Slippery Quotes
132 quotes by 125 authors
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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
— Henry Adams
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I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's like a slippery slope - once you start…
— Halle Berry
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Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Is hockey hard? I don't know, you tell me. We need to have the strength and power of a football player, the stamina of a…
— Brendan Shanahan
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The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed.…
— Clarence Day
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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 in…
— Kerry Washington
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Life is slippery. Here, take my hand.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people…
— Alan K. Simpson
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I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is weaker than I…
— Douglas Hofstadter
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Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too sparse, too slippery,…
— David Pilbeam
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Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.
— Norman Mailer
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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.
— George Will
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I think you’ve got to be very, very careful when you start making blanket statements about what people say and think, as opposed to what…
— Mark Cuban
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This is a slippery slope. In addition to that at what point are we going to be okay marrying inanimate objects? Can I marry this…
— Rebecca Kleefisch
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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 mixocological difference between…
— David Foster Wallace
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When are we going to say cancer is cured? I'm not sure when that will happen, if that will happen because cancer is a very…
— David Baltimore
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New Rule: Gay marriage won't lead to dog marriage. It is not a slippery slope to rampant inter-species coupling. When women got the right to…
— Bill Maher
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I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think…
— Michael Stipe
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When seen up close, dangers are controllable: when you begin to climb the mountain of your dreams, pay attention to the surroundings. There are cliffs,…
— Paulo Coelho
Who Wrote These Slippery Quotes
125 authors contributed a total of 132 Slippery Quotes, led by these top contributors: