Slips Quotes - Page 24

• Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way around them.

  Isaac Asimov

  Writing, Rejection, Soul

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• There were a couple of times I wondered whether I was going to get a pink slip.

  Mitt Romney

  Couple, Stupid, People

  "Romney Stumbles While Speaking In N.H". 'All Things Considered' with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. January 9, 2012.

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• If a ballplayer is satisfied, he's going to slip. You have to keep fighting to improve.

  Nellie Fox

  Baseball, Fighting, Satisfied

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• When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when you slip up and return to old, self-defeating habits, recognize the signs that you're out of harmony with intention.

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Motivational, Self

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• Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death.

  Horace

  Latin, Wrinkles, Years

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• You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.

  Leonard Cohen

  Emotional, Masterpiece, Loses

  Song: A Thousand Kisses Deep, Album: Ten New Songs, 2001

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• 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.

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  Ram Dass

  Caring, Arms, Helping

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• Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and bigger creatures, Full-formed, arose from the new young earth and sky. The breed, for instance, of the dappled birds Shucked off their eggshells in the springtime, as Crickets in summer will slip their slight cocoons All by themselves, and search for food and life. Earth gave you, then, the first of mortal kinds, For all the fields were soaked with warmth and moisture.

  Lucretius

  Life, Summer, Spring

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Anthony M. Esolen (1995). “De rerum natura”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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• The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.

  George Santayana

  Art, Study, Occasions

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.135, Courier Corporation

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• I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.

  Vince Neil

  Beautiful, Daughter, Mother

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• Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it was somewhere else. No one seems to have noticed this fact. But grasping this firmly, one must pile experience upon experience. And once one has come to this understanding he will be a different person from that point on, though he may not always bare it in mind. When one understands this settling into single-mindedness well, his affairs will thin out.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Life, Somewhere Else, Understanding

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• Reminds us that greatness lies even in the smallest of moments, in the humblest of hearts, and we shall, each of us, be called to greatness. Whether we shall rise to meet it or let it slip away is the challenge put before us all.

  Libba Bray

  Lying, Heart, Greatness

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Love, Fear, Heart

  "Fictional character: Eva Perón". "Evita", www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• For some time now the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead. It happens when I speak to people. In the middle of a sentence it will come over me: yes, beyond a doubt this is death. There is little to do but groan and make an excuse and slip away as quickly as one can.

  Walker Percy

  People, Doubt, Growing

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.45, Open Road Media

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• Thanking people is dangerous business. A name always slips your mind.

  John Wayne

  Names, People, Mind

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• 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.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Children, Freedom, Fighting

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.458, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.

  David Gilmour

  Heart, Past, Example

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• I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick and heat my palm with it, then say to myself, "Ali you can't even bear this heat, how would you bear the unbearable heat of hellfire?"

  Muhammad Ali

  Islamic, Heart, Pockets

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• I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.

  Sylvia Plath

  Encouraging, Rejection, Trying

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• But you don't let true happiness slip out of your grasp without one helluva fight.

  Johanna Lindsey

  Fighting, True Happiness

  Johanna Lindsey (2010). “That Perfect Someone”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

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• ...to slip beneath the surface and soar along the silent bottom of the sea agile and shining in water honeycombed with light.

  Ellen Meloy

  Light, Sea, Water

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• if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Whole Life, Words And Music, Ifs

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.154, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot; Follow your spirit: and upon this charge, Cry — God for Harry! England and Saint George!

  William Shakespeare

  Saint George, Games, England

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 31

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• Did you just kiss me?" Will inquired. Magnus made a slip-second decision. "No." "I thought-" "On occasion the aftereffects of the painkilling spells can result in hallucinations of the most bizarre sort." "Oh," Will said. "How peculiar.

  Cassandra Clare

  Kissing, Decision, Kiss Me

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• To the everlasting credit of the people of District 12, not one person claps. Not even the ones holding betting slips, the ones who are usually beyond caring. Possibly because they know me from the Hob, or knew my father, or have encountered Prim, who no one could help loving. So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.

  Suzanne Collins

  Father, Caring, People

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