#slip

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without. ↗

— Albert Camus

#cannot #citizens #directly #goods #immoral

I slipped at a bus stop; I went one way and my hair went the other. That was the end of my wig. ↗

— Tia Carrere

#end #hair #i #other #slipped

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#i #i tried #slippery #tell #these

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#avoid #each #formulae #letting #make

Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#critic #emotional #frame #may #mind

People don't slip. Time catches up with them. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#people #slip #them #time #up

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it! ↗

— Davy Crockett

#chance #fame #fellow #greased #hands

Jimmy held on to the reins for dear life, and thought that a horse was about the most slippery creature to sit on that he had ever met. He slithered first one way and then another, and at last he slid off altogether and landed with a bump on the ground. Sticky Stanley and Lotta held on to one another and laughed till the tears ran down their faces. They thought it was the funniest sight in the world to see poor Jimmy slipping about on the solemn, cantering horse. ↗

— Enid Blyton

#horseback-riding #horses #humourous #laughing #reins

It's hard to get out of the barrel. It's slippery around the edges and people are happy to see you fall back in. ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

#back #barrel #edges #fall #get

So much about living life, to me, is about humility and gratitude. And I've tried very hard to have those qualities and be that person and I'm just so disappointed in myself that I allowed it to slip. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#allowed #disappointed #gratitude #hard #humility