#slip

What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions. ↗

— William Blum

#also #beings #else #human #human beings

I slip from workaholic to bum real easy. ↗

— Matthew Broderick

#easy #i #real #slip #workaholic

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

— Michael Caine

#award #been #career #first #first time

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