Slip And Fall Sayings

#1. The path was worn and slippery. My foot slipped from under me, knocking the other out of the way, but I recovered and said to myself, "It's a slip and not a fall.

Abraham Lincoln

#2. We must not fall into the trap of waiting so long for the big things that we let numerous small chances slip right by us.

Ming-Dao Deng

#3. Unless was a sword held carefully by the blade. A single slip and all the delicate designs could fall apart in a clatter of severed fingers.

Sean DeLauder

#4. We said we'd walk together, and come what may, then come twilight, should we lose out way, and if we're walking a hand should slip free, I'll wait for you, and if I fall behind, wait for me.

C.A. McGroarty

#5. In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall ...

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#6. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.

Frank Morton McMurry

#7. I twirl through the driveway with angelic grace
Till I slip on the sidewalk and fall on my face

Owl City

#8. 22 Give your burdens to the LORD, and he will take care of you. He will not permit the godly to slip and fall.

Anonymous

#9. You cannot penalize a man for one slip. Then she lay wondering about the word slip. When you slip, you fall, but maybe it is not such a sore fall because you have slipped.

Jackie Kay

#10. Let the suns warmth fall on your face, bask in the light, let the shadows fall softly on your shoulders, don't look back, keep walking, feel the shadows slip away. Look forward to a new day.

Jennifer Calvert

#11. A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.

Abigail Adams

#12. She slid her boot soles onto the surface and nearly laughed at her own absurdity - to be careful not to slip even as she prayed to fall through.

Eowyn Ivey

#13. I want you to close your eyes. I want you to fall asleep first."
"Why?" She asked suddenly afraid he would slip out of the room as soon as she did.
"Because I'll be here in the morning.

Leah Clifford

#14. I'd often slip and fall on the ice after last call, which explained the ever-present welts. If I were with a woman, I'd usually execute a precautionary vomit in the men's room in an effort avoid any ugly incidents once I got her back to her place. And they say chivalry is dead.

Dan Dunn

#15. How easy it was to slip through the cracks alongside him. To fall in the very same trap I had committed to free him from.

Jonathan Friesen

#16. My fear is that these kids are always going to be evaluating their self-worth in terms of whether they hit the next rung society has placed in front of them at exactly the time that society has placed it. And that's dangerous, because you're going to slip and fall in your life.

Frank Bruni

#17. When you grab hold of one thing, you ultimately have to let go of another. Our fingers have spaces between them, just like life, and things fall through. Part of my life was ending so a new part could begin. But first you have to let go. You have to open your fingers and let slip.

Katie Kacvinsky

#18. It fortifies my soul to know That, though I perish, Truth is so: That, howsoe'er I stray and range, Whate'er I do, Thou dost not change. I steadier step when I recall That, if I slip Thou dost not fall.

Arthur Hugh Clough

#19. Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Anonymous

#20. Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.

Bernard Lonergan

#21. It's right to say that people fall in love. We don't glide, slip, or stumble into it. Instead we tumble head first from the moment we decide to step off the edge of a cliff with someone and see whether we'll fly together. Love might be irrational, but we make the choice to risk everything.

Martin Pistorius

#22. If it's a slip or even a fall in your deen (religion), don't let shaytan (satan) deceive you. Let the slip make you witness His mercy in a more experiential and deep way. And then seek that mercy to save you from your sins and your own transgression against yourself.

Yasmin Mogahed

#23. We said we'd walk together baby come what may.That come the twilight should we lose our way.If as we're walkin a hand should slip free,I'll wait for you
And should I fall behind,Wait for me.

Bruce Springsteen

#24. You might slip, you might slide You might stumble and fall by the roadside But don't you ever let nobody drag your spirit down Remember you're walking up to heaven, don't let nobody turn you around

Eric Bibb

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

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

Ryan Holiday

#29. Asking a girl if she's alright is like jaywalking across a black ice-covered 4 lane street: you think you can make it safely to the other side, but you're more likely to slip and fall to a most certain death.

David Bowick

#30. In the real world anything can happen. It's like stepping onto an icy surface - you have to adjust your footing or you'll slip and fall.

Katie Kacvinsky

#31. As looking down from great heights brings the urge to fall and end the terror of falling, so his very watching put pressure on them to make a slip as they dried and stacked the plates and cups.

John McGahern

#32. The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.

E.W. Howe

#33. How easy it is to slip.
How hard it is to climb.
How wise it is to keep in step
And never fall behind.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#34. You are the fountain of the sun. I'm the shadow of a willow. You fall upon my forehead. I melt. You slip into my heart. It spills open. You surround me with such sweetness. I make it my home.

Rumi

#35. He touched her face. "I may not slip," he said, "but I fall.

Cassandra Clare