Quotes About Slipping

#1. My voice had bayou gut them slipping out of their story like a bookmark forgotten by a reader between the pages

Cornelia Funke

#2. [Mulder] slowed as he approached the front walk, slipping his left hand into his pocket to wrap around his gun. Front or back? Wait for Scully, or do the stupid thing and go in on his own?
He had no realistic alternative.

Charles Grant

#3. She didn't pick her way over the terrain like she was afraid of slipping on the ice...She glided over it with long confident strides. Her hands were in her vest pockets. Her eyes were Susannah.

Shirley A. Martin

#4. The most remarkable thing about him were his eyes. They were laughing eyes, at once both joyous and tender: they were the radiant pale blue of a sky slipping toward evening in Heaven, when angels who had been sweet all day found themselves tempted to sin.

Cassandra Clare

#5. And then when you are actually in the moment and you see the time slipping away from you, you realize it wasn't just something people said in songs and poems and books. It was something those people had actually felt and been through.

Dan Skinner

#6. If you slip, it doesn't mean you're less valuable. It simply means that you have something to learn from slipping.

Wayne Dyer

#7. In our pursuit for the ultimate knowledge, the technologies we created eventually enslaved us, taking the last of our humanity before we even knew it was slipping away.

A.G. Riddle

#8. I feel domesticity just slipping off me. It is a choice. Either one can let it go or one can intensify it. The people who intensify it seem to get quite a lot of interest out of that, too, and are as preoccupied as pirates.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

#9. Was slipping, and his face had gone as white as my own. He looked down again, avoiding my stricken gaze. "I suppose all I was wondering," he murmured, "was ... was he ... was he different from me?" I saw him bite his lip as though wishing the words unsaid, but it was far too late

Diana Gabaldon

#10. As hipster chicks age, and their skin starts to sag, tramp stamps sink below waistbands, like the sun slipping into the sea ...

Dana Gould

#11. Slipping in the side door to the VIP section , she scanned the crowd , well aware that she was looking for one male in particular.
And he was there.
Fucking John Matthew.

J.R. Ward

#12. [T]o live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it, but ... to live with the hands stretched out both to give and receive with gladness.

Frederick Buechner

#13. He felt his consciousness slipping, his mind losing adhesion, until all he knew was a single thought: He cannot break me.

Laura Hillenbrand

#14. The door opened. She looked in the mirror and suppressed a curse. Slipping in behind some tourists, that winged shadow was back again. Karou rose and made for the bathroom, where she took the note that Kishmish had come to deliver.
Again it bore a single word. But this time the word was Please.

Laini Taylor

#15. Another tip to weld society together. Give the person up to bat at the ATM plenty of space so they're not nervous about you peeking at their PIN number or slipping a blade between their ribs the second the money spits out.

Tim Dorsey

#16. It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.

George Bernard Shaw

#17. I Sat back in the chair, surveying the view in front of me like some savvy superhero, safe in her secret lair.
& that's when I saw it; a shadow slipping across the lower corner of camera seventeen.

Ripley Patton

#18. Holding the bread to her chest, she made her way home, thinking of those dreamy winter afternoons, when the light looked as it did now, the crystalline blue of the sky slipping into a faded purple, as faint as a bruise.

Alexis Landau

#19. You're my wife," he said, only inches away, his hot breath flickering over my lips. "You married me in Las Vegas two years ago."
"Yes."
"And I'm your husband."
I nodded, tears slipping out.
He gritted his teeth and growled out, "And this is us, consummating our marriage.

Elle Casey

#20. Shades of gray, I thought, knowing I was slipping into places I had vowed I'd never go.

Kim Harrison

#21. I'll tell you what surprises me."
"Is it my eyes? Is it my lips?"
"It's your cat," he said.
"I don't have a cat."
"That's what surprises me."
"You think I'm a cat person."
"I see you with a cat, definitely. There ought to be a cat slipping along the walls.

Don DeLillo

#22. Conviction that it was out Interest to be completely virtuous, was not sufficient to prevent our Slipping ...

Benjamin Franklin

#23. You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes, it's all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50 and your dreams are gone.

George Carlin

#24. Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves?

Plutarch

#25. How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. By accepting the human condition more simply, and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#26. The childlike sense of wonder that we had as children, the sense that there is adventure in each activity, is partly what gave us such strong memories when we were young - it's not that we're slipping into dementia.

Daniel J. Levitin

#27. I don't know whether I see it as slipping inside the villains, but part of what makes Ralph Nader and Michael Moore such effective speakers and communicators is that they know how corporate culture works, how our lawmaking bodies really work, and where the bones are buried.

Jello Biafra

#28. A lot's riding on 'Dune,' and my friends in Seattle realize what's happening if I freak out a bit. They accept whatever I happen to be, and they tell me when I'm slipping out of Kyle. They call me the 'God Emperor of the Universe.'

Kyle MacLachlan

#29. I can already feel some things slipping through my fingers like sand and water, like artifacts and poems, like everything you want to hold on to and can't.

Ally Condie

#30. I get some acting jobs. I like it other than the constant slipping in and out of character.

Andy Kindler

#31. Single girl survival tip 101: always let strange men know you're not alone. This way they know not to try anything stupid like slipping roofies in your drink.

Claudia Lefeve

#32. Books. They tumbled from the bleeding sky like wounded birds. The spines snapping open and the pages fanning white. Black letters slipping off the slanted pages and falling, falling to the ground where they ... Shatter.

Natasha Mostert

#33. Instead of writing backwards over what had happened, giving structure and meaning to his story, he wrote forwards, slipping into troubling futures.

Alan McCluskey

#34. It came to me then, like a chilly draught from an unseen gap, that I had always known in my deepest heart that it would be like this, a slipping away from a life full of people I had come to love, in a place I had helped to shape, in a land I had helped to free.

Isobelle Carmody

#35. Just the tip, sweetheart." He nudges against me, slipping along my wetness, as I whimper. His voice goes dark. "Just for a second.

Kristen Callihan

#36. Your not gone yet, but I can feel you slipping, slipping away.

Elizabeth Heller

#37. You can tell a paragraph is slipping out of control when there's a runaway use of the word 'hence.

Alain De Botton

#38. The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slipping out of it altogether and being at last what he always was, a spirit. We buried the pearly shell upon the mountain top.

Pearl S. Buck

#39. He said nothing; there was no expression on his face at all. His eyelids were hooded, and I could almost feel the way he was slipping back, away, into that place that was his alone.

Alexandra Bracken

#40. Is there anything more heartbreaking than drowning in sight of land? Is there a single one of us who hasn't at least once felt haunted by the fear of slipping away within sight of a safe haven?

Carsten Jensen

#41. I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind.

Roy Blount Jr.

#42. and dangerous depths of the labyrinth that was her depression. It had prevented her from slipping

Gilly Macmillan

#43. He drove into me hard, slipping into my slick tunnel with ease. "Who are you to me?"
My blood stirred in my veins from me just hearing the question. "You're queen.

Kenya Wright

#44. Your embrace feels like slipping the key in the front door.

LeAnne Mechelle

#45. At best, love is simply the slipping of a hand in another's, of knowing you are where you belong at last, and of exchanging through the eyes that all-consuming regard which ignores everybody else on earth.

Laurie Lee

#46. I could feel what was left of my soul just slipping away as I fed on that girl until she was totally and completely drained.

Daniele Lanzarotta

#47. You probably didn't hear me, but I told you I loved you that night. I couldn't seem to stop it from slipping out. Then you cried for Denny, and I wanted to die again.

S.C. Stephens

#48. Piglet opened the letter box and climbed in. Then, having untied himself, he began to squeeze into the slit, through which in the old days when front doors were front doors, many an unexpected letter than WOL had written to himself, had come slipping.

A.A. Milne

#49. I know is, one minute I'm ticking along fine and life is sweet and I want for nothing, and the next I can't wait to get away, I'm all over the place, slipping and sliding again.

Paula Hawkins

#50. He could feel the cum slipping out of Ty, dripping down his cock, and yet it continued. Ty

Abigail Roux

#51. I studied him a moment before slipping my arms around his waist. "I guess you look human enough," I said casually, and he raised an eyebrow. Arrogant faery. He knows exactly how gorgeous he is . "Come on,' I said, tugging him toward the carriage. "We should hurry or we'll miss our reservation.

Julie Kagawa

#52. I feel the ground slipping under my feet, and just as I am about to fall off the precipice, you draw out a rope and pull me into the safety net of your embrace. That's the thing - I can never trust you to rescue me, and yet you do. Unfailingly.

Rosalyn D'Mello

#53. The cross. He held one in his hand, gold and shiny in the morning sun. This, too, drove the vampires away.
Why? Was there a logical answer, something he could accept without slipping on banana skins of mysticism?

Richard Matheson

#54. He wasn't sure what he was saying, either, but he felt as if he were slipping into some dangerous world - one where answers ceased to be easy.

Courtney Milan

#55. 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

#56. God will make the way clear when the choices you make are in accordance with His will and His purpose, when you listen to His desires for your life." Slipping

Hallee Bridgeman

#57. I can feel myself slipping away. Slowly leaving who and what I am behind. - Dylan

Dannielle Wicks

#58. I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while.

Jeri Ryan

#59. Censorship is not an occupation that attracts intelligent, subtle minds. Censors can and often have been outwitted. But the game of slipping Aesopian messages past the censor is ultimately a sterile one, diverting writers from their proper task.

J.M. Coetzee

#60. Sitting there on the swing set, in her bare feet and blue dress, her hair slipping out of its ponytail, she was so gorgeous that it hurt.

Robyn Schneider

#61. I luxuriate more in a whole day alone; a day of easy natural poses; slipping tranquilly off into the deep water of my own thoughts, navigating the underworld.

Virginia Woolf

#62. However, like a piece of tracing paper slipping away, everything had, little by little, become irreparably different than it had been in the past.

Haruki Murakami

#63. Memory has a way of slipping a few gears after sixty-five, when people round the third turn start down the home stretch. He

Stephen King

#64. Oh, America is slipping away from the rest of the consciousness of the planet - slipping away.

Chuck D

#65. Because what touches His heart is not how much we know, but how much we love. Not how pure we are, but how passionate. Maybe that is why, when Pharisees were fighting over theology, prostitutes were falling at the Savior's feet and slipping into the kingdom of God on their tears.

Ken Gire

#66. Slipping away are the hopes that made Bliss out of sorrow, and sun out of shade, Slipping away is our hold on life; And out of the struggle and wearing strife ...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#67. I know there is a moment when sound slips down the torn lining of itself into silence, is carried unheard and secret in its own pocket. But the crimson birds could find no such escape, no means of slipping beyond themselves between the cracks of color and song to a white undiscovered silence.

Janet Frame

#68. You never quite realize how much you love and need him until the very moment you realize he's slipping away ...

Alice

#69. When your institution is under threat, you feel you have a lot of hostility, you feel things are slipping away, you have got internal problems, there's a tendency to turn inward and to focus on yourselves.

David Brooks

#70. I like a new clean book, freshly bound, particularly when I am the first to read it. I like dirty books - where other people have been before me, slipping fried eggs between the pages as markers - rather less.

Nancy Spain

#71. So shut the window tight and make sure the latch is fastened. Dark things have a way of slipping in through narrow spaces.

Leigh Bardugo

#72. I'm fine. Really. The mere threat of mouth-to-mouth probably saved me from slipping into a coma."
"That's what I'm here for," Seth replied cheerfully.

Lisa Roecker

#73. The day coming to her in small, liquid moments, sleep slipping into wakefulness like the slow merging of two steams.
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Erica Bauermeister

#74. I was slipping, man, and it was definetly time to get a grip.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#75. She squirmed in his embrace, slipping around in his arms to face him. He smiled at her, one of those lazy, melting smiles he gave so rarely, and kissed her.

Karen Marie Moning

#76. And here's the burglar!" said Bilbo stepping down into the middle of them, and slipping off the ring.

Anonymous

#77. George feels flattered and excited ... He can't resist slipping into the role Kenny so temptingly offers him.

Christopher Isherwood

#78. After a day spent running around outside, Clara never went home without first slipping through the orchard, where she would stop to pray to the spirits of enclosure to prepare her for her return within four walls.

Muriel Barbery

#79. The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.

Adam Driver

#80. Nor do I want the woman that I'm married to and that I love to leave me, but the thought of her doing so moves me in a way that our growing old together and contentedly slipping, in affectionate tandem, toward the grave does not.

Richard Russo

#81. I feel the weight of time passing, slipping through my fingers faster than I can hold on to it.

Caisey Quinn

#82. We were late among the living, and by the time God got to us ice was already slipping from the poles as if from an imperfectly decorated cake.

William H Gass

#83. Lexie's baby. Four weeks ... not quite a quarter of an inch: a tiny gemstone, a single spark of color slipping between your fingers and through the cracks and gone. A heart the size of a fleck of glitter and vibrating like a hummingbird, seeded with a billion things that would never happen now.

Tana French

#84. It's all we ever wantedAnd all we'll ever needAnd now it's slipping through our fingersFaster than the speed of night.

Jim Steinman

#85. I don't understand the constant need to prove one's manhood, as if it is always on the verge of slipping away. We never need to prove our womanhood.

Stacey Lee

#86. I keep scraping the canvas
And painting him over again
But he keeps slipping away

Edward Hirsch

#87. For there is no bond more lasting than that formed by
the mutual confidences of that magic time when youth is slipping from
the sheath of childhood and beginning to wonder what lies for it beyond
those misty hills that bound the golden road.

L.M. Montgomery

#88. The fears that the few good things that make you happy are slipping through your fingers, and the frustrations that the bad things you hate about yourself or your situation can't be changed - these fears and these frustrations are what Christmas came to destroy.

John Piper

#89. You marked up my neck last night with that filthy mouth of yours. And you know what else?" Troy felt his defenses slipping. Against his better judgment, he looked down and immediately got lost in her green eyes. "I like it. Having your marks on me.

Tessa Bailey

#90. Like slipping on a banana peel around a corner at eighty miles an hour. Piece of cake.

Brandon Sanderson

#91. You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all about you again. But it's not all about you. Love doesn't work that way.

David Levithan

#92. However, Harry, my clock has stopped. The embalmer is rolling up his sleeves. Even as we speak, seventy-two virgins are slipping into schoolgirl uniforms for me. You must live, and I confirm: always put your penis first.

Hanif Kureishi

#93. You shouldn't be looking for people slipping up, you should be looking for all the good things people do and praising those.

Richard Branson

#94. I'm sorry, Nick," I whispered, slipping his pendant from my neck. "I didn't know what else to do.

Katherine Allred

#95. I feel sorry for beautiful people. Beauty, from the moment you possess it, is already slipping away, ephemeral. That must be difficult.

Gail Honeyman

#96. Sometimes that's what happens. No cigarette burns, no bone snaps. Just an irretrievable slipping.

Gillian Flynn

#97. Ever catch me slipping? Nigga that's a no-no.

Me

#98. I like my life now," she said. "I don't need it to change."
"But it is changing," Benjamin Stanhope said, "None of us can hold things where we want them to be. It is all slipping and changing, Alice.

Kate Alcott

#99. All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.

Salman Khan

#100. Non-attachment is not complacency. It doesn't imply a lack of caring and commitment. The philosophy of non-attachment is based in the understanding that holding on too tightly to those things, which in any case are always going to be slipping through our fingers, hurts and gives us rope burn.

Lama Surya Das