Slips Quotes

175 quotes by 157 authors

Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out. — Laozi
Sometimes while you wait for what you think is better, Philomene said, what is good enough slips away. — Lalita Tademy
Nothing in the outer world makes you feel any way. You decide what you want to feel, and then use outer people and events as… — Alan Cohen
Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost. — Harold Pinter
Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts,… — Joseph Campbell
God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips, acts with a hand that never fails — Charles Spurgeon
Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry. When someone intrudes into the poet's life (and any sudden personal contact, whether in the bed or in the… — Jack Spicer
If his IQ slips any lower, we'll have to water him twice a day — Molly Ivins
The past slips from our grasp. It leaves us only scattered things. The bond that united them eludes us. Our imagination usually fills in the… — Igor Stravinsky
Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away. — Philip Yancey
Glacier Gray is an unobtrusive gray that contrasts and enhances; bouncing off other shades without taking away from them as it slips into the background… — Leatrice Eiseman
And to my lipsâ€™ Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn... — D. H. Lawrence
When all is said and done, is there any more wonderful sight, any moment when man's reason is nearer to some sort of contact with… — Saint Augustine
It's a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a pile of confetti. Publishers should… — Jerry Spinelli
By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips. — Laurell K. Hamilton
Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all over,… — Jerry Spinelli
I believe truly that Satan cannot endure it and so slips out of the room - more or less - when there is a true… — Amy Carmichael
God's hand never slips. — Billy Graham
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven. — George Sand
I married a woman who's not going to take anything. No slips. She's very accountable, and she holds me very accountable. — Joe Nichols

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157 authors contributed a total of 175 Slips Quotes, led by these top contributors: