Slipping Away Quotes

38 quotes by 36 authors

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
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
Thereâ€™s this thing called progress. But it doesnâ€™t progress. It doesnâ€™t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away. Itâ€™s progress if… — Graham Swift
This is America. We're proud. We're not afraid of a bunch of terrorists. But this government is all about terror alerts and scaring us at… — Merle Haggard
The green prehuman earth is the mystery we were chosen to solve, a guide to the birthplace of our spirit, but it is slipping away.… — E. O. Wilson
I realized at a very young age that health is precious, and too many people don't realize it until it's slipping away, or worse yet,… — Sean Swarner
Although things seem to be sometimes going up and sometimes descending, sometimes slipping away, nevertheless there is a reality, the same today as in the… — Zhuangzi
Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away. — Bruce Springsteen
I think movie making can sometimes make you lazy in your approach. Occasionally you'll be shooting a scene and it's not even your coverage but… — Jamie Bell
I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away… — Khaled Hosseini
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
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
...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
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
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
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
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
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
Here and gone. Thatâ€™s what it is to be human, I thinkâ€”to be both someone and no one at once, to hold a particular identity… — Mark Doty

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