Slips Quotes - Page 26

Within seconds thoughts become words that slip off our tongue and into the world. Pausing before we speak may seem cumbersome, but it allows us to decide: Is this helpful? Does this need to be said now? What is the best way to say this?

David Jeremiah

Wisdom, Doe, Needs

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He isn't stupid, but his interests are so narrow I doubt I could slip a sheet of paper in between them

Mercedes Lackey

Stupid, Doubt, Paper

Mercedes Lackey (2012). “Beauty and the Werewolf”, p.326, LUNA

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You just can't beat slip covers for giving that friendly air hospitals need so desperately.

Dorothy Draper

Air, Giving, Design

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Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed, that you slip not into the manner of the vulgar (the uninstructed).

Epictetus

Ignorant, Attention, Stranger

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Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream. [...] When I fully awaken, I'm momentarily comforted. I try to hold on to the peaceful feeling of the dream, but it quickly slips away, leaving me sadder than ever.

Suzanne Collins

Dream, Giving, Leaving

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.318, Scholastic Inc.

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People aren't just ants rushing around over a crust of bread. Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundreds of others. It's up to us to decide if those micro connections are positive or negative. But whichever we decide, it does impact the ones we deal with. One word can give someone the strength they needed at that moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburst or word could be the tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge into destruction.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Smile, Impact, Rushing

Sherrilyn Kenyon (2012). “Infamous: Chronicles of Nick”, p.244, Macmillan

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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.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Giving, Tiny, Causes

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Clearly, there are a thousand and one scenarios for how someone can slip through the cracks. I'll walk down the street and see a homeless person, and I'll want to stop them and say, How did this happen? Where's your mother? Are you physically ill? Mentally ill?

William Baldwin

Mother, Cracks, Want

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We will not "forget" so as to be able to rejoice; we will rejoice and therefore let those memories (of wrongs suffered) slip out of our minds!

Miroslav Volf

Memories, Mind, Able

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Let us not glide through this world and then slip quietly into heaven, without having blown the trumpet loud and long for our Redeemer, Jesus Christ. Let us see to it that the devil will hold a thanksgiving service in hell, when he gets the news of our departure from the field of battle.

Charles Studd

Jesus, Long, Heaven

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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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God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.

Saint Augustine

Hope, Support, Should

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Understand, I'll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I'll pursue solitary pathways through the pale twilit meadows with only this one dream: You come too.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Dream, Stars, Reading

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Sometimes all you need in love is to make each other happy, to make each other laugh. So long as you can still do that ten years down the line then I think you're gold. Never let the laughter slip from your relationship.

Maya Angelou

Laughter, Romantic Love, Love Is

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What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.

Laozi

Inspirational, Generations, Wells

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He slips . . . but manages to regroup himself.

Dan Maskell

Tennis, Manage

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This is the truth about things: If you take something that isn't yours, it will never belong to you. You can try to hold on to it, but somehow, it will slip through your fingers. If something wasn't meant to be yours, it won't be. No matter what you do to keep it, you will lose it.

Aryn Kyle

Trying, Matter, Fingers

Aryn Kyle (2008). “The God of Animals: A Novel”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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I want to make a bet with you.” Her interest perked up. “You do? About what?” Already knowing it wouldn’t go over well, Spencer braced himself. “I bet you can’t go a month without cursing.” Her chin tucked in, and her brows came down. “What does that have to do with anything?” He had no idea, except that it annoying him to hear her be so coarse. “Go a month without cursing.” He hated himself, but he said, “Every time you slip, you owe me a kiss.

Lori Foster

Kissing, Ideas, Knowing

Lori Foster (2012). “A Perfect Storm”, p.24, HQN Books

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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

Rain, Blow, Wind

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He pulled the envelope out of his pocket and ripped it open, then took out the slip of paper. The soft lights that ringed the mirror lit up the message in a warm glow. It was two short sentences: " KILL ME. IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN MY FRIEND, KILL ME.

James Dashner

Mirrors, Light, Two

James Dashner (2013). “The Maze Runner Complete Collection”, p.1064, Chicken House

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Once I thought I saw you in a crowded hazy bar,
Dancing on the light from star to star.
Far across the moonbeam I know that's who you are,
I saw your brown eyes turning once to fire.

I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream,
You could have been anyone to me.
Before that moment you touched my lips
That perfect feeling when time just slips
Away between us on our foggy trip.

Neil Young

Dream, Stars, Eye

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If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Gossip, Silence, Secret

Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.43, Publishdrive

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As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn't in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

Willie Nelson

Drinking, Order, Smoking

Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin (2006). “The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart”, p.29, Penguin

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People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory—and this is largely determined by the extent of coverage in the media. Frequently mentioned topics populate the mind even as others slip away from awareness. In turn, what the media choose to report corresponds to their view of what is currently on the public’s mind. It is no accident that authoritarian regimes exert substantial pressure on independent media. Because public interest is most easily aroused by dramatic events and by celebrities, media feeding frenzies are common

Daniel Kahneman

Memories, Independent, Views

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The adult who puts his arm around his companion in the ballroom, and the child in the roadway, skipping in a round dance - they forget themselve, they dissolve the weight of earthly contact and the rigidity of daily existence. The soul slips into a twilight stage.

Curt Sachs

Dance, Children, Twilight

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