Slips Quotes - Page 9

• That is the fearful part of having been near death. One knows how easy it is to die. The barriers that are up for everybody else are down for you, and you've only to slip through.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Easy, Near Death, Fearful

  Katherine Mansfield (1974). “The Letters of Katherine Mansfield”

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• Tis often seen
  Adoption strives with nature; and choice breeds
  A native slip to us from foreign lands.

  William Shakespeare

  Land, Choices, Adoption

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.234

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• the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip or defect in the preacher, to make a 'feature' in their article: the clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.

  George Eliot

  Church, Watches, Band

  George Eliot (2016). “The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus”, p.42, 谷月社

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• I despair at the thought that my life might slip by without God showing Himself mighty in my life.

  Jim Cymbala

  Despair, Might, Without God

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• Here's a simple way to abolish golf's elitist and exclusionary image and make it a truly all-American sport: ditch that fifties-Republican-martini-drinker's green Brooks Brothers-style sport jacket and make the winner of the Masters slip on something in, say, black leather with plenty of metal studs.

  Bruce McCall

  Sports, Brother, Golf

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• I have watched the river and the sea for a lifetime. I have seen rivers rob soil from the roots of trees until the giants came foundering down. I have watched shores slip and perish, the channels silt and change; what was beach become a swamp and a headland tumble into the sea. An island has eroded in silent pain since my boyhood, and reefs have become islands. Yet the old people used to say, People pass away, but not the land. It remains forever. Maybe that is so. The land changes. The land continues. The sea changes. The sea remains.

  Keri Hulme

  Beach, Pain, Islands

  Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.336, LSU Press

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• Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles, patient explanations of the obvious, fleeting allusions to the unthinkable. As a preliminary, the conversationalist must gauge the mood, the intelligence and the verbal facility of the company. To this end, a few words of pedantic exposition often prove invaluable.

  Jack Vance

  Challenges, Deception, Fleeting

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• The law of love and compassion for all living creatures is again a doctrine to which we are all too ready to pay slip service. However, if it is to become a reality, it requires a process of education, a veritable mental renaissance. Once it has become a reality, national as well as international problems will fall into perspectives and become easier to solve. Wars and conflicts, too, will then become a thing of the past, because wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

  U Thant

  War, Fall, Men

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• Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again.

  Robin Sharma

  Hands, Return, Sand

  Robin Sharma (2003). “Leadership Wisdom From The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”, p.95, Jaico Publishing House

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• In a banana republic, one might slip on a banana peel but things do work - now and then for the people, albeit inefficiently and unreliably.

  George Ayittey

  People, Republic, Might

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• The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a brand-new glove again. I'm completely in awe of this skill, since I happen to be both bilingual and a writer, but nevertheless a lousy translator.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Skills, Gloves, Language

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• What is the Absolute? Something that appears to us in fleeting experiences--say, through the gentle smile of a beautiful woman, or even through the warm caring smile of a person who may otherwise seem ugly and rude. In such miraculous but extremely fragile moments, another dimension transpires through our reality. As such, the Absolute is easily corroded;it slips all too easily through our fingers and must be handled as carefully as a butterfly

  Slavoj Žižek

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Caring

  Slavoj Žižek (2001). “The Fragile Absolute Or, Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?”, p.128, Verso

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• I had a one day slip, Matt. So what do you do? You get up and you go on, and you try not to do it again.

  Liza Minnelli

  Trying, One Day, Goes On

  "Liza Minnelli describes best and worst of times". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.today.com. February 8, 2005.

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• It fortifies my soul to know That, though I perish, Truth is so: That, howsoe'er I stray and range, Whate'er I do, Thou dost not change. I steadier step when I recall That, if I slip Thou dost not fall.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Fall, Soul, Steps

  Arthur Hugh Clough (1874). “Poems: With a Memoir”, p.53

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• 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

  Rocks, Wind, Mountain

  Song: The Rock, Album: Portrait Gallery, 1975

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• Speak to all men as you do to yourself, with no concern for the effect you make, so that you do not shut them out from your world; lest in isolation the meaning of life slips out of sight and you lose the belief in the perfection of creation.

  Leo Szilard

  Men, Sight, Perfection

  "The Voice of the Dolphins: And Other Stories". Book by Leo Szilard, 1961.

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• Just sitting back trying to recapture a little of the glory of... Well, the time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of Glory days - yeah, they'll pass you by, Glory days - in the wink of a young girl's eye.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Girl, Eye, Trying

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• These terrifying forms which advance on me, I feel that the despair they bring is alive. It slips into this nucleus of life beyond which the paths of eternity extend. It is truly an eternal separation. They slip their knives into this center where I feel myself a man, they sever those vital ties which bind me to the dream of my lucid reality.

  Antonin Artaud

  Dream, Reality, Men

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.93, Univ of California Press

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• Only while they are conforming their actions to the model of some archetypal hero do the Arunta feel that they are truly alive, for in those roles they are immortal. The occasions on which they slip from such molds are quite meaningless, for time immediately devours those occasions and reduces them to nothingness.

  Huston Smith

  Hero, Mold, Roles

  "The World's Religions". Book by Huston Smith, 1991.

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• In the eternal lazy morning of the Pacific, days slip away into months, months into years; the seasons are reduced to the faintest nuance by the great central fact of the sunshine; one might pass a lifetime, it seems, between two yawns, lying bronzed and naked in the sand.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Morning, Lying, Sunshine

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• Slowly, after dozens of rejection slips and failures and false starts and postponed dreams - what Langston Hughes called dreams deferred - I stepped onto the hallowed ground of being a published novelist, and then 15 years later, I even started to make real money.

  Anne Lamott

  Dream, Real, Years

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.304, Penguin

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• Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.

  William James

  Fall, Wind, Suffering

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.111, Harvard University Press

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• My grandmother would shanghai pilots at the Havana airport so they'd bring me cartons of mango baby food - the only kind I'd eat. I learned to eat peach later. And in every carton, she'd slip a Cuban record.

  Gloria Estefan

  Baby, Grandmother, Airports

  "Estefan Performs Songs From New Album" by Caitlin Johnson, www.cbsnews.com. August 27, 2007.

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• All those hints and glimpses of a larger and more satisfying democracy, which literature and our own hopes supply, have a tendency to slip away from us and to leave us sadly unguided and perplexed when we attempt to act upon them.

  Jane Addams

  Democracy, Glimpse, Hints

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.15, Youcanprint

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• Cinderella's glass shoe was the perfect size.... so why did it slip off as she ran? It must have been to attract the attention of Prince Charming. I don't see any other explanation.

  Ai Yazawa

  Glasses, Shoes, Perfect

  "Nana". Manga by Ai Yazawa, 2000 - 2009.

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