Slips Quotes - Page 20

• It's like one of those dreams that changes you. You keep some of the dream forever, and you know things down deep inside yourself, because it happened to you, but when you go looking for details they kind of just slip out of your head.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Forever, Details

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• Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Thinking, Creating

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.228, Penguin

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• And this is the truth. Because I may be only eighteen, but it already seems pretty obvious that the world is divided into two groups: the doers and the watchers. The people things happen to and the rest of us, who just sort of plod on with things. The Lulus and the Allysons. It never occurred to me that by pretending to be Lulu, I might slip into that other column, even for just a day.

  Gayle Forman

  Two, People, Groups

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.31, Penguin

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• It is not true that fate slips silently into our lives. It steps in through the door that we have opened, and we invite it to enter. No one is strong enough or cunning enough to avert by word or deed the misfortune that is rooted in the iron laws of his character and his life.

  Sándor Márai

  Strong, Character, Fate

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• I kept my arms around Joi and my face buried deep in her hair while I waited for Peter Pan to slip through the window. I thought I needed him to tell me what I should do. But he never showed up. He left me alone with a girl who smelled of jasmine and cocoa butter. And before I fell asleep, I finally realized that was more than enough.

  Kirsten Miller

  Girl, Hair, Jasmine

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• Whole scenes of your life slip away forever if you don't put them down in ink.

  Silas House

  Forever, Ink, Scene

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• Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don't need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don't need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.

  Paul Simon

  Song, Keys, Needs

  Song: 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover

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• Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed, that you slip not into the manner of the vulgar (the uninstructed).

  Epictetus

  Ignorant, Attention, Stranger

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• Within seconds thoughts become words that slip off our tongue and into the world. Pausing before we speak may seem cumbersome, but it allows us to decide: Is this helpful? Does this need to be said now? What is the best way to say this?

  David Jeremiah

  Wisdom, Doe, Needs

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• He slips . . . but manages to regroup himself.

  Dan Maskell

  Tennis, Manage

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• What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Generations, Wells

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• You just can't beat slip covers for giving that friendly air hospitals need so desperately.

  Dorothy Draper

  Air, Giving, Design

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• Sometimes all you need in love is to make each other happy, to make each other laugh. So long as you can still do that ten years down the line then I think you're gold. Never let the laughter slip from your relationship.

  Maya Angelou

  Laughter, Romantic Love, Love Is

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• Understand, I'll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I'll pursue solitary pathways through the pale twilit meadows with only this one dream: You come too.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Dream, Stars, Reading

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• God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.

  Saint Augustine

  Hope, Support, Should

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• God's hand never slips. He never makes a mistake. His every move is for our own good and for our ultimate good.

  Billy Graham

  God, Religious, Mistake

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Jan 12, 2014

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• Clearly, there are a thousand and one scenarios for how someone can slip through the cracks. I'll walk down the street and see a homeless person, and I'll want to stop them and say, How did this happen? Where's your mother? Are you physically ill? Mentally ill?

  William Baldwin

  Mother, Cracks, Want

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• Let us not glide through this world and then slip quietly into heaven, without having blown the trumpet loud and long for our Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Let us see to it that the devil will hold a thanksgiving service in hell, when he gets the news of our departure from the field of battle.

  Charles Studd

  Jesus, Long, Heaven

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• Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

  George Sand

  Heaven, Earth, Refuge

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• You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day you're going to autograph them and sell them at auction.

  James Lee Burke

  Writing, Rejection, One Day

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• I walked a thousand miles just to slip this skin.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Sadness, Skins, Miles

  Song: Streets Of Philadelphia

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• At all periods of the [English] language it is difficult to assign a beginning date to most new words and meanings. They tend to slip into the language silently, and are placed in date order only when scholars subsequently get to work.

  Robert Burchfield

  Order, Language, Periods

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• We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Unity, Together, Backwards

  Address Upon Taking the Oath of the U.S. Presidency, delivered 9 August 1974 East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• I met my wife on a ferry boat, and when we landed she gave me the slip

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Wife, Boat

  Groucho Marx (2000). “The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and about Groucho Marx”, Vintage

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• Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies

  Emily Dickinson

  Laughing

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.171, Harvard University Press

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