Slides Quotes - Page 13

• People, like dogs, love repetition. Chasing a ball, lapping a course in a race car, sliding down a slide. Because as much as each incident is similar, so it is different.

  Garth Stein

  Dog, Race, People

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• I curl up, make myself smaller, try to disappear entirely. Wrapped in silence, I slide my bracelet that reads 'mentally disoriented' around and around my wrist.

  Suzanne Collins

  Silence, Trying, Curls

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.351, Scholastic Inc.

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• He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out.

  Ray Bradbury

  Long, Skins, Burning

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.5, Hamilton Books

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• The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.

  James Frey

  Thinking, Daze, Afternoon

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.51, Anchor

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• I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can't breathe.

  Veronica Roth

  Hands, Breathe, Fingers

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• Perhaps that was the point; life, if you did it right, meant learning and changing. If you didn't, you died- or stopped growing - which amounted to more or less the same thing. So I would slide in and out of different roles until I discovered the one that fit me best. -Deuce, (183)

  Ann Aguirre

  Different, Deuces, Roles

  Ann Aguirre (2012). “Outpost”, p.139, Macmillan

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• In the news this week, the polls continue to slide for Gordon Brown and some people are saying he's dead and buried. But I think the opposite - I say GORDON'S ALIVE!

  Brian Blessed

  Thinking, Opposites, People

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• United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs, and I got busy with films. I just kind of let it slide. Isn't that amazing?

  John Astin

  Song, Artist, Ideas

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• People say I don't have great tools. They say that I can't throw like Ellis Valentine or run like Tim Raines or hit with power like Mike Schmidt. Who can? I make up for it in other ways, by putting out a little bit more. That's my theory, to go through life hustling. In the big leagues, hustle usually means being in the right place at the right time. It means backing up a base. It means backing up your teammate. It means taking that headfirst slide. It means doing everything you can do to win a baseball game.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Running, Valentine

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• Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear up in shock and slide over into another channel. The human mind seems doomed to believe, as simply as a rooster believes, that where we are now is the only possibility

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Running, Memories, Believe

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• I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always consistent, where the images slide before one's eyes in a continual cascade of form and meaning.

  Ansel Adams

  Eye, Heaven, Temperature

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• Duane Allman inspired the group to explore the extended jam format that was already a staple of the Allman Brothers act. Moreover, his ferocious slide playing motivated Clapton to turn in some of the finest guitar performances of his career

  Bob Whitlock

  Music, Brother, Guitar

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• Very rarely do people make big compromises with their integrity. Almost every compromise is a small one that is easily justified. The downhill slide is usually a result of many little compromises.

  Dennis Prager

  Integrity, People, Littles

  Dennis Prager (1995). “Think a Second Time”, Harpercollins

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• Beware the lessons of a fighter pilot who would rather fly a slide rule than kick your ass!

  Ron McKeown

  Lessons, Pilots, Aviation

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• It’s the great temptation for small groups of people to slide into a state where they’re not quite telling each other the truth and they’re not quite celebrating each other. Instead, they tolerate each other, they accommodate each other, and they settle for sitting on the unspoken matters that separate them.

  Bill Hybels

  People, Temptation, Groups

  Bill Hybels (2008). “Axiom: Powerful Leadership Proverbs”, p.132, Zondervan

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• Eighteen thousand miles from the moon is some slide, but I'll get up there again some way!

  Winsor McCay

  Moon, Way, Get Up

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• Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vulgarity latent in every decision. However grave the matter at hand might be, if one neglected it for long enough, the act of neglect itself would begin to affect the situation, and someone else would emerge as an ally. Such was Count Ayakura's version of political theory.

  Yukio Mishima

  Sweet, Hands, Long

  Yukio Mishima (1990). “Spring Snow”, Vintage

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• We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are.

  Neil Strauss

  Mean, Years, Twelve

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.166, Canongate Books

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• An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.

  Edwin Meese

  Home, Responsibility, Giving

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• I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Dolphins, Definitions, Corporations

  Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.305, Serpent's Tail

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• When I present or speak, I write the slides myself. And regarding time, I would like to be able to publish more than I do.

  Padmasree Warrior

  Writing, Able, Speak

  "Motorola CTO Padmasree Warrior". Interview with Roland Piquepaille, www.zdnet.com. June 19, 2007.

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• Narrator: You had to give it to him: he had a plan. And it started to make sense, in a Tyler sort of way. No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life, Giving, Narrators

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• They say that God lives very high! But if you look above the pines You cannot see our God. And why? And if you dig down in the mines You never see Him in the gold, Though from Him all that's glory shines. God is so good, He wears a fold Of heaven and earth across His face - Like secrets kept, for love, untold. But still I feel that His embrace Slides down by thrills, through all things made, Through sight and sound of every place: As if my tender brother laid On my shut lids, her kisses' pressure, Half waking me at night; and said, "Who kissed through the dark, dear guesser?"

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Life, Brother, Dark

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1870). “Poems of the Intellect and the Affections”, p.64

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• But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.

  John Dryden

  Love, Ambition, Ice

  John Dryden (1873). “Poetical Works: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.53

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• We had a dog who was named Pushinka, who was given to my father by a Soviet official. And we trained that dog to slide down the slide we had in the back of the White House. Sliding the dog down that slide is probably my first memory.

  John F. Kennedy

  Dog, Memories, Father

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