Slip Quotes

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. (Georges Duhamel)
The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Nature is a temple where living columns Let slip from time to time uncertain words; Man finds his way through forests of symbols Which regard him with familiar gazes. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Cry, 'Havoc and let slip the dogs of war. View quote
William Shakespeare
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place. View quote
Mark Twain
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out. View quote
Winston Churchill
Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together. View quote
Gerald Ford
Freedom is dangerous, Cory, but it's precious, too. You can't just throw it away or let it slip away. You can't sell it for bread and pottage. View quote
Octavia Butler
Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God slip quietly away. He had never really impinged upon my life, though I had done my best to enable him to do so. Now that I no longer felt so guilty and anxious about him, he became too remote to be a reality. View quote
Karen Armstrong
Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade. View quote
Ben Hecht
If you had one shot, one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted, one moment, would you capture it, or just let it slip. (Eminem)
These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe. View quote
Valerie Trierweiler
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. View quote
David Almond
I lead two totally separate lives. There are times when I have to slip into rock star mode. View quote
Martin Gore
That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone. View quote
Slick Rick
Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style. View quote
Alain de Botton
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds. View quote
William James
If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must first make a ball of yourself; that's where it is. View quote
George Eliot
If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today. View quote
Bruce Lee
My grandmother would shanghai pilots at the Havana airport so they'd bring me cartons of mango baby food -- the only kind I'd eat. I learned to eat peach later. And in every carton, she'd slip in a Cuban record. View quote
Gloria Estefan
Sometimes we get caught up in our troubles and our problems and we let life slip away, but life is precious, all of life, and one must try to take in as much of it as possible. (Yanni)
And sometimes when I am weary, When the path is thorny and Wild, I'll look back to the Eyes in the twilight, Back to the eyes that smiled. And pray that a wreath like a rainbow May slip from the beautiful past, And Crown me again with the sweet, strong love And keep me, and hold me fast. View quote
Voltairine de Cleyre
I will love you if you are stupid, if you slip and fall on your face, if you do the wrong thing, if you make mistakes, if you behave like a human being - I will love you no matter. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away. The condom, I mean. Not the stranger. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
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. View quote
Richie Sambora