Friend Slipping Away Quotes & Sayings

Go ahead: Live with abandon. Be outrageous at any age. What are you saving your best self for? — Oprah Winfrey

That's why we're not doing it again. That kind of lust gets out of control and you'll end up scorched." Lying to yourself now? It wasn't just Lyssie that would get singed. There was something about this woman that was slipping beneath his skin and stirring the embers of a part of him he'd thought long dead. He shoved that away and firmed his voice. "I'm going to be your friend and protector. — Jennifer Apodaca

The Monte Carlo TV Festival is great because it's a celebration of television and great storytelling. — Eric Close

In the midst of aches in the joints, anxiety over the payment of bills, concern for the safety of those you love, envy of the rich, fear of robbers, dog-weariness at the end of a long day, and the unacceptable slipping away of youth, there does occasionally appear, like a ray of light piercing the clouds, a moment of joy. Perhaps you have entered the house and sat down before removing your boots. A friend has pressed a drink into your hands, and is telling you the latest news. You see from his face that he's glad you've come in; and you are glad too. Glad to be sitting down, glad of the warming glow of the dirnk, glad of your friend's furrowed brow and eager speech. For this moment, nothing more is required. It is in its way unimprovable. This is what I mean by the Great Enough. — William Nicholson

America is so large and so diverse that it is overwhelming, but my first impressions are favorable. — Wojciech Jaruzelski

There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing could be more impossible than to answer such a question, though nothing could be more agreeable than to have it asked. "How — Jane Austen

He was a square, pale-faced man of almost forty, and had the appearance of having outlived every emotion to which humanity is subject. — Mary Elizabeth Braddon

could put no weight on the wounded ankle at — Larry McMurtry

Don't make your audience play Jeopardy. Giving your answer before asking the question puts your audience at a disadvantage. It will also reveal your biases. Make it clear what question you are trying to answer first. Then allow your audience to engage in answering the question too. — John Fairclough

The Atonement of Jesus has to work out in practical, unobtrusive ways in my life. Every time I obey, absolute Deity is on my side, so that the grace of God and natural obedience coincide. Obedience means that I have banked everything on the Atonement, and my obedience is met immediately by the delight of the supernatural grace of God. — Oswald Chambers

I love you, Terese. I always will." Something changed. I could see it in her body language. A stiffening of the spine maybe. The best friend was slipping away. An adversary was coming to the surface. — Harlan Coben

I didn't mean it to sound so challenging, but I needed to try to reassure my friend. Gritting my teeth, I tried to think of some way to placate Gideon. It was as if I was standing in quicksand, the earth slipping away from my feet the more I spoke. A smart man would keep his mouth shut. I wasn't always a smart man. — Jocelynn Drake

Sometimes you have to grab life by the horns and ride it,even if it tries to throw you. — Karen Hawkins

Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in life, in love, in faith, and in purity ... Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress. — Karen Kingsbury

The gospel is a reasonable system, and it appeals to men's understanding; it is a matter for thought and consideration, and it appeals to the conscience and reflecting powers. — Charles Spurgeon

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket. — Karl Kraus

I thought I would have a quiet pint ... and about 17 noisy ones. — Gareth Chilcott

You don't have to stay anywhere forever. — Neil Gaiman