Quotes About Slips

Another kind of wind, raging out of the Old Sun all the while, but it slips through the hull and the photon sails like they aren't there at all. Dark-wind, some call it. Or ghost-wind or shadow-wind.

him to fax me copies of the slips. When we were finished on the phone, I did the math. Sure enough. I was at four hundred and two percent. I went back to my rolodex, found Tory's number. She could uncover who

I'm a big fan of, like, wearing old, vintage slips and stuff as outdoor wear. I got, like, a pair of these little silk bloomers. I think they were even, like, considered underwear in the '40s. I wore them as shorts the other day.

No, I don't think you understand just how stupid goblins are. Let me give you an example. One of the B'wa Kell generals, and this is their top fairy, was caught caught trying to pass off forged credit slips by signing his own name.

Memory, which so confounds our waking life with anticipation and regret, may well be our one earthly consolation when time slips out of joint.

A man's home is his refuge. I have no wish to share mine with a feral cat who spends all her time sharpening her claws and thinking of inventive ways to flay me when my guard slips.

Apathy is the glove in which evil slips its hand.

For making mistakes is not an exercise of competence, nor is the commission of slips an exercise of knowledge how; it is a failure to exercise knowledge how.

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string when one slips off, all the rest follow.

I remember the black wharves and the slips,And the sea-tides tossing free;And Spanish sailors with bearded lips,And the beauty and majesty of the ships,And the magic of the sea.

The child that slumbers within us has become a confirmed insomniac. What is the point of growing up? Some like to let their slips and parapraxes show through, to revel in their strange behaviour: they are absolutely set on having an Unconscious.

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.

it's as empty as a merchant's soul. Sorry, Kheldar, it's just an old expression. That's all right, Beldin, Silk forgave him grandly. These little slips of the tongue are common in the very elderly.

such wanton, wild, and usual slips/ As are companions noted and most known/ To youth and liberty.

trouble. The Bull hates excess, and seldom messes around with it in any form, but when he slips, he does it the way he does everything else—on a grand scale.

People say that time slips through our fingers like sand. What they don't acknowledge is that some of the sand sticks to the skin. These are the memories that will remain, memories of the time when there was still time left.

We build museums to house history, but it slips out through the cracks of sash and jamb

There are at least five effective pathways for traveling inward to gain insight into the composition of our shadow: (1) soliciting feedback from others as to how they perceive us; (2) uncovering the content of our projections; (3) examining our "slips" of tongue and behavior, and investigating what is really occurring when we are perceived other than we intended to be perceived; (4) considering our humor and our identifications; and (5) studying our dreams, daydreams, and fantasies.

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.

The study of slips is the study of the psychology of everyday errors—what Freud called "the psychopathology of everyday life." Freud believed that slips have hidden, dark meanings, but most are accounted for by rather simple mental mechanisms.

An interesting property of slips is that, paradoxically, they tend to occur more frequently to skilled people than to novices. Why? Because slips often result from a lack of attention to the task. Skilled people—experts—tend to perform tasks automatically, under subconscious control. Novices have to pay considerable conscious attention, resulting in a relatively low occurrence of slips.

It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.

blood slips down her chin, and I start to feel dizzy. I look

The taxonomy of medical error is vast, colorful, and at times confusing. There are slips, lapses, harmless hits, and near misses; errors of omission and of commission; operator errors, system errors, accidents, complications, and bad outcomes.