Slippings Quotes & Sayings

Love is the Turing test, [ ... ] It is how we check for life. — Catherynne M Valente

There are a lot of good speakers nowadays, but very few good teachers. — D.R. Silva

All people who have reached the point of becoming nations tend to despise foreigners, but there is not much doubt that the English-speaking races are the worst offenders. One can see this from the fact that as soon as they become fully aware of any foreign race they invent an insulting nickname for it. — George Orwell

A good writer is a magician; she unfolds the dark secrets of mind. — Debasish Mridha

Love has a timeframe all of its own and love never dies. It is eternal. There is no end. There is no rush. There is no hurrying it. It waits patiently. It waits because it knows that there is no end and that like the sea it comes and goes. — Kate McGahan

What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go. — Lynne Truss

Love without action is meaningless and action without love is irrelevant. — Deepak Chopra

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor. — Sarah Bernhardt

Do act mysterious. It always keeps them coming back for more. — Carolyn Keene

The dialectic of antiquity tended towards leadership (the great individual and the masses
the free man and the slaves); so far the dialectic of Christendom tends towards representation (the majority sees itself in its representative and is set free by the consciousness that it is the majority which is represented, in a sort of self-consciousness); the dialectic of the present age tends towards equality, and its most logical
though mistaken
fulfilment is levelling, as the negative unity of the negative reciprocity of all individuals. — Soren Kierkegaard

When you take a lot of stick you want to ram it down people's throats. — Frank Lampard

I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name. Alibaba is easy to spell, and people everywhere associate that with "Open, Sesame," the command that Ali Baba used to open doors to hidden treasures in One Thousand and One Nights. — Jack Ma

Some people are too prideful to go out and reach out to people to help them in that situation because it's just such a dark time. — Terrell Owens

I'm totally human. — Serena Williams

Guidance, like all God's acts of blessing under the covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely does God will to guide us in the sense of showing us his way, that we may tread it; he wills also to guide us in the more fundamental sense of ensuring that, whatever happens, whatever mistakes we may make, we shall come safely home. Slippings and strayings there will be, no doubt, but the everlasting arms are beneath us; we shall be caught, rescued, restored. This is God's promise; this is how good he is. — J.I. Packer

I seek new perfumes, ampler blossoms, untried pleasures. — Joris-Karl Huysmans