Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope. — Thomas Peterffy Copy Share Image
Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given. — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
Time is a slippery concept, and we are often wrong about it... All too often we find ourselves looking in the right… — Frank Partnoy Copy Share Image
Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability. — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries. — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table. — Dennis Ross Copy Share Image
The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
And I like to keep whatever is mine remaining that way. It's a funny little game to play and it's a slippery… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
Finally you begin to make your mistakes on the highest level-let's say the upper slopes of slippery Parnassus-and it's at that point… — John Barth Copy Share Image
Life is like fording a river, stepping from one slippery stone to another, and you must rejoice every time you don't lose… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
Confessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's like a slippery slope -… — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
“Usually it was like spillage- cold and heavy, slippery and gray- but once in a while some stars had the nerve to… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
High tax rates in the upper income brackets allow politicians to win votes with class warfare rhetoric, painting their opponents as defenders… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Most of us hide behind egocentric biases that generate the illusion that we are special. These self-serving protective shields allow us to… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
It's two seasons since I raced in Sepang and I'm looking forward to it now. It's a track where you have a… — Dani Pedrosa Copy Share Image
If we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
If I get clear of my debts, I care not though men call me bold, glib of tongue, audacious, impudent, shameless, a… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about… — Daniel Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Jimmy held on to the reins for dear life, and thought that a horse was about the most slippery creature to sit… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
I would've written this story [Django] if [Barack] Obama were president or if he never existed. For one, I think it's time… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“She had touched life, played with it a little, but it is a slippery bugger, and finally we must close the door,… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
The road conditions are so variable here, there is ice, snow and everything in between. But a podium finish is a definite… — Ken Block Copy Share Image
I think it would be a mistake for social media companies to try to, on their own, determine or deign what is… — Vivian Schiller Copy Share Image
It is clear enough by now to most people that the camera never lies is a foolish saying. Yet it is doubtful… — James Agee Copy Share Image
The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
I have heard upscale adult U.S. citizens ask the ship's Guest Relations Desk whether snorkeling necessitates getting wet...I now know the precise… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Then suddenly he reached out and took her hand. "Why did you do that?" she asked softly. He looked up at the… — Susan May Warren Copy Share Image
Working out what it would take to program goodness into a robot shows not only how much machinery it takes to be… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The premise of Nossiter in 'Mondovino' would have been a lot more accurate when I started writing about wine in 1978 than… — Robert M. Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into,… — Barbara Lee Copy Share Image
People don't think about the fact that when Barack Obama's parents had him it was illegal for them to be married in… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
I can hear, underground, that sucking and sobbing, In my veins, in my bones I feel it,- The small water seeping upward,… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
Vodka eyeballing sounds great, but it's a slippery slope. Next, you'll be scotch nostriling, tequila nippling and, before you know it, Jager… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic… — David Baltimore Copy Share Image