Slips Away Quotes
37 quotes by 36 authors
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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
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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
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Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it].
— Publilius Syrus
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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
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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
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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
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We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.
— Barbara Johnson
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When we’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
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You think, 'Here's something I can hold on to,' but it always slips away.
— Tim Tharp
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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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Sometimes while you wait for what you think is better, Philomene said, what is good enough slips away.
— Lalita Tademy
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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
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Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away.
— Philip Yancey
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It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away…
— Lady Gregory
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Time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days.
— Bruce Springsteen
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Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away.
— Walter Darby Bannard
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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
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because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass…
— Alan Paton
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This is what I know about love, That it is tested every day, and what is not renewed is lost. One chooses either to care…
— Helen Humphreys
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The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips…
— Geoffrey Chaucer
Who Wrote These Slips Away Quotes
36 authors contributed a total of 37 Slips Away Quotes, led by these top contributors: