Slippery Quotes

132 Slippery quotes by 121 unique 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 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
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… — Unknown Author
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
Society really seems to have developed an unquestioning obedience towards spooky types… Did we get to where we are today via a slippery slope that… — Edward Snowden
The ball must be as slippery as a wet baby. — Tony Gubba
And what a congress of stinks!- Roots ripe as old bait, Pulpy stems, rank, silo-rich, Leaf mold, manure, lime, piled against slippery planks, Nothing would… — Theodore Roethke
It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet. — Thomas Harris
The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass... Wet grass is slippery — Greg Maddux

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