Slipping Quotes

179 Slipping quotes by 157 unique authors

When I was little, my friends would gush over wedding gowns and honeymoons. But I saw too many people flush decades together down the toilet… — Ellen Hopkins
Two hundred miles from the surface of the earth there is no gravity. The laws of motion are suspended. You could turn somersaults slowly slowly,… — Jeanette Winterson
In your hands The dog, the donkey, surely they know They are alive. Who would argue otherwise? But now, after years of consideration, I am… — Mary Oliver
[Qhuinn looking a Blay] A tear escaped from that eye . Welling up along the lower lid, it coalesced at the far corner, formed a… — J R Ward
During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The trip was to… — Tahir Shah
I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the… — Neil Gaiman
When he talked to you, you seemed to fit in, but when someone else was talking, or he would be distracted, you jsut looked lonely… — David Levithan
She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the disorders of strewn… — Anais Nin
Well, mi amore, this is awesome news! Let's get right on that," said Kami, and began to undo the buttons of her blouse. She looked… — Sarah Rees Brennan
I didn’t fall in love with James. Falling sounds like an accident. Falling hurts. I’d fallen in love with Michael, fallen hard like slipping off… — Megan Hart
She did nothing to try to control the shakes that rattled her body,and didn't attempt to stop herself from crying. Tears left both of her… — J R Ward
You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all about you again. But it's not all about… — David Levithan
Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear. — Lauren Oliver
I was slipping, man, and it was definetly time to get a grip. — Wendelin Van Draanen
Here and gone. That’s what it is to be human, I think—to be both someone and no one at once, to hold a particular identity… — Mark Doty
The night that seemed endless hours before is now slipping through your fingers, ticking by as it falls into the past and pushes you towards… — Erin Morgenstern
The most remarkable thing about him were his eyes. They were laughing eyes, at once both joyous and tender: they were the radiant pale blue… — Cassandra Clare
Time was like the rain, glittering as it fell, changing the world, but something that could also be taken for granted. Until you love a… — Cassandra Clare
. . . [T]o live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the… — Frederick Buechner
All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping… — Salman Khan
I was so afraid to make mistakes and get reprimanded by my coaches that the joy of the sport started slipping away. — Dominique Moceanu
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string. — George Dennison Prentice
I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards. — Paul Wolfowitz
The American Dream may be slipping away. We have overcome such challenges before. To recover the Dream requires knowing where it came from, how it… — Jon Meacham
I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind. — Roy Blount, Jr.

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