Top 183 Sliding Quotes & Sayings

Companions are we, enlivened by a mighty gallop quickly sliding a harsh straw basket of sea foam gathered astride the tide.

We are sliding into a time of simplification where the practical design of everyday things will be an important demand to consider

Slud is something more than slid. It means sliding with great effort.

I have combination skin so if I wear too thick foundation, I can feel it sliding off in areas, and then I'm conscious of it all day.

On the clay, I am used to sliding so much and I move really well, but I can't slide on the hard courts.

Reality is a sliding door.

Vincent Van Gogh, who said to the hat salesman, I like it, but it keeps sliding over my ear. Never got a dinner!

I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window.

We're a shifty, sliding population. ... What we refer to as 'home' may be a place we haven't seen in years; a place where there's no one left who knows our name.

Witihin seconds the headhunter had lost control of his car and it squealed, sliding sideways right into several other cars. Cool!' said the Gasman.

The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God.

The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door.

There was no closing my eyes and sliding back into that blissful dream of normal. This was my normal now.

I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.

There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of "expediency." There is no such thing as sliding up- hill.In morals the only sliders are backsliders.

The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics.

What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought.

Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.

To be useful in defence, to win back the ball, you don't always have to go sliding into the tackle. It's also about your positioning; sometimes all you have to do is take a step back.

The appearance of the other in the world corresponds therefore to a congealed sliding of the whole universe.

[On an actor who'd broken her leg in London:] Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister.

The car suddenly veered off the road and we came to a sliding halt in the gravel. I was hurled against the dashboard. My attorney was slumped over the wheel. “What’s wrong?” I yelled. “We can’t stop here. This is bat country!

It seems there's a sliding scale between the money they spend on a movie and its creativity.

Once while sliding under a table, I hurt my knee badly.

I remember power-sliding on my knees the first time I got a job.

I know death is the fascinating snake under the leaves, sliding and sliding; I know the heart loves him too, can't turn away, can't break the spell. Everything wants to enter the slow thickness, aches to be peaceful finally and at any cost. Wants to be stone.

I am sad, like the hot dust on the streets And the music of fresh fallen leaves Caught in a sliding summer breeze.

Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.

A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.

Maturity and experience shouldn't stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters.

Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer.

I have a sliding glass door on my closet, and when I slide it one way I can see all my uniforms, and the other way is all my own clothes.

I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it

As for this," Magnus said sliding the stele into Jace's jeans pocket, "keep it in your pants, Shadowhunter." - 219

I do think about how different my life might have been had my mother not died so young, but I try not to delve into it too deeply, as it's like 'Sliding Doors,' isn't it? You just don't know.

I'd found heaven and grabbed it as tightly as I could, but it was unraveling, an insubstantial thread sliding between my fingers, too fine to hold.

To follow the drops sliding from a lifting oar, Head up, while the rower breathes, and the small boat drifts quietly shoreward.

All nations that throw their military weight around, occupying neighboring lands and treating the residents with callous and humiliating disregard, are already sliding towards the dark possibilities in human nature.

I don't think that sliding down a wall with a bottle of Sancerre in your hand at 6:30 in the morning is particularly attractive when you're approaching 40 and you've got a kid.

I had no money to buy books, so between classes and work, I haunted the library. I even tutored in French with a sliding scale of payment: twenty dollars for an A, fifteen for a B, ten for a C, five for a D.

Marching onward, marching onward Marching to that lovely tune Marching onward, marching onward Happy as a bird in June Sliding onward, sliding onward Listen to that rag Hop and skip now do that slow, oh Do that slow drag Dance slowly, prance slowly Now you hear that pretty rag Dance slowly, prance slowly Now you do the real slow drag Waltz slowly, waltz slowly Listen to the ragtime Hop and skip Now do the slow, oh, do the slow drag

People, like dogs, love repetition. Chasing a ball, lapping a course in a race car, sliding down a slide. Because as much as each incident is similar, so it is different.

I don't look at comedy as a sliding scale of offensiveness.

I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.

The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth.

My path to motherhood was challenging, to say the least, and I always feel like I'm living a 'Sliding Doors' version of my life.

Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled.

To one who has led a virtuous life, to sin is the easiest thing in the world. No experience of unpleasant consequences grits that smooth sliding fall, no recollection of disillusionment blurs that pure desire.

The smell of fuel, driving on the limit on the edge of sliding, it just gives you a lot of adrenaline.

I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.

We had 10 months, sliding schedule to do 52 episodes. After you get over the shock of the size of the number, the job became one of expansion.

Sometimes,” he says, sliding his arm across my shoulders, “people just want to be happy, even if it’s not real.

To pretend I was sliding down the stair rail." He laughed again. " You should have done it. I would have caught you at the bottom.

Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from.

Collective action is a tough thing, but I can't think of a more divided moment than right now. We're going to keep sliding - Detroit will keep sliding, the country will keep sliding, and we'll just become a second-rate nation - if we don't make some decisions as a country.

Everything is a railway junction where past and future are sliding over one another, not touching.

Writing a book is like sliding down a rainbow! Marketing it is like trudging through a field of chewed bubblegum on a hot, sticky day.

There is nothing better in life than sliding down snow before flying through the air.

We work our jobs, collect our pay, believe were gliding down the highway, when in fact we're slip sliding away.