The slippery slope was everywhere.

Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.

— William A. Henry III

Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope.

— Thomas Peterffy

What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Fine! Whatever! Just be careful, my hands are still slippery with your blood.”

— Rich Burlew

All you have to do is pick up a baseball. It begs to you: throw me. If you took a year to design an…

— Dave Dravecky

I can hear, underground, that sucking and sobbing, In my veins, in my bones I feel it,- The small water seeping upward, The tight…

— Theodore Roethke

Once a month I wake in the night, slippery with terror. I'm afraid, not because there's someone in the room, in the dark, in…

— Margaret Atwood

Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get…

— Iain Banks

I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving…

— Barbara Lee

People don't think about the fact that when Barack Obama's parents had him it was illegal for them to be married in several states…

— Kerry Washington

“(Hockey) It's a slippery game played on ice.”

— Punch Imlach

“It may seem a fine thing in song or story to be ankle-deep in the blood of your enemies but in reality it's slippery,…

— Engvyr Gunnarson

In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is

— Robert Herrick

there is nothing so uncertain and slippery as fact.

— Sara Coleridge

“Memories are slippery bastards – bring them into the light, handle them too often, they’ll bend, change colour. Keep them in the dark and…

— Sue Perkins