Slips Quotes

175 quotes by 159 authors

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I… — James Lee Burke
Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join others and push... You live, you help. — Ram Dass
I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick and heat my… — Muhammad Ali
It sometimes seems that we live as if we wonder when life is going to begin. It isn't always clear just what we are waiting… — Richard L. Evans
Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only… — Minor White
My goal is to achieve a little less injustice in Uruguay, to help the most vulnerable and to leave behind a political way of thinking,… — Jose Mujica
I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul… — Georges Bernanos
The secret to success can be found in people's daily agendas. If they do something intentional to grow every day, they move closer to reaching… — John C. Maxwell
I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and… — Ta-Nehisi Coates
The intimate and the infinite are tangled together in this incandescent book, lit by Aristotleâ€™s bright spark of a daughter. Lucid even in nightmare, The… — Marina Endicott
Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it]. — Publilius Syrus
I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush… — Vikas Swarup
As soon as we see our dreams betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality, and we… — Natalia Ginzburg
I've got a folder full of rejection slips that I keep. Know why? Because those same editors are now calling my agent hoping I'll write… — MaryJanice Davidson
Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you.… — John Lennon
The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite. — C.S. Lewis
No matter what we have come through, or how many perils we have safely passed, or how many imperfect and jagged - in some places… — Randolph Bourne
I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long. — Louise Brown
I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to… — Lisa Alther
To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as… — Anita Shreve

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