Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height! when you do fall, You dash yourselves… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
The U.S. Senate does not allow legislative provisions to be included in appropriations bills, for much the same reason that most Americans… — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
In its wild state, the truth is fluid, slippery, vagrant, scrambled, promiscuous, kaleidoscopic, and beautiful. — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
For reasons not always at the time explicable, there are specific occasions when events begin suddenly to take on a significance previously… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Once you begin reviewing judgment calls, which in basketball there are many, you put yourself on a very slippery slope in terms… — Stu Jackson Copy Share Image
ANOINT, v.t.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. As sovereigns are anointed by the priesthood, So pigs… — Liu Shaoqi Copy Share Image
A term like capitalism is incredibly slippery, because there's such a range of different kinds of market economies. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
This is a slippery slope in addition to that. At what point are we going to OK marrying inanimate objects? Can -… — Rebecca Kleefisch Copy Share Image
In the past, I often found that when I reached out for a fast cure it led me down a slippery slope… — Carre Otis Copy Share Image
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Your readers should be so compelled to read your copy that they cannot stop reading until they read all of it as… — Joseph Sugarman Copy Share Image
The indignity of it!- With everything blooming above me, Lilies, pale-pink cyclamen, roses, Whole fields lovely and inviolate,- Me down in the… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
There is a big difference between an honest mistake made in a moment of spiritual weakness and a willfull decision to disobey… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
What money creates, money preserves: if thy wealth decays, thy honor dies; it is but a slippery happiness which fortunes can give,… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
In the specific case of abortion, the matter is particularly easy in that no woman wants a late abortion. Once abortion was… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
He should have known better because, early in his learnings under his brother Mahmoud, he had discovered that long human words (the… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too… — David Pilbeam Copy Share Image
Changing the legal standard creates a slippery slope...plural marriage. The court opened up a pandora's box by doing that. — Rick Santorum 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… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
Civilisation is slippery, the word has multiple and contested meanings. — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
You can't exceed the system with language. You can only exceed the system with events; recommended procedures that are better. You can't… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When seen up close, dangers are controllable: when you begin to climb the mountain of your dreams, pay attention to the surroundings.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
