Slips Away Quotes

37 quotes by 36 authors

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
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
Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it]. — Publilius Syrus
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
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
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
We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day. — Barbara Johnson
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
You think, 'Here's something I can hold on to,' but it always slips away. — Tim Tharp
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
Sometimes while you wait for what you think is better, Philomene said, what is good enough slips away. — Lalita Tademy
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
Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away. — Philip Yancey
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
Time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days. — Bruce Springsteen
Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away. — Walter Darby Bannard
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
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
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
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

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