Slip Quotes - page 2

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it! (Davy Crockett)
Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped. View quote
Jane Austen
My back is so scar-tissued that you couldn't find a place to slip a knife. View quote
David Lange
Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal. View quote
Terence McKenna
Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan Don't need to be coy, Roy, just listen to me Hop on the bus, Gus, don't need to discuss much Just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free. View quote
Paul Simon
He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush. View quote
Plutarch
From a spinner's perspective, in India it was never easy for me to judge where to stand: how far forward, how far back, because on Indian wickets the ball does not carry as much as abroad. That is true of slip fielding in general. I wouldn't say only for spinner – even for a fast bowler, that holds true. View quote
Rahul Dravid
All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused. View quote
Martha Graham
Judas had given them the slip. (Matthew Henry)
Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger. View quote
William Shakespeare
I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that. View quote
Toni Morrison
He says every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind if you want to see it. View quote
Mark Twain
The coming years will prove increasingly cynical and cruel. People will definitely not slip into oblivion while hugging each other. The final stages in the life of humanity will be marked by the monstrous war of all against all: the amount of suffering will be maximal. View quote
Pentti Linkola
When we read or hear how some professed Christian has turned defaulter, or lapsed into drunkenness, or slipped from the communion table into open disgrace, it simply means than a human arm has broken. The man has forsaken the everlasting arms. View quote
Theodore L. Cuyler
During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone ‘identified' me. Then a woman with lips blue with cold who was standing behind me, and of course had never heard of my name, came out of the numbness which affected us all and whispered in my ear-(we all spoke in whispers there): ‘Could you describe this?' I said, ‘I can!' Then something resembling a smile slipped over what had once been her face. View quote
Anna Akhmatova
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
We will never forget them nor the last time we saw them this morning as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God.' View quote
Ronald Reagan
Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds. View quote
Regina Brett
A guy in Greek armor drew his sword and charged, but slipped in a puddle of pina colada. (Rick Riordan)
Annabeth's hand slipped into mine. Under different circumstances I would've been embarrassed, but here in the dark I was glad to know where she was. It was about the only thing I was sure of. View quote
Rick Riordan
One word can give someone the strengththey needed at the moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburstcould be that tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge of destruction. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Have this faith that someone is there to take away your weaknesses. Ok, you slipped once, twice, thrice. It does not matter. Keep moving ahead. People take vows never to commit mistakes again. Breaking the vows makes it worse. Surrendering is better. View quote
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute. View quote
Eartha Kitt