Slipping Quotes

• If you slip, it doesn't mean you're less valuable. It simply means that you have something to learn from slipping.

  Wayne Dyer

  Mean, Valuable, Slips

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.61, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

  Maria Callas

  Peace, Enemy, Criticism

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• Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Business, Opportunity

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Napoleon Hill Collection”, p.13, Penguin

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• The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.

  William Golding

  World, Lord, Piggy

  William Golding (2013). “Lord of the Flies : Text , Criticism , Giossary and Notes”, p.105, Al Manhal

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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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• Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tide.

  Garth Brooks

  Inspirational, Sky, Chance

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• A feeling of discouragement when you slip up is a sure sign that you put your faith in deeds

  Ahmad ibn Ajiba

  Faith, Wisdom, Religious

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• For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers.

  Albert Camus

  Self, Water, Trying

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.19, Vintage

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• You shouldn't be looking for people slipping up, you should be looking for all the good things people do and praising those.

  Richard Branson

  Inspiration, People, Praise

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• Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.

  Nat King Cole

  Emotional, Mind, Musician

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• My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

  John Wooden

  Memories, Going Away, Hearing

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• 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.

  William James

  Fear, Past, History

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• Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

  A. A. Milne

  Life, Meaningful, Native American

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• A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

  George D. Prentice

  Witty, Kindness, Broken

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• No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.

  Buenaventura Durruti

  Fighting, Government, Hands

  The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936.

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• Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.

  Michael Caine

  Careers, Awards, Firsts

  "Success? I never expected it, says Caine" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 1999.

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• Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Fate, Boxing, Unseen

  P. G. Wodehouse, Donald R. Bensen (1985). “A Wodehouse Bestiary”, p.262, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Soul, World, Way

  1919 Captain Shotover. Heartbreak House, act 2.

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• Since I was forty and definitely slipping, I have won seven full marathons, got second six times, and third four times.... I'm wondering what I can do after I'm fifty.

  Clarence DeMar

  Endurance, Four, Fifty

  Clarence DeMar (2016). “Marathon: Autobiography of Clarence Demar- America's Grandfather of Running”, p.143, BookBaby

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• Jesus made it possible for us to have the peace that passes all understanding-the kind that carries us, stabilizes us, grounds us, and keeps us from slipping.

  Stormie Omartian

  Jesus, Understanding, Kind

  Stormie Omartian (2013). “The 7-Day Prayer Warrior Experience (Free One-Week Devotional)”, p.4, Harvest House Publishers

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• How about slipping out of those wet things and into a dry Martini?

  Noel Coward

  Food, Cooking, Dry

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• I'm gonna ask you one more time, will you or will you not go out with me? I think my hand's slipping.

  Noah

  Notebook, Thinking, Hands

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• I didn’t fall in love with James. Falling sounds like an accident. Falling hurts. I’d fallen in love with Michael, fallen hard like slipping off a cliff and hitting the rocks below. Falling in love was something I’d vowed never to do again. I chose to love James.

  Megan Hart

  Falling In Love, Hurt, Rocks

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• The most remarkable thing about him were his eyes. They were laughing eyes, at once both joyous and tender: they were the radiant pale blue of a sky slipping toward evening in Heaven, when angels who had been sweet all day found themselves tempted to sin.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sweet, Eye, Angel

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• The night that seemed endless hours before is now slipping through your fingers, ticking by as it falls into the past and pushes you towards the future.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Fall, Past, Night

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