Slips Quotes - Page 11

• I almost let the best thing that ever happened to me slip away because I was hung up on ideas of what I ‘should’ want. Sometimes there is no ‘should,’ there’s only a single chance to grab on to happiness.

  Nalini Singh

  Ideas, Want, Chance

  Nalini Singh (2011). “Kiss of Snow”, p.128, Penguin

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• Yo! Cam!” Beer Guy jumped off the porch and jogged down the sidewalk, passing me a quick look. “What you up to, man?” Saved by the frat boy. Cam’s gaze didn’t veer from me, but his grin started to slip. “Nothing, Kevin, just trying to have a conversation.

  J. Lynn

  Beer, Boys, Men

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• [...] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.

  Jim Morrison

  Risk, Fusion, Losing

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• Willie said normal was boring and that I should be grateful that I had a touch of spice. She said no one cared about boring people, and when they died, they were forgotten, like something that slips behind the dresser.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Grateful, People, Spices

  Ruta Sepetys (2013). “Out of The Easy”, p.33, Penguin

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• The only people out at this hour were ones who couldn't sleep,those haunted by one thing or another:love thwarted, love lost, love thrown away. They were the sort of people who didn't want to be noticed, who wanted to slip through shadows, be alone with their despair.

  Alice Hoffman

  Lost Love, Sleep, People

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• The tongue never slips – remember this always. What goes on within the mind comes invariably on the tongue.

  Rajneesh

  Mind, Goes On, Tongue

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• He has, like me, a sense of smell. I let him inhale me, then I slip away.

  Anais Nin

  Smell, Like Me, Inhale

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• It occurred to me that I was unhappy. And it didn’t feel so very terrible. No urgency, nothing. I could slip out of my life on a slow wave like this—it didn’t matter. I don’t have to be happy. All I have to do is hold on to something and wait.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Waiting, Unhappy, Matter

  Helen Oyeyemi (2011). “Mr Fox”, p.42, Pan Macmillan

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• People say that time slips through our fingers like sand. What they don't acknowledge is that some of the sand sticks to the skin. These are memories that will remain, memories of the time when there was still time left.

  David Levithan

  Life, Memories, People

  Andrea Cremer, David Levithan (2013). “Invisibility”, p.170, Penguin

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• ..."Are you okay?" he says, still looking at me, and I feel my smile slip, fade, and the silence that falls over us then is so total I can’t hear anything, not the rush-hiss of my heart pounding in my chest, not the sounds all around us; insects, wind, and the distant clatter of others’ lives in houses built close but not too close because when we look out our windows we all like to pretend that everything we see is ours. But Ryan is not mine.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Fall, Heart, Wind

  Elizabeth Scott (2010). “The Unwritten Rule”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Giving Up, Who I Am, Snakes

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.317, A&C Black

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• Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

  Pete Seeger

  Music, Song, Funny Things

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• I would always slip away to the cinema. I always found something absolutely extraordinary about the fact that these actors were always kind of kicking hard at some new dimension they were doing on film.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Kicking, Cinema, Actors

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• We did everything we could to win this game on a tricky pitch. We created a lot of opportunities but between the posts and Bonano, we failed to find the goal. We did well but we let a victory slip from our grasp. I still think we are carrying on where we left off last season and you saw a team that was working for 90 minutes. We showed off our talent but just couldn't get a goal.

  Frank Rijkaard

  Team, Opportunity, Thinking

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• It's a special club. It's got history. When I slip on the Manchester United shirt, it's like I'm wearing its past. So you have to sacrifice yourself for this club.

  Patrice Evra

  Sacrifice, Past, Special

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• All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.

  Walter de La Mare

  Cat, Doors, Long

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• You can want success all you want, but to get it, you can’t falter. You can’t slip. You can’t sleep. One eye open, for real, and forever.

  Jay-Z

  Real, Sleep, Eye

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• The secret to success can be found in people's daily agendas. If they do something intentional to grow every day, they move closer to reaching their potential. If they don't, their potential slowly slips away over the course of their lifetime.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Leadership, Moving

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.125, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• How many years have slipped through our hands?
At least as many as the constellations we still can identify.
The quarter moon, like a light skiff,
                                                         floats out of the mist-remnants
Of last night’s hard rain.
It, too, will slip through our fingers
                                                        with no ripple, without us in it.

  Charles Wright

  Rain, Moon, Night

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• Then what shall I write? I can't just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. I'll let my journal grow just like the mind does, just like a tree or beast does, just like life does. Why should a book tell a tale in a dull straight line? Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.

  David Almond

  Book, Writing, Cat

  David Almond (2013). “My Name is Mina”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline.

  Lew Wallace

  Wise, Discipline, Band

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur (Illustrated): Historical Novel - A Tale of the Christ”, p.256, e-artnow

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• There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he's held up by the others until he regains his footing.

  Phil McGraw

  Family, Climbing, Support

  Phil McGraw (2013). “Family First: Your Step-by-Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• I've got a folder full of rejection slips that I keep. Know why? Because those same editors are now calling my agent hoping I'll write a book or novella for them. Things change. A rejection slip today might mean a frantic call to your agent in six months.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Book, Writing, Mean

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• There’s this thing called progress. But it doesn’t progress. It doesn’t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away. It’s progress if you can stop the world slipping away. My humble model for progress I the reclamation of land. Which is repeatedly, never-ending retrieving what it lost. A dogged and vigilant business. A dull yet valuable business. A hard, inglorious business. But you shouldn’t go mistaking the reclamation of land for the building of empires.

  Graham Swift

  Humble, Land, Progress

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• Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep. It's always in the middle of the night, or you're half-awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is. Every time you try to put your finger on it, it slips away. You turn on the lights and the cockroaches run away. You can never grasp them...

  John Lennon

  Letting Go, Running, Song

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