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Beauty is certainly a soft, smooth, slippery thing, and therefore of a nature which easily slips in and permeates our souls. — Plato

One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty. — William Shakespeare

Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join others and push ... You live, you help. — Ram Dass

Dad's pink slips come in the form of bullets to the brain — J.M. Darhower

There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life
real life
seems to exist at one remove. — Jojo Moyes

The march of good fortune has backward slips: to retreat one or two paces gives wings to the jumper. — Saib Tabrizi

TIME
Time
And how it slips through my fingers
Without putting its ring on them,
And I remain simply its lover — Visar Zhiti

Why don't I just step out and slip into something more spectacular? — Liberace

People are bewitched into believing that time slips away, and this belief is the basis of time actually slipping away. — Raoul Vaneigem

A man's life breath cannot come back again
no raiders in force, no trading brings it back,
once it slips through a man's clenched teeth. — Homer

One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark — Franz Kafka

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

Girl listens to radio. Girl finds music. Girl has whole other world.

Girl slips on headphones. World gone. — Kathleen Glasgow

Trust is like sand, one lie and it slips away. — Saru Singhal

Art makes you reinvent the wheel with regularity. If you don't, art gets bored and slips away. — Walter Darby Bannard

Because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie. — Alan Paton

A person who Sleeps more, Slips More. — Lalit Sharma

My insides turn outward in acknowledgement of your absence. My heart slips out of my chest and down into my gut. — Coco J. Ginger

Times like this, when she slips her hand into mine and holds on tight, and our husband becomes just a shadow in the doorway. — Lauren DeStefano

We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day. — Barbara Johnson

I love my rejection slips. They show me I try. — Sylvia Plath

Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand. — Bodie Thoene

While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out at the back. — Horace

There's many a slip twixt the blueprints and a new house. — Kin Hubbard

Thanks,' I say, and the cloak of being fine that I wear with everyone else slips right off my shoulders. — Jandy Nelson

Heaven's net is very vast. It is sparsely meshed, yet nothing slips through. — Laozi

From a mass of conclusions men often come to wavering and doubt; and who knows not how easily the mind slips from doubt to error? — Pope Leo XIII

life slips out of hands, just like handful sand;does not matter how hard you press to protect it will anyhow flow out the hands. — Deepika Chamoli

Hee stands not surely, that never slips. — George Herbert

God's hand never slips. — Billy Graham

Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The desert is full of things you can't hold on to - light and heat and sand that slips through your fingers like friendships you once had. — Al Riske

Better the feet slip then the tongue. — George Herbert

God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips, acts with a hand that never fails — Charles Spurgeon

Everything becomes questionable as soon as I consider it closely, everything slips away and dissolves. — Hermann Hesse

But high up on the mountain When the wind is hitting it If you're watching very closely The rock slips a little bit ... — Harry Chapin

Time slips by; our sorrows do not turn into poems,
And what is invisible stays that way. — Mark Strand

The words in this book are all phooey. When you say them, your lips will make slips and back flips and your tongue may end up in Saint Looey! — Dr. Seuss

He takes a few dazed steps, the waiters turn out the lights and he slips into unconsciousness: when this man is lonely he sleeps. — Jean-Paul Sartre

I'm in love with fiction. A fantasy that slips between my fingers when reality sets in. — Moryah DeMott

Surrounding us is an ocean of mess and misunderstanding, full of pirates and sharks just waiting to see who slips in first — Sarah Ockler

Thanking people is dangerous business. A name always slips your mind. — John Wayne

Ingrateful man with liquorish draughts, and morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind that from it all consideration slips. — William Shakespeare

Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it]. — Publilius Syrus

No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them. — Jack L. Chalker

By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips. — Laurell K. Hamilton

For, indeed, nothing is more fugitive than the heart, which deserts us as often as it slips away through bad thoughts. — Gregory The Great

Fate rules, Eve. You follow the steps, and you plan and you work, then fate slips in laughting and makes fools of us — J.D. Robb

And so castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually.. — Jimi Hendrix

Quiet, by its nature, slips away unnoticed. But once it's gone, we notice. — Susan Marsh

The smallest issues can become the most important things in life and reality slips away. — David Millar

If his IQ slips any lower, we'll have to water him twice a day — Molly Ivins

The comprehensible slips away, is transformed; instead of possession one learns connection. — Rainer Maria Rilke

The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them. — Louis XIV

And to my lips' Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn ... — D.H. Lawrence

You know how when you're reminded of things, and you can't shut it off quick
enough? Like, before it slips the knife in and twists? Like that. — Lili St. Crow

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long. — Louise Brown

I spend my life wrestling my own mind over so many things. I chose to be noble even if it slips from my grasp at times — K. Farrell St. Germain

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow. — Henrik Ibsen

It is sometimes best to slip over thoughts and not go to the bottom of them. — Marie De Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise De Sevigne

When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back. — Charles Krauthammer

I wrote for free for, like, fifteen years; I could redo my parlor in rejection slips. It would be surprisingly tasteful - they use nice paper. — MaryJanice Davidson

Sometimes while you wait for what you think is better," Philomene said, "what is good enough slips away. — Lalita Tademy

The town does not exist
except where one black-haired tree slips
up like a drowned woman into the hot sky. — Anne Sexton

Excuse me while I slip into something more comfortable. — Harry Behn

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box. — James Lee Burke

I believe truly that Satan cannot endure it and so slips out of the room - more or less - when there is a true song. — Amy Carmichael

You follow the steps, and you plan and you work, then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can trick it or outguess it, — J.D. Robb

My hand slips into his as though it remembers his touch and we've held hands often in a previous life. — Padma Venkatraman

Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The night air slips into my lungs, and I feel like it is one of my first breaths. — Veronica Roth

A SOFT fall rain slips down through the trees and the smell of ocean is so strong that it can almost be licked off the air. — Sebastian Junger

I love when God slips in and takes care of things without our knowledge at the moment. — Amanda Penland

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

There's many a slip between the cup and the lip. — Aristotle.

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

Original sin reassures us that our slip was not the first. — Mason Cooley

Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again. — Robin Sharma

Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive. — Don Marquis

Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls. — Louisa May Alcott

In an era when man can no longer dash out of his cave and slay a mammoth, he simply slips on his Lycra and goes for a run. — Phil Hewitt

Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out. — Laozi

Sometimes love is worth fighting for. And if you don't fight for it, then it slips through your fingers. — Chanda Hahn

Your career has but one goal: To ensure your book of life is more than an anthology of salary slips. — Gyan Nagpal

Let no day slip over without some comfort received of the Word of God. — John Knox

The light of an early Summer afternoon as it slips toward dusk has so many good things wrapped up in it.. — Brandi L. Bates

Time slips. Days pass. Years fade. Life ends. And what we came to do on earth must be done while there is time! — Milan Jed

Chin up princess, or the crown slips. — Unknown

Whatever comes easily to us we turn away from, but that which slips away from us we will pursue to the ends of the earth. — Dee Brown

America is a living body, the highways are its arteries, and the True Knot slips along them like a silent virus. — Stephen King

Everything changes. The more I try to hold on to the moment, the more it slips through my fingers. — Dani Shapiro

Every time you slip, you owe me a kiss. — Lori Foster

Mine! There isn't any such thing as mine. The world slips slithering through my fingers. — Nancy Hale

My 20s were a blizzard of rejection slips. — MaryJanice Davidson

One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. Remember me then. I wish you luck. — Sergei Lukyanenko

Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away. — Philip Yancey

Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world. — Karen Maitland

It can be said that one slip of point of view by a writer can hurt a story badly, and several slips can be fatal.' Stein on Writing — Sol Stein

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief. — Holly Black