Slips Quotes - Page 7

• Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.

  Laozi

  Thinking, Form

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• It is (to describe it figuratively) as if an author were to make a slip of the pen, and as if this clerical error became conscious of being such. Perhaps this was no error but in a far higher sense was an essential part of the whole exposition. It is, then, as if this clerical error were to revolt against the author, out of hatred for him, were to forbid him to correct it, and were to say, "No, I will not be erased, I will stand as a witness against thee, that thou art a very poor writer."

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Art, Errors, Hatred

  Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “The Wisdom of Kierkegaard”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes while you wait for what you think is better, Philomene said, what is good enough slips away.

  Lalita Tademy

  Life, Thinking, Waiting

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• God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips, acts with a hand that never fails

  Charles Spurgeon

  Writing, Hands, Tongue

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2016). “Treasury of David”, p.1111, Bible Study Steps

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• Oh, dear friend, if you love your children, I charge you, do not let the early impression of a habit of prayer slip by. If you train your children to do anything, train them, at least, to have a habit of prayer.

  J. C. Ryle

  Prayer, Children, Love You

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• I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.

  John Dryden

  Women, Wrinkles, Twenties

  'The Maiden Queen' (1668) act 3, sc. 1

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• Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save for that very glibness.

  Virginia Woolf

  Thinking, Design, Half

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3037, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Girl, Fall, Thinking

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• Life can be wonderful. Do your best not to miss it!” Enjoy what it is before it isn't anymore. Dare to slip on a pair of bunny slippers once in a while! Surprise yourself! Enjoy the little things because one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things!

  Barbara Johnson

  Missing, One Day, Looks

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.219, Zondervan

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• Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.

  Alain de Botton

  Eels, Style, Mind

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, Chapter III, Consolation For Frustration, 2000.

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• A woman's body is a dark and monstrous mystery; between her supple thighs a heavy whirlpool swirls, two rivers crash, and woe to him who slips and falls!

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Fall, Dark, Two

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1958). “the Odyssey a Modern Sequel”

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• Take risks! That is really what life is about. We must pursue our own happiness. Nobody has ever lived our lives; ther are no guidelines. Trust your instincts. Accept nothing but the best. But then also look for it carefully. Don't allow it to slip between your fingers. Sometimes, good things come to us in a such a quiet fashion. And nothing comes complete. It is what we make of whatever we encounter that determines the outcome. What we choose to see, what we choose to save. And what we choose to remember. Never foget that all the love in your life is there, inside you, always.

  Linda Olsson

  Fashion, Risk, Encounters

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• I was a smoker for years. Occasionally I slip and have a cigarette. Remarkably, my voice has held up. I'm grateful, obviously. But I don't gargle with honey and ground-up bird eggs. I have no secrets.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Grateful, Years, Eggs

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• Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Evil, Soul, Liberty

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Here is what I'm trying to tell you: Adult isn't a noun, it's a verb. It's the act of making correctly those small decisions that fill our day. It is one that you can practice, and that can be done in concrete steps. And if you slip up and have Diet Coke for breakfast, no one busts in and snatches away your Adult card. Just move forward and have milk tomorrow.

  Kelly Williams Brown

  Moving, Practice, Decision

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• We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.

  Haile Selassie

  Past, Mold, Events

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• Gratitude opens your heart, and opening your heart is a wonderful and easy way for God to slip in.

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  Ram Dass

  Gratitude, Heart, Way

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• If I slip into the place that can be filled by Christ alone, making myself the first necessity to a soul instead of leading it to fasten upon Him, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

  Amy Carmichael

  Soul, Firsts, Christ

  Amy Carmichael (2003). “If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?”, p.47, CLC Publications

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• Nothing in the outer world makes you feel any way. You decide what you want to feel, and then use outer people and events as permission slips to execute your feeling agenda.

  Alan Cohen

  People, Feelings, Events

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• Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.

  Harold Pinter

  Hands, Sometimes, Moments

  Harold Pinter (2009). “Various Voices: Sixty Years of Prose, Poetry, Politics, 1948-2008”

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• Religions are vague, of course. This means that they are easy to follow -you can interpret their prescriptions as you like. but it also means that it is easy to slip up -there is always some injunction you are violating. But Islam has no religious establishment - no popes, no bishops - that can declare by fiat which is the correct interpretation. As a result, the decision to oppose the state on the grounds that is insufficiently Islamic belongs to anyone who wishes to exercise it.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Religious, Islamic, Mean

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• Alan Watts, the Buddhist scholar, proposed the existence of a mental faculty he called forgettory, which is the flip side of memory. There are times, Watts maintained, when we need to forget things, to let them slip away into the unremembered past.

  Larry Dossey

  Buddhist, Memories, Past

  Larry Dossey (2007). “The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things: Fourteen Natural Steps to Health and Happiness”, p.31, Harmony

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• 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

  Gratitude, Giving, Finding Happiness

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• Let no day slip over without some comfort received from the mouth of God.

  John Knox

  Comfort, Word Of God

  "Writings of the Rev. John Knox: Minister of God's Word in Scotland".

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• Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts, the life just slips away from them.

  Joseph Campbell

  Art, Culture, Alive

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.72, Anchor

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