The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.
I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you're swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.
While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out at the back.
He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip.
There's something so muffled about the way you experience things. It's as if you were trying to slip through life unchanged.
By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips.
Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed to sleep. It's always in the middle of the night, or you're half-awake or tired, when your critical faculties are switched off. So letting go is what the whole game is. Every time you try to put your finger on it, it slips away. You turn on the lights and the cockroaches run away. You can never grasp them. . .
He slips. . . but manages to regroup himself.
I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.
Be truly present in the moment that you are in and don’t let life slip by unnoticed.
Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.
Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies
Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.
I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.
I married a woman who's not going to take anything. No slips. She's very accountable, and she holds me very accountable.
There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life---real life---seems to exist at one remove.
I try to attach myself to things around me so that they don't slip away.
There's many a slip twixt the blueprints and a new house.
My back is so scar-tissued that you couldn't find a place to slip a knife.
