Slips Quotes - Page 15

• Tis often seen
  Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds
  A native slip to us from foreign lands.

  William Shakespeare

  Land, Choices, Adoption

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.234

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• That is the fearful part of having been near death. One knows how easy it is to die. The barriers that are up for everybody else are down for you, and you've only to slip through.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Easy, Near Death, Fearful

  Katherine Mansfield (1974). “The Letters of Katherine Mansfield”

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• Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

  Bill Vaughan

  Maturity, Psychological, Permission

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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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• The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.

  C. S. Lewis

  Differences, Infinite, Away From You

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is a door. It opens. Then it is closed. But a slip of light stays, like a scrap of unreadable paper left on the floor, or the one red leaf the snow releases in March

  Jane Hirshfield

  Light, Doors, Snow

  Jane Hirshfield (1997). “The lives of the heart”, Perennial

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• It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How
  else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?

  Vita Sackville-West

  Writing, Butterfly, Moments

  Vita Sackville-West (2015). “Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings”, Macmillan

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• Always reach for the moon cuz if u slip up u will still be a star!! #Jeah

  Ryan Lochte

  Stars, Moon, Cuz

  Twitter post from Jul 31, 2012

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• The charm of Ronald Reagan is not just that he kept telling us screwy things, it was that he believed them all. No wonder we trusted him, he never lied to us. ... His stubbornness, even defiance, in the face of facts ('stupid things,' he once called them in a memorable slip) was nothing short of splendid. ... This is the man who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency.

  Molly Ivins

  Stupid, Memorable, Ignorance

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.104, Vintage

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• But if there is such a thing as social commitment in literature, I think it must manifest itself in a reader's awareness of the human condition, in the writer's touching some common nerve ending. I think this kind of social commitment, like a lady's slip, should be there but it must not show.

  Bel Kaufman

  Commitment, Thinking, Touching

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• When you see persons slip down on the ice, do not laugh at them. ... It is more feminine on witnessing such a sight, to utter an involuntary scream than a shout of laughter.

  Eliza Leslie

  Laughter, Sight, Ice

  Eliza Leslie (2016). “The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners”, p.25, Summersdale Publishers LTD - ROW

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• Mystery fiction is, after all, a substitute for tranquilizers, strong drink, and bad, if diverting, companions. One slips into bed ... onto the train ... into the chair in the sickroom ... and is suddenly transported to a place where light fights dark and wins. When the story's over, one is left without a hangover, without remorse. Can any other opiate make that claim?

  Mary Cantwell

  Strong, Hangover, Dark

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• Some people perceive me as an assassin or at least someone who can slip under your guard with a knife. But if you watch what I do, that's almost never the case. I'm just trying to keep the balloon in the air. It rarely turns into anything combative.

  Stephen Colbert

  Air, Knives, People

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.playboy.com. October 16, 2012.

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• The spring in Boston is like being in love: bad days slip in among the good ones, and the whole world is at a standstill, then the sun shines, the tears dry up, and we forget that yesterday was stormy.

  Louise Closser Hale

  Spring, Bad Day, Being In Love

  Louise Closser Hale (1912). “Her Soul and Her Body”

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• Here's a simple way to abolish golf's elitist and exclusionary image and make it a truly all-American sport: ditch that fifties-Republican-martini-drinker's green Brooks Brothers-style sport jacket and make the winner of the Masters slip on something in, say, black leather with plenty of metal studs.

  Bruce McCall

  Sports, Brother, Golf

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• I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots of trees until the giants came foundering down. I have watched shores slip and perish, the channels silt and change; what was beach become a swamp and a headland tumble into the sea. An island has eroded in silent pain since my boyhood, and reefs have become islands. Yet the old people used to say, People pass away, but not the land. It remains forever. Maybe that is so. The land changes. The land continues. The sea changes. The sea remains.

  Keri Hulme

  Beach, Pain, Islands

  Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.336, LSU Press

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• Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles, patient explanations of the obvious, fleeting allusions to the unthinkable. As a preliminary, the conversationalist must gauge the mood, the intelligence and the verbal facility of the company. To this end, a few words of pedantic exposition often prove invaluable.

  Jack Vance

  Challenges, Deception, Fleeting

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• The law of love and compassion for all living creatures is again a doctrine to which we are all too ready to pay slip service. However, if it is to become a reality, it requires a process of education, a veritable mental renaissance. Once it has become a reality, national as well as international problems will fall into perspectives and become easier to solve. Wars and conflicts, too, will then become a thing of the past, because wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

  U Thant

  War, Fall, Men

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• Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again.

  Robin Sharma

  Hands, Return, Sand

  Robin Sharma (2003). “Leadership Wisdom From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”, p.95, Jaico Publishing House

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• Novel-writing can be a cold-blooded business. One uses whatever happens to be lying around in memory and employs it to suit one’s end….Then, again, during the months whilst one is writing about the past, a story is colored by what presently is happening to its writer. So, imperceptibly, the tone of voice changes, original intentions slip away. And I found myself looking through another window at a darker landscape inhabited by neither the present nor the past.

  J. L. Carr

  Memories, Lying, Writing

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• Whatever can be threatened, whatever can be shaken, whatever you fear cannot stand, is destined to crash. Do not go down with the ship. Let that which is destined to become the past slip away. Believe that the real you is that which beckons from the future. If it is a sadder you, it will be a wiser one. And dawn will follow the darkness sooner or later. Rebirth can never come without death.

  Robert M. Price

  Real, Believe, Past

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• I cling to my anger with every ounce of humanity left in my ruined body, but it's no use. It slips away, like a wave from shore. I am pondering this sad fact when I realize the blackness of sleep is circling my head. It's been there awhile, biding it's time and growing closer with each revolution. I give up on rage, which at this point has become a formality, and make a mental note to get angry again in the morning. Then I let myself drift, because there's really no fighting it.

  Sara Gruen

  Morning, Giving Up, Sleep

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• The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.

  Jeff Bingaman

  Country, Usa, United States

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