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«Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand»
Author: Bodie Thoene | About: Apathy | Keywords: apathy, glove, gloved, gloves, hand and glove, slips
«When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back»
«I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.»
«Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.»
Author: Minor White | About: Heart, Travel | Keywords: arrive, camera, expose, film, horizon, slips, traveling
«Time by minutes slips away, First the hour, then the day, Small the daily loss appears, Yet soon it amounts to years»
Author: Ronald Tierney | Keywords: amounts, loss, slips, slip away
«It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.»
«Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth»
Author: Irish Sayings | About: Truth | Keywords: slips, slip of the tongue