Top 229 Slips Quotes & Sayings

Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls.

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

My 20s were a blizzard of rejection slips.

... my today's self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take.

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

Now, I have no doubt that Mitt Romney was worried about pink slips whether he was going to have enough of them to hand out because his company Bain Capital and all of the jobs that they killed I'm sure he was worried he would run out of pink slips.

Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it.

Blue slips enable home-state senators to ensure that the federal judges serving in their states are highly qualified.

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

Life isn't a straightforward climb up the ladder. It can take a few slips to really gain perspective.

Hee stands not surely, that never slips.

The march of good fortune has backward slips: to retreat one or two paces gives wings to the jumper.

I would like to be No. 2 but never No. 1. When I was No. 1, all eyes were on me. No. 2 slips out the door quietly and makes another great record.

Experience is the Lord's school, and they who are taught by Him usually learn by the mistakes they make that in themselves they have no wisdom; and by their slips and falls, that they have no strength.

When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back.

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

I believe truly that Satan cannot endure it and so slips out of the room - more or less - when there is a true song.

Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.

I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.

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

a letter ... changes utterly the moment it slips inside an envelope. It stops being mine. It becomes yours. What I mean is gone. What you understand is all that remains.

God's hand never slips.

The best stories I have heard were pointless, the best books those whose plot I can never remember, the best individuals those whom I never get anywhere with. Though it has been practised on me time and again I never cease to marvel how it happens that with certain individuals whom I know, within a few minutes after greeting them we are embarked on an endless voyage comparable in feeling and trajectory only to the deep middle dream which the practised dreamer slips into like a bone slips into its sockets

Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies

People are being really picky about the upcoming election. I read that Americans do not want the next president to be a first-term senator, be over 65, or have a former president in the family. Then the Secret Service said, 'Hey, whoever slips through slips through. No promises.'

Time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days.

Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.

By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.

Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join others and push... You live, you help.

The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.

Thanking people is dangerous business. A name always slips your mind.

But high up on the mountain When the wind is hitting it If you're watching very closely The rock slips a little bit.

Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it].

If his IQ slips any lower, we'll have to water him twice a day

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.

We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.

Sometimes while you wait for what you think is better, Philomene said, what is good enough slips away.

Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.

It seems like time slips out of your hands. You wake up, and 2-3 years have passed.

Times like this, when she slips her hand into mine and holds on tight, and our husband becomes just a shadow in the doorway.

Twenty is a tough age because it slips past in the middle of so much else - university, gap year, leaving home, getting jobs.

Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way around them.

[On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held in the hand without causing muscular fatigue ... and it may be read through before the water has cooled. And if it slips down the drain pipe, all right, it slips down the drain pipe.

It's a shame publishers send rejection slips. Writers should get something more substantial than a slip that amounts to a pile of confetti. Publishers should send something heavier. Editors should send out rejection bricks, so at the end of a lot of years, you would have something to show besides a wheelbarrow of rejection slips. Instead you could have enough bricks to build a house.

He slips . . . but manages to regroup himself.

Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.

Ingrateful man with liquorish draughts, and morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind that from it all consideration slips.

One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark

I try to write as serious as possible, and then a joke slips in.

It's very rare that an older comedian sort of slips into an old-school clunker. You know, you don't hear too much of that anymore.

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

Though tightly the net of words forms, how surely truth slips out.

No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.

Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.

I remember one time I got one of my front teeth knocked out, and so I got a partial where they have the deal where they have the thing that slips in and slips out.

You think, 'Here's something I can hold on to,' but it always slips away.

Whenever faith seems an entitlement, or a measuring rod, we cast our lots with the Pharisees and grace softly slips away.

Heaven's net is very vast. It is sparsely meshed, yet nothing slips through.

And to my lips' Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn.