Slips Quotes

175 quotes by 159 authors

Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again. — Robin Sharma
I cling to my anger with every ounce of humanity left in my ruined body, but it's no use. It slips away, like a wave… — Sara Gruen
I had immediate success in the sense that I sold something right off the bat. I thought it was going to be a piece of… — Fred Saberhagen
Heaven's net is very vast. It is sparsely meshed, yet nothing slips through. — Laozi
What is the Absolute? Something that appears to us in fleeting experiences--say, through the gentle smile of a beautiful woman, or even through the warm… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have… — David Leavitt
We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day. — Barbara Johnson
The adult who puts his arm around his companion in the ballroom, and the child in the roadway, skipping in a round dance - they… — Curt Sachs
He slips . . . but manages to regroup himself. — Dan Maskell
God's hand never slips. He never makes a mistake. His every move is for our own good and for our ultimate good. — Billy Graham
What if this young woman, who writes such bad poems, in competition with her husband, whose poems are equally bad, should stretch her remarkably long… — Gilbert Sorrentino
When weâ€™re unaware that we share the power to co-create reality with the universe itself, that power slips away from us, causing our dream to… — Alberto Villoldo
Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory. — John Calvin
It had been fourteen years and I hadn't had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published and it was… — Lisa Alther
Writing down your thoughts is both necessary and harmful. It leads to eccentricity, narcissism, preserves what should be let go. On the other hand, these… — Anna Kamienska
You think, 'Here's something I can hold on to,' but it always slips away. — Tim Tharp
The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is like trying to… — Alan Watts
Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips… — Elisabeth Elliot
The stream sings a subdued music, a scarcely audible lilt, faint and fluid syllables not quite said. It slips away into its future, where it… — John Daniel

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