Quotes About Slip

#1. I slip off my flats and walk down the front porch steps, while Mother calls out for me to put my shoes back on, threatening ringworm, mosquito, encephalitis. The inevitability of death by no shoes. Death by no husband.

Kathryn Stockett

#2. A wise man who has the moment in his hand should not let that moment slip.

Louis Farrakhan

#3. I don't think he meant to kiss me," I said finally.
"What? Did he slip and fall on your mouth? Those things are known to happen.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#4. Director Park asking that if there was a pocket on one side of the piece of clothing then there should be a pocket on the other side. They were a little uncomfortable to wear, yes, because there were a lot of tight, high-waisted things so it was great at the end of the day to slip into some pajamas!

Mia Wasikowska

#5. When we carry a safety net made of cash, we allow the one made of community to slip through our fingers.

Ben Hewitt

#6. Don't let the smallest chance slip by; you never know until you try

Dorothy L. Sayers

#7. Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God.

Max Lucado

#8. Do not slip into writing for the mind and the mind alone. In other words, do not play merely upon our ability to reason. And do not focus only on visuals. Write for the whole person.

N.D. Wilson

#9. You just can't beat slip covers for giving that friendly air hospitals need so desperately.

Dorothy Draper

#10. A feeling of discouragement when you slip up is a sure sign that you put your faith in deeds

Ahmad Ibn ?Ajiba

#11. I remember thinkin theworld still felt as if it was made of glass, and I had to be damned careful not to slip on it n cut myself when I had to let go ...

Stephen King

#12. Toward evening, Harriet found herself thinking the oddest thoughts: that twilight is not really dark. It's gray. The sun gone, the world turns gray, without emotion, without color. It seemed a fitting time for a little girl to slip free of all this pain, to let go.

Eloisa James

#13. I had a one day slip, Matt. So what do you do? You get up and you go on, and you try not to do it again.

Liza Minnelli

#14. Memories slip, you know, if you don't take the time to find a way to make them stay.

Estelle Laure

#15. Tailing someone is like maintaining a relationship: you keep at it until they give you the slip, or until they confirm everything you suspect them of.

Mark Crutchfield

#16. Her response confirmed he was right. Vanilla sex wouldn't be her preference. Yes, he was a sexual dominant. But, unlike most of his fellow masters, he could do without the formalities of D/s and slip into "regular" sex if that was what his woman required in the moment.

Elizabeth SaFleur

#17. No one conceals something in his heart, but Allah causes it to be seen on his face or in a slip of the tongue.

Uthman Ibn Affan

#18. As we Christians strive to be more influenced by God's kingdom than by this world, we're reminded we will sometimes slip, but 'if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness' (1 John 1:9).

Van Harden

#19. At a certain point, you must be able to slip loose. At a certain point, you found that you had been set free.
You could be anyone, he thought.
You could be anyone.

Dan Chaon

#20. The Lord remembers with love and does not let any small detail slip his memory.

Evgenij Vodolazkin

#21. It is not proven that Elizabeth's person equilibrium was set off balance by the slant of the office floor, nor could it be proven that it was Elizabeth who pushed the building off its foundations, but it is undeniable that they began to slip at about the same time.

Shirley Jackson

#22. Scar tissue has no character. It's not like skin. It doesn't show age or illness or pallor or tan. It has no pores, no hair, no wrinkles. It's like a slip cover. It shields and disguises what's beneath. That's why we grow it; we have something to hide.

Susanna Kaysen

#23. Finally, Karen Gerdes is the gentle force that put me back together after the events of my life tore me apart, and the one that has kept me whole. Whenever I slip back into the world of shadows, she is the one who leads me back into the light.

Martha N. Beck

#24. He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.

Jodi Picoult

#25. You know, all writers are vampires and they'll look around and they watch you when you're not even thinking they're watching you and they'll slip stuff in.

James Gandolfini

#26. Sometimes we get caught up in our troubles and our problems and we let life slip away, but life is precious, all of life, and one must try to take in as much of it as possible.

Yanni

#27. there was many a slip twixt cup and lip.

Mary Balogh

#28. Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.

Paula Abdul

#29. Dramatic and emotional trading experiences tend to be negative. Pride is a great banana peel, as are hope, fear, and greed. My biggest slip-ups occurred shortly after I got emotionally involved with positions.

Ed Seykota

#30. The best ideas come unexpectedly from a conversation or a common activity like watering the garden. These can get lost or slip away if not acted on when they occur.

Ruth Asawa

#31. I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time.

Deborah Bull

#32. Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters.

Teresa Mummert

#33. I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home.

Cathy Guisewite

#34. You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way - and they die. You feel you want to die making an effort at something; you don't want to die in some unnecessary way.

Christopher Walken

#35. Black Tragedy lets slip her grim disguise and shows you laughing lips and roguish eyes; but when, unmasked, gay Comedy appears, how wan her cheeks are, and what heavy tears!

