Slips Quotes
175 quotes by 159 authors
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The grief in her green eyes slips then hardens and, for an instant, Pendleton sees the woman she has become and has no right being,…
— Ilsa J. Bick
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The best stories I have heard were pointless, the best books those whose plot I can never remember, the best individuals those whom I never…
— Henry Miller
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I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations,…
— Anais Nin
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The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.
— Dan Ariely
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It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the…
— Fannie Flagg
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There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life---real life---seems to exist at one remove.
— Jojo Moyes
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Both light and shadow are the dance of Love. Love has no cause, it is the astrolabe of God's secrets. Lover and loving are inseparable…
— Rumi
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Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and methodical in its…
— James Lee Burke
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It is not true that fate slips silently into our lives. It steps in through the door that we have opened, and we invite it…
— Sándor Márai
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Willie said normal was boring and that I should be grateful that I had a touch of spice. She said no one cared about boring…
— Ruta Sepetys
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The tongue never slips – remember this always. What goes on within the mind comes invariably on the tongue.
— Rajneesh
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People say that time slips through our fingers like sand. What they don't acknowledge is that some of the sand sticks to the skin. These…
— David Levithan
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By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I…
— Stephen King
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Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.
— Holly Black
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Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way around…
— Isaac Asimov
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I try to write as serious as possible, and then a joke slips in.
— Jeff Lindsay
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I guess sometimes the ground can shift between your feet. Sometimes your footing slips. You stumble. And sometimes you grab what's close to you and…
— The Wonder Years
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The more we try to catch hold of the present moment the more elusive it becomes. It is like trying to clutch water in ones…
— Alan Watts
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At the age of ten, he is a child; at twenty, a youth, and at thirty, he is called handsome. At forty, he is full…
— Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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You don't know what you love until you lose it, you don't know what you have until it slips away, leaves you alone in the…
— Superman
Who Wrote These Slips Quotes
159 authors contributed a total of 175 Slips Quotes, led by these top contributors: