall it from childhood - about sleeping in the afternoon. You rise into a different world from the one… — Jacquelyn Mitchard
Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing… — Albert Camus
I had the feeling of slipping down a smooth bottomless pit. It had nothing to do with Breuer and the people. It had nothing to… — Erich Maria Remarque
Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove. — P.G. Wodehouse
One more time? For the audience?" he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Already the boy with the bread is slipping… — Suzanne Collins
Sam was slow getting up. To Quinn he looked like an old man standing up after slipping on the ice. But he looked up at… — Michael Grant
There were so many people, so much to navigate, and as the distance fluctuated between us his hand kept slipping, down my arm to my… — Sarah Dessen
For there is no bond more lasting than that formed by the mutual confidences of that magic time when youth is slipping from the sheath… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
...You can have this whole entire life, with all your opinions, your loves, your fears. Eventually those parts of you disappear. And then the people… — Katherine Howe
I tried to breathe, failing. I clutched her to me, tears slipping from under my closed eyes. It was as if her soul was liquid… — Kim Harrison
The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away. — William Golding
Someday no one will remember that she ever existed, I wrote in my notebook, and then, or that I did. Because memories fall apart, too.… — John Green
In the midst of her tears came the thought, "When people are in danger, they ask God to save them;" and, slipping down upon her… — Louisa May Alcott
He was only twenty-five.He was young enough to miss his youth just as it was slipping away. The worst kind of loss-the one that is… — Emma Forrest
For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear as a bell and the… — Suzanne Collins
Guidance, like all God's acts of blessing under the covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely does God will to guide us in… — J I Packer
I can't pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its jacket, or hand… — Pat Conroy
Piglet opened the letter box and climbed in. Then, having untied himself, he began to squeeze into the slit, through which in the old days… — A A Milne
but it's not safe and I can feel him slipping away, so I just get out one more sentence. "Stay with me." As the tendrils… — Suzanne Collins
Unless you are terribly, terribly careful, you run the danger-- without even knowing it is happening to you-- of slipping into the fatal error of… — Edward Albee
A terrorist doesn't let strangers into her flat because they might be undercover police or intelligence agents, but her children bring their mates home and… — Robert Muchamore
William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. "In the time of your life--live!"… — Tennessee Williams

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