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#36. A bag of bones can slip through small cracks in a crowd effortlessly.

Kris Kidd

#37. I met my wife on a ferry boat, and when we landed she gave me the slip

Groucho Marx

#38. Every now and then, if I allow my mental focus to slip, I catch myself looking at her face and forgetting how to breathe. I guess these things take time to fade completely.

Melissa Keil

#39. All those hints and glimpses of a larger and more satisfying democracy, which literature and our own hopes supply, have a tendency to slip away from us and to leave us sadly unguided and perplexed when we attempt to act upon them.

Jane Addams

#40. What is the soul? What color is it? I suspected my soul, being mischievous, might slip away while I was dreaming and fail to return. I did my best not to fall asleep, to keep it inside of me where it belonged.

Patti Smith

#41. Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

D.H. Lawrence

#42. Ambrose Young felt himself slip and slide, falling helplessly
with very little resistance
in love with Fern Taylor.

Amy Harmon

#43. Dost thou
Not feel them slip,
How cold! how cold! the moon's
Thin wavering finger-tips, along
Thy throat?

Adelaide Crapsey

#44. So I lied to you last night. I said I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you. And that's why I have to slip out of your window now, like a coward. Because if I had to tell you this yo your face, I couldn't make myself go.

Cassandra Clare

#45. do I look like the kind of girl to lie back demurely so my gentleman friend can politely slip his penis inside my vagina? I think not." He

E.J. Shortall

#46. Because in the end nothing matters all that much, as he also wrote on another slip, and on his last slip he'd written, it's all the same.

Thomas Bernhard

#47. Even if you are perfect, the world isn't. The secret is to know that the deck is stacked, that you will lose, that your hands or judgment will slip, and yet still struggle to win...

Paul Kalanithi

#48. Ask what you would teach if you were in charge of the school system. There is no excuse to be passive and let your education slip past you. Take those important topics and learn them for yourself. Be

I.C. Robledo

#49. But if there is such a thing as social commitment in literature, I think it must manifest itself in a reader's awareness of the human condition, in the writer's touching some common nerve ending. I think this kind of social commitment, like a lady's slip, should be there but it must not show.

Bel Kaufman

#50. People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.

Samantha Mumba

#51. We draw our lines around these moments of pain, and remain upon our islands, and they cannot hurt us. They are covered with a smooth, safe, nacreous layer to let them slip, pearl-like, from our souls without real pain. Fiction

Neil Gaiman

#52. I was told that when you hit forty men stop looking at you. It's true, until you slip on a mini-skirt.

Mariella Frostrup

#53. I shut my eyes
and see a pocket of darkness.
I want to fold myself
flat and crisp,
slip inside of it
like a sheet of paper
into an envelope.

Samantha Schutz

#54. I watch as DJ easily bends down to slip under the ropes. He stands up to his full height and walks into the middle of the ring and my brain immediately drops right into my vagina.

Tara Sivec

#55. In chess, knowledge is a very transient thing. It changes so fast that even a single mouse-slip sometimes changes the evaluation.

Viswanathan Anand

#56. If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

Bruce Lee

#57. I tried to slip past her again, but she blocked my path and then stomped her foot down in front of me again, pretending like she was Gandalf and I was the balrog.

Ernest Cline

#58. What we do with this peace-whether we preserve it and defend it, or whether we lose it and let it slip away-will be the measure of our worthiness of the spirit and sacrifice of the hundreds of thousands who gave their lives in two World Wars, Korea, and in Vietnam.

Richard M. Nixon

#59. Under every burden, ... God will slip His hand. Every gulf of sorrow, ... His great love has spanned, Into every heart-ache, ... God will our His balm: Ease the pain and anguish, ... bring a blessed calm.

Frances J Roberts

#60. The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.

Harrison Ford

#61. Jenn: Do you love him?
Ani: Yeah, I do.
Jenn: Then you can forgive him. It's not worth it to let love slip through your hands.

Cheyenne McCray

#62. I got into acting for the chance to be many different people and many different characters. I love hiding in a role and doing the research. If there is an opportunity to change my body, I will change my body. I'll slip in and disguise myself in a role. That is a really big treat for me.

Ashley Bell

#63. Great entrepreneurs are never out of the game for long. They slip many times, but they don't fall.

Ryan Holiday

#64. I couldn't stop staring.
"Sweetheart," he said, "is my slip showing or something?

Shelly Reuben

#65. I slip from workaholic to bum real easy.

Matthew Broderick

#66. My heartaches, sadness has consumed me, emptiness has filled me, hold me do not let me slip away.

Jonah Books

#67. The Tao is always at ease. It overcomes without competing, answers without speaking a word, arrives without being summoned, accomplishes without a plan. Its net covers the whole universe. And though its meshes are wide, it doesn't let a thing slip through.

Laozi

#68. Growing up with my family gave me some of my best memories. I'd like to have a family of my own - slip away for a bit and do nothing but spend those early years with my children.

Katherine Jenkins

#69. You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.

Leonard Cohen

#70. I've fallen in love with this woman, in spite of her smart mouth and wicked temper, or maybe because of them. Ellie Mason is the first woman I've ever loved, and I'll be damned if I'm gonna let her slip through my fingers again.

Carmen Jenner

#71. At this time of year, when the temperature drops, I wear non-slip shoes, a woolen scarf and a permanent frown. Forget about global warming. As I get older the world gets colder. That's a fact.

Michael Robotham

#72. I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#73. This is the profound meaning of at-tawbah, offered to everyone: sincerely returning to God after a slip, a mistake, a sin. God loves that sincere return to Him and He forgives and purifies. The

Tariq Ramadan

#74. Reminds us that greatness lies even in the smallest of moments, in the humblest of hearts, and we shall, each of us, be called to greatness. Whether we shall rise to meet it or let it slip away is the challenge put before us all.

Libba Bray

#75. For years, she had been in mourning for the way she had let her life slip through her fingers. Given another chance, she'd told herself, she would take more care to experience it. But lately, she was finding that she had experienced it after all and just forgotten, and now it was returning to her.

Anne Tyler

#76. Goddamn himself for letting his independence slip away from him. He didn't even know how it had happened, how he had lost the ability to function on his own, or what the hell he was going to do about it now.

Kimberly Gardner

#77. Most mornings I get away, slip out the door before light, set forth on the dim, gray road, letting my feet find a cadence that softly carries me on. Nobody is up - all alone my journey begins. Some

William Stafford

#78. Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.

Sylvia Plath

#79. I need to fix my makeup.I realized she probably just wanted a chance to compose herself. Maybe she just wanted to slip away completely. After what just happened, I couldn't blame her. Hell, maybe I'd get lucky and we could end this whole thing now.

Joe Schreiber

#80. Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters ... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols.

Ernest Hemingway,

#81. I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.

Michelle Williams

#82. If I slip up and receive a good gift, I will not have given a good gift. This is probably a natural law that affects us all and needs a name. The Gift Reciprocal Law.

Padgett Powell

#83. But you don't let true happiness slip out of your grasp without one helluva fight.

Johanna Lindsey

#84. I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

Diane Lane

#85. A wild, wick slip she was

Virginia Woolf

#86. An avalanche descends onto the city. A hurricane. Teacups drift off shelves. Paintings slip off nails. In another quarter second, the sirens are inaudible. Everything is inaudible. The roar becomes loud enough to separate membranes in the middle ear.

Anthony Doerr

#87. I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.

Kristin Hersh

#88. She says things that genuinely move me. She lets her soul slip through her lips, and it's always raw and incredibly sad.

Tarryn Fisher

#89. Deconstruction: peering suspiciously at the text, I wait for it to make a slip and betray itself.

Mason Cooley

#90. But intelligence officers never really retire, they just slip into the shadows.

Stieg Larsson

#91. FATBACK'S DEAD" The words on the slip of paper struck me like a blow. "Fatback's dead." It was not just the news itself, though the words cut deep. It was the very fact of the note, stuck on my windshield on the Red Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota,

Kent Nerburn

#92. The moment that you give gratitude is the moment that you find happiness. The moment that you lose gratitude your happiness will vanish and slip through your fingers

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#93. I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.

Stanley Kubrick

#94. So life goes on. For years we plant the seed, we feel ourselves rich; and then come other years when time does its work and our plantation is made sparse and thin. One by one, our comrades slip away, deprive us of their shade.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#95. I think what I've realized is, life is all about climbing up, slipping down, and picking yourself up again. And it doesn't matter if you slip down. As long as you're kind of heading more or less upwards. That's all you can hope for. More or less upwards.

Sophie Kinsella

#96. I want to be like water. Slip through fingers, but strong enough to hold a boat.

Anonymous

#97. I turned the pages so fast. And I suppose I was, in my mindless way, looking for a something, version of myself, a heroine I could slip inside as one might a pair of favourite shoes.

Ian McEwan

#98. She agreed with everything that was planned for her, and made her own arrangements later, for she had discovered that the easiest way through life was to set out obediently upon the appointed path and then slip away down a side turning.

Elizabeth Cadell

#99. You know, I try to avoid Googling myself, but sometimes I slip up. Sometimes I just want to see how the world is viewing me on a particular day.

Nicole Scherzinger

#100. I try to do as many different roles as the system will allow me. That's the benefit of not being in a giant blockbuster where you're the lead and you get typecast in that kind of role. I am able to slip in or out of a lot of different parts.

Patrick Wilson