Slippery Quotes

132 quotes by 125 authors

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. — Henry Adams
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
Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. — Ambrose Bierce
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
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
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
Life is slippery. Here, take my hand. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
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
Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery. — Mahatma Gandhi
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
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
All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point. — George Will
I think youâ€™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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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