Robert Smith
Musician
"It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence."
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Steve Jobs
Entrepreneur
"I thought deeply about this. I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and as we get a little more influence in the world is if we change our core values and start letting it slide, I can't do that. I'd rather quit."
Gunnar Peterson
Athlete
"Don't show up late. Don't try to slide out early. Don't cheat your rep counts. And definitely, don't hold back. Leave it all in the gym!"
Marcel Proust
Novelist
"The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection."
Anne Sexton
Poet, Author
"I would like to think that no one would die anymore if we all believed in daisies but the worms know better, don't they? They slide into the ear of a corpse and listen to his great sigh."
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"The only rule I got is if you slide, get up."
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"Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still."
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"If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides."
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"For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide."
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"When sins are dear to us we are too prone to slide into them again. The act of repentance itself is often sweetened with the thought that it clears our account for a repetition of the same sin."
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"He that is drunken * * * Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill Did with his liquor slide into his veins."
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"From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California."
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"...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward."
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"Ah! what is human life? How, like the dial's tardy-moving shade, Day after day slides from us unperceiv'd! The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth; Too subtle is the movement to be seen; Yet soon the hour is up--and we are gone."
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"I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can't breathe."
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"No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken."
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"I brought a condom," I tell her when I slide her panties down. We're both hot and sweaty, and I can't resist hr anymore. "I did, too," she whispers against my neck. "But we might not be able to use it." "Why not?" I expect her to tell em this was all a mistake, that she really didn't mean to get me all hot and bothered just to tell me I'm not worthy enough to take her virginity, but it's the truth. She clears her throat. "It all d-d-depends on whether or not you're allergic to l-l-latex."
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"If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure."
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"History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced"
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"We can slide it Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers: They call it easing the Spring."
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"I don't want to dive into that mud slide, which is what I consider the literary process."
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"If she wasn't careful, she'd slide without a ripple into the gently flowing stream of her old life, pulled back under the current without a wimper of protest. Another housewife lost in the flow."
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