Slips Quotes

175 quotes by 159 authors

It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure… — A A Milne
Oh no, I never do much ironing, except the outside clothes. We must not iron out the fresh air and sunshine, you know. It is… — Laura Ingalls Wilder
Life isn't a straightforward climb up the ladder. It can take a few slips to really gain perspective. — Kate Jacobs
When the dawn light is coursing through the slats in the shutters at last, making thin stripes on the floor, she, tossing, decides that for… — Gregory Maguire
No, I don't think you understand just how stupid goblins are. Let me give you an example. One of the B'wa Kell generals, and this… — Eoin Colfer
I am a mess. Like that MargieMocha, I am spilled across a floor, but there's nobody to mop me up. I have only one thing… — Jerry Spinelli
I love my rejection slips. They show me I try. — Sylvia Plath
Thanking people is dangerous business. A name always slips your mind. — John Wayne
Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean,… — Joseph Conrad
I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how… — Yann Martel
Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to it, and the… — Salman Rushdie
But when you're in front of an audience and you make them laugh at a new idea, you're guiding the whole being for the moment.… — George Carlin
For a moment Ethan simply stares. Before him is the monster of his nightmares: his sister's murderer, the beast who robbed him of his greatest… — Marianne Curley
But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that moment, it's not… — Anne Michaels
I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and again, the word slips out, but I hate… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Pain is what I feed from when nothing else will nourish the noxious fury in my heart. Itâ€™s what I cling to when everything elseâ€”everyone… — Rachel Vincent
Walking with Murphy through the bone-freezing chill toward the bus stop, I start shivering. And somehow, when he slips his arm around me to warm… — Sonya Sones
Fate rules. You follow the steps and you plan and you work. Then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can… — Nora Roberts
Looking back, I could not point to one special time and say, There! That's what is amazing. We can change completely and not recognize it.… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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