Slipping Quotes

The American Dream may be slipping away. We have overcome such challenges before. To recover the Dream requires knowing where it came from, how it lasted so long and why it matters so much.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.

Dixie has just fallen to pieces. There are little patches of Dixie. But even in the heart of Dixie - in Alabama - Dixie is slipping. They've stopped using the word in commercial listings.

My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while.

No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.

I feel like everything I do is successful and productive. It's gonna be hard to tell me I'm slipping.

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.

I'm not going to worry about the Cure slipping down into the second division; it doesn't bother me because I never expected to be in the first division anyway.

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.