Time Is Slipping Away Quotes

#1. Time is standing still, but we are running away from it and complaining that time is slipping away from us.

Debasish Mridha

#2. The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.

David Whyte

#3. But time was slipping away; in another minute it would be too late; and urgency acted not as a spur but as a creeping paralysis which clogged the mind, and weighted the tongue, and imposed on desperation a blanket of numb stupidity.

Georgette Heyer

#4. The only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be.

Pearl S. Buck

#5. whose dark and icy depths were starting to seem as distant as the moon. Just as it had before he faced the Horntail, time was slipping away as

J.K. Rowling

#6. The philosopher may sometimes love the infinite; the poet always loves the finite. For him the great moment is not the creation of light, but the creation of the sun and moon.

G.K. Chesterton

#7. What is destiny more than an end result? If there is such thing as destiny it must change. With every thought we think, every word we utter, every choice we make our destiny adjusts to fit the consequences of that choice.

Eve S. Nicholson

#8. Like she knows what's inside of me, what makes me.... me.

Bridget Essex

#9. Lying on top of a building, the clouds looked no nearer than when I was lying on the street.

Liam Gillick

#10. 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

#11. Freedom of the press and also of speech, assembly, and worship can persist as social forms and legal guarantees, while at the same time their functional realities can be gradually slipping away.

Marshall Field

#12. Just as it had before he faced the Horntail, time was slipping away as though somebody had bewitched the clocks to go extra-fast.

J.K. Rowling

#13. Time did a funny thing after, some days slipping away without notice while others stretched on endlessly.

Jen Nadol

#14. Having spent all that time getting away from South Africa, running away from the army, I wanted very much to believe that America and England were actually as free as they were meant to be, not slipping rapidly into becoming police states like the one I'd just left.

Richard Stanley

#15. I kept wondering then - I'm still wondering now - if there was a time when she realizes that something was going wrong. Inside her, I mean. when she could feel herself slipping away, something new creeping in. If she could have stopped it, or if it just... happened.

Nina LaCour

#16. People are bewitched into believing that time slips away, and this belief is the basis of time actually slipping away.

Raoul Vaneigem

#17. It ratified a theory of mine that great writing could sneak up on you, master of a thousand disguises: prodigal kinsman, messenger boy, class clown, commander of artillery, altar boy, lace maker, exiled king, peacemaker, or moon goddess.

Pat Conroy

#18. Great art stretches the taste, it doesn't follow tastes.

Steve Jobs

#19. She left the porch pelting her back with unasked questions. They hoped the answers were cruel and strange.

Zora Neale Hurston

#20. One more time? For the audience? he says. His voice isn't angry. It's hollow, which is worse. Already the boy with the bread is slipping away from me.
I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.

Suzanne Collins

#21. With ardent sadness he contemplated the scene of his death for a long time, endlessly revising it like a work of art and surrounding it with images of this world, images that still imbued his thoughts, but that, already slipping away from him in his gradual departure, became vague and beautiful.

Marcel Proust

#22. A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity.

Voltaire

#23. Some people drift through their entire life. They do it one day at a time, one week at a time, one month at a time. It happens so gradually they are unaware of how their lives are slipping away until it's too late.

Mary Kay Ash

#24. If freedom were not so economically efficient it certainly wouldn't stand a chance.

Milton Friedman

#25. Good training is priceless.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. Less frightening, but no less disgusting, is the Iranian taste for jam made out of carrots.

Paul Theroux

#27. It seemed to him that nothing would ever be explained, and that all of a sudden each day was slipping away, that time was flying by and they were getting old and nothing would ever come clear.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#28. He could feel the only woman he had ever wanted slipping away for the third time, and he knew that this time, the pain of losing her would annihilate her.

Laura Lee Guhrke

#29. I was aware of the time slipping away so quickly and I was hideously afraid that I would never have another chance to be with him like this again- openly, the Walls between us gone for once. His words hinted at an end, and I recoiled from the idea. I couldn't waste one minute I had with him.

Stephenie Meyer