Slipping famous quotes

When your institution is under threat, you feel you have a lot of hostility, you feel things are slipping away, you have got internal problems, there's a tendency to turn inward and to focus on yourselves.
-- David Brooks

#Focus #Inward #Slipping

You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all about you again. But it's not all about you. Love doesn't work that way.
-- David Levithan

#Giving Up #Way #Slipping

Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#Reality #Letters #Slipping

How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. By accepting the human condition more simply, and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel

#Earth #Littles #Slipping

Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison
-- Jenny Holzer

#Sake #Slipping #Madness

I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while
-- Jeri Ryan

#Character #Littles #Slipping

It's all we ever wantedAnd all we'll ever needAnd now it's slipping through our fingersFaster than the speed of night.
-- Jim Steinman

#Night #Slipping #Speed

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
-- Khaled Hosseini

#Pain #Night #Slipping

Youth is slipping, dripping, pearl on pearl, away.
-- Louise Imogen Guiney

#Pearls #Slipping #Youth

Seems like Ive been here before. Seems so familiar. Seems like Im slipping into a dream within a dream.
-- Maynard James Keenan

#Dream #Slipping #Familiar

Opportunity ... It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.
-- Napoleon Hill

#Opportunity #Doors #Slipping

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

#Thinking #Hands #Slipping

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 #Slipping

but it's not safe and I can feel him slipping away, so I just get out one more sentence. "Stay with me." As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I hear him whisper a word back but I don't catch it.
-- Suzanne Collins

#Sleep #Safe #Slipping

I was slipping, man, and it was definetly time to get a grip.
-- Wendelin Van Draanen

#Men #Slipping

The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
-- William Golding

#World #Slipping

There is a moment in every relationship when one of the parties senses its imminent demise. There's a moment of incredible clarity when your stomach drops with a heavy sense of dread, and you feel like control is slipping through your fingertips even as you try to hold on.
-- Allison Winn Scotch

#Party #Trying #Slipping

Fall was slipping quietly into winter
-- Robert Dugoni

#Fall #Winter #Slipping

To explain why a man slipped on a banana peel, we do not need a general theory of slipping.
-- Sidney Morgenbesser

#Men #Slipping #Needs

I also remember riding home from a wonderful day with only my bathing shorts, losing the chain of my bicycle, having no hand breaks, and slipping high speed on a street covered with stones. I had to go to the hospital.
-- Volker Bertelmann

#Home #Hands #Slipping