Slippery Quotes

132 Slippery quotes by 121 unique authors

Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a… — Iain Banks
I have never seen . . . so slippery, so disgusting a candidate. — William J. Clinton
Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which… — Michael Bassey
If we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed to between a… — Benjamin Carson
A Christian home! What a power it is to the child when he is far away in the cold, tempting world, and voices of sin… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge
Once you begin reviewing judgment calls, which in basketball there are many, you put yourