Slip Through Your Fingers Quotes

#1. You've worked too hard to let an opportunity like this slip through your fingers - read the script.

Maggie Marr

#2. You can let love slip through your fingers, you can let money slip through your fingers, but if you let your fingers slip through your fingers, you're in trouble.

Sol Weinstein

#3. Force will not keep the empire together. Force has never kept anything together for the very long. The more you tighten your grip, the more systems will slip through your fingers. You're a foolish man Governor. Foolish men often choke to death on their own delusions.

George Lucas

#4. Beauty can be like that. Beauty cannot be trusted. Beauty can slip through your fingers like water and burn on your tongue like poison. Beauty can be the shining wall that keeps you from all you love.

Cassandra Clare

#5. 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

#6. It's amazing how friends can slip through your fingers, how your social network can vanish like it never existed.

Liane Moriarty

#7. Imagine the ability to let go of everything. To step back from the expectations of life, let it all slip through your fingers as though none of it mattered. Your doubts, your fears, your weaknesses, all of them falling like grains of sand into the wind. It feels like freedom, but it's an illusion.

Pippa DaCosta

#8. But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.

Cassandra Clare

#9. hope and passion slip through your fingers like sand and in front of you lies a vast stretch of darkness

Dazai Osamu

#10. Force has never kept anything together for very long. The more you tighten your grip, the more systems will slip through your fingers.

George Lucas

#11. This is the truth about things: If you take something that isn't yours, it will never belong to you. You can try to hold on to it, but somehow, it will slip through your fingers. If something wasn't meant to be yours, it won't be. No matter what you do to keep it, you will lose it.

Aryn Kyle

#12. Love can overcome many challenges. It's a precious treasure - worth more than all of these other miraculous things. It's the most powerful magic in the universe. Don't let it slip through your fingers. Hold onto it. Tightly.

Anonymous

#13. In heaven I'll wish with all my heart that I could reclaim a thousandth part of the time I've let slip through my fingers, that I could call back those countless conversations which could have glorified my Lord - but didn't.

Billy Graham

#14. True love was a gift. Some people never recognized true love, while others allow true love to slip through their fingers

D.F. Jones

#15. Whatever sentence I extract whole and entire from this cauldron is only a string of six little fish that let themselves be caught while a million others leap and sizzle, making the cauldron bubble like boiling silver, and slip through my fingers.

Virginia Woolf

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

Ben Hewitt

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

Anonymous

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

Michelle Williams

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. And a man who is stupid enough to let you slip through his fingers does not deserve you anyway.

Helen Brooks

#23. Sometimes things just slip past you, into your hands and out through your fingers. In my half-in/half-out state I began to wonder if that could happen to people, too.

Benjamin Brindise

#24. The worst memories stick with us, while the nice ones always seem to slip through our fingers.

Rachel Vincent

#25. She had believed him to be hers, time and again, but still she could not stay the feeling that he might at any moment slip through her fingers.

Anna Godbersen

#26. Time is one of those tricky things. It's fast to slip through our fingers and we regret each lost moment the instant it's gone. If we constantly turn around to examine our footprints, we'll miss the road ahead.

Matthew C. Plourde

#27. I don't want to wake up ten years from now regretting that I let this slip through my fingers. I don't want to waste another moment without you in my life.

A Meredith Walters

#28. As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or the blindingly exquisite fish of the imagination before they whip away on the endless current and are lost for ever in oblivion's black ocean.

Mervyn Peake

#29. I ate shit, did shit I hated, scored marks on my goddamned soul to fight for the life I wanted. Being that man, do you think I'm gonna let the first woman in my life who makes me happy slip through my fingers?

Kristen Ashley

#30. I'd discovered that when the most precious thing in your life could slip through
your fingers, investments, money, those
things suddenly meant absolutely jack.
Spencer Blackwell

Fisher Amelie

#31. But I was the daughter of a Naiad. Behave like water, I told myself. Don't try to oppose them. When they try to grasp you, slip through their fingers. Flow around them.

Margaret Atwood

#32. Grand Duchess Marie pronounced knitting a wonderful escape from life's problems: 'When the needles slip through the fingers, your imagination takes flight.' - new york times, may 12, 1936

Barbara Levine

#33. Whoever had decided that damnation was fire and brimstone was wrong. Hell was cold and ice and emptiness. Hell was watching the one I'd grasped to so tightly slip through my fingers.
Hell was realizing the one I'd come to love would never choose to love me.

Laurelin Paige

#34. 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

#35. What is hell to a writer? Hell is being too busy to find the time to write or being unable to find the inspiration. Hell is suddenly finding the words but being away from your notebook or typewriter. Hell is when the verses slip away through your fingers and they never return again.

R.M. Engelhardt

#36. You are FAR too fabulous to cling to someone or something that doesn't fit you, doesn't want you, or doesn't belong to you. While you're clinging to the WRONG thing, you're letting the RIGHT thing slip right through your fingers!

Mandy Hale

#37. I seem to hear thousands of voices
the voices of the common folk in the marketplace
urging me to go forward and do what must be done. More is at stake now than my life. On me turns the future of the warriors. Let's not quibble longer, lest this rare opportunity slip through my fingers.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#38. I let the happy times slip through my fingers and gripped on to the sad times as if they were my heart's desire

Charles Stross

#39. You took thoughts, choosing them out of your store, and then, not dwelling on them, you let them slip through the fingers of your mind, never clutching at them, never dwelling on them, no concentration ... just letting them drift gently past.

Agatha Christie

#40. If you get it right, it's the most grand thing you could ever do. So many people let biopics slip through their fingers, but the opportunity to play Eazy-E could change my life.

Jason Mitchell

#41. He does not start guiltily, as he should, but frowns in annoyance. "Who are you?"
I slip my hand through the slit of my overskirt, and my fingers close around the hard wood of the crossbow tiller. "Vengeance," I say softly.

R.L. LaFevers

#42. Her skin is soft and delicate, like granules of sand that I would thread between my fingers. However my fear in that like the sand, she'll slip through my fingers and all I'll have of her is this single moment.

M.L. Steinbrunn

#43. He rolled the other way and watched the digital display of his alarm ticking seconds off he'd never get back. This is the life we're given. One life. One opportunity to be happy, to make others happy, and I'm letting it slip through my fingers because I'm afraid.

Barbara Elsborg

#44. It was a mistake to not tell you how I felt. It's haunted me since the day I came home and found you gone. You'll never know how sorry I am for letting you slip through my fingers. But it won't happen again because I'm never letting you go. Ever

Georgia Cates