Slips Quotes - Page 17

• You have to work ceaselessly on your end to digest and imbibe your opportunities or, I have come to believe, they will gradually slip away and knock on someone else's more receptive door.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Believe, Opportunity, Doors

  BookBrowse Interview, www.bookbrowse.com.

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• No one is more himself than the moment when he's laughing at a joke. It's at those moments that people's defenses go down, and that's when you can slip in a good idea.

  George Carlin

  Ideas, People, Laughing

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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• I love writing. I'm not particularly comfortable in the actual world - I'm much more comfortable on the page. So if I could have a life where I could just slip the pages under the door and somebody would slip me a meal back, then that would be perfect for me.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Writing, Doors, Perfect

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• How did we go - in a relatively short amount of time - from Audrey Hepburn to Kim Kardashian? I don't know how that happened. Like did we all collectively slip and hit our heads as a society? Why are we accepting garbage as nourishment? I don't know what's going on.

  Laura Benanti

  Garbage, Kim, Accepting

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I want my teammates to see that I'm following Christ. But, I'm also human, so there are times I slip and make mistakes but I know Christ forgives me.

  Torii Hunter

  Mistake, Following Christ, Forgive Me

  "Los Angeles Angels outfielder Torii Hunter on how his faith helps him set a good example". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. June 2011.

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• Cinderella's glass shoe was the perfect size.... so why did it slip off as she ran? It must have been to attract the attention of Prince Charming. I don't see any other explanation.

  Ai Yazawa

  Glasses, Shoes, Perfect

  "Nana". Manga by Ai Yazawa, 2000 - 2009.

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• I had a one day slip, Matt. So what do you do? You get up and you go on, and you try not to do it again.

  Liza Minnelli

  Trying, One Day, Goes On

  "Liza Minnelli describes best and worst of times". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.today.com. February 8, 2005.

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• It fortifies my soul to know That, though I perish, Truth is so: That, howsoe'er I stray and range, Whate'er I do, Thou dost not change. I steadier step when I recall That, if I slip Thou dost not fall.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Fall, Soul, Steps

  Arthur Hugh Clough (1874). “Poems: With a Memoir”, p.53

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• When we let our freedoms slip away without a fight or even without concern, we take freedom, prosperity and happiness away from our posterity. What kind of people do that? Are we such people? These are questions each of us must face.

  Oliver DeMille

  Fighting, People, Faces

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• The most beautiful moments always seemed to accelerate and slip beyond one's grasp just when you want to hold onto them for as long as possible.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Beautiful, Long, Want

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• I can find almost anything funny, thank God, so you search for the black, lacy slip that encases the corpse. You know, shift the angle. God may take away, but he often leaves you with a terrific opening line for the next adventure. I would suggest taking it. Move on; change the angle; look at it in a different way tomorrow.

  Tennessee Williams

  Moving, Adventure, Black

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• If I was feeling depressed or frustrated about my lot in life, all I had to do was tap the Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself on the relentless pixelated onslaught on the screen in front of me. There, inside the game's two-dimensional universe, life was simple: It's just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.

  Ernest Cline

  Moving, Simple, Player

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• A bag of bones can slip through small cracks in a crowd effortlessly.

  Kris Kidd

  Cracks, Bags, Crowds

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• The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.

  Ziggy Marley

  Past, Worry, Pondering

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• I'm built like a 14-year-old boy. I have no waist, so anything I wear has to have a lot of trickeration going on. I don't fit into girl dresses. I can't just slip it on.

  Julie Bowen

  Girl, Boys, Years

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• Many of us live our lives out of the fear of what other people think of us. We're waiting for someone to give us a permission slip that tells us it's OK to be ourselves. Don't try to be fearless or pretend you aren't impacted by fear. Just try to prevent fear from making your decisions for you.

  Chris Guillebeau

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• Where we might think of sin as slip-ups or missteps, God views sin as a godless attitude that leads to godless action.

  Max Lucado

  Attitude, Thinking, Views

  Max Lucado (2007). “Lucado 3-in-1: Traveling Light, Next Door Savior, Come Thirsty”, p.30, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I don't know how you feel, my brethren and sisters, but I'd rather be dead than to lose my liberty. I have no fear we'll ever lose it because of invasion from the outside. But I do have fear that it may slip away from us because of our own indifference, our own negligence, as citizens of this land. And so I plead with you this morning that you take an active interest in matters pertaining to the future of this country.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Country, Morning, Land

  Ezra Taft Benson (1960). “So shall ye reap: selected addresses”

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• Having all those demons makes it interesting, for me. Coming back now and being completely sober is okay, but I do like going back into the messy area. It's an empowering thing to play now, but at the same time, I do like to play the dirty side more. So, we'll see if she slips, or something. Wendy is always on the edge.

  Drea de Matteo

  Dirty, Play, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• Seize every opportunity you have to learn. Keep your eyes and ears wide open and seize life — don't let the moments slip through your fingers like a fistful of sand. Be your own teacher. Let life write your textbook.

  Richie Sambora

  Teacher, Writing, Eye

  Doctorate Award Speech at Kean University, New Jersey, 2004.

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• What if this young woman, who writes such bad poems, in competition with her husband, whose poems are equally bad, should stretch her remarkably long and well-made legs out before you, so that her skirt slips up to the tops of her stockings?

  Gilbert Sorrentino

  Husband, Writing, Long

  Gilbert Sorrentino (1971). “Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things”

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• When we’re unaware that we share the power to co-create reality with the universe itself, that power slips away from us, causing our dream to become a nightmare. We begin to feel we’re the victims of an unknown and frightening creation that we’re unable to influence, and events seem to control and trap us. The only way to end this dreadful reality is to awaken to the fact that it too is a dream—and then recognize our ability to write a better story, one that the universe will work with us to manifest.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Dream, Writing, Reality

  Alberto Villoldo (2010). “Courageous Dreaming: How Shamans Dream the World Into Being”, p.4, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You can change your tomorrow if you do something today. Few people understand how the way you live today impacts your tomorrow. Today is the only time we have within our grasp, yet many people let it slip through their fingers, recognizing neither its value nor potential. If we want to do something with our lives, then we must make today matter, because that's where tomorrow's success lies.

  John C. Maxwell

  Lying, Impact, People

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• Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.

  John Calvin

  Prayer, Memories, Hours In The Day

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Daniel 1- 6 (Annotated Edition)”, p.342, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Dramatic and emotional trading experiences tend to be negative. Pride is a great banana peel, as are hope, fear, and greed. My biggest slip-ups occurred shortly after I got emotionally involved with positions.

  Ed Seykota

  Pride, Emotional, Greed

  "Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders". Book by Jack D. Schwager, 1989.

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