Quotes About Slipping

The bits which did mean anything were often so wonderfully buried that no one could ever spot them slipping past in the avalanche of nonsense.

Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.

We were late among the living, and by the time God got to us ice was already slipping from the poles as if from an imperfectly decorated cake.

Pleased rather with some soft ideal scene, The work of Fancy, or some happy tone Of meditation, slipping in between The beauty coming and the beauty gone

You've got to stop letting women slip drugs into your mouth, Dex, it's unhygienic. And dangerous. One day it'll be a cyanide capsule.

Prayer is so simple. It is like quietly opening a door and slipping into the very presence of God. - Unknown

Consider a girl who keeps slipping off, arms limp as old carrots, into the hypnotist's trance, into a spirit world speaking with the gift of tongues.

Johanna: What's it feel like when you dive? Jacques: It's a feeling of slipping without falling. The hardest thing is when you're at the bottom. Johanna: Why? Jacques: 'Cause you have to find a good reason to come back up... and I have a hard time finding one.

All worlds are whores, forever betraying you and slipping away into the darkness while your soul years for them.

It was sunny, with the special light of an autumn afternoon, when everything casts such dark and long shadows that the earth, and all that was standing on it, looked as if it was slipping towards the sun.

Perhaps her mind is slipping, perhaps she's going off the tracks, perhaps she is coming unhinged. Unhinged, like a broken door, like a rammed gate, like a rusting strongbox. When you're unhinged, things make their way out of you that should be kept inside and other things get in that ought to be shut out. ~~Margaret Atwood

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

Freedom of the press and also of speech, assembly, and worship can persist as social forms and legal guarantees, while at the same time their functional realities can be gradually slipping away.

I was deeply depressed. I felt my brain slipping out of its casing and down my neck, like an egg sliding on a frying pan. So

Conviction that it was out Interest to be completely virtuous, was not sufficient to prevent our Slipping...

Sometimes that's what happens. No cigarette burns, no bone snaps. Just an irretrievable slipping.

The announcement generated considerable controversy, and Tesla was widely criticized as a "mad scientist" whose sanity was slipping. Undaunted, he approached

This is a time of great confusion, of great darkness; other networks are slipping in through other dimensional planes. Soon the network of enlightenment will leave this earth.

Time is passing : not leaden steppingBut sprinting on winged feet, Quick silver slipping by.

One of the things about George III is that he was aware that the monarchy was slipping away. There was revolution in the air all over Europe. Because of the unpopularity of his predecessors, one of the things he wanted to do was to establish some sort of credibility to the monarchy.

I can't complain about the support I've been given over the years, but I don't like it slipping away. Nobody says 'I'd like to be a bit less successful next year, please'. Nobody on the planet wants that, and I certainly don't.

Rampage's footwork is atrocious. His boxing is slipping. He doesn't take the fight game seriously.

I enjoy slipping into different roles and incorporate certain experiences into my life.

I don't want to be that girl hobbling around in heels, falling in snow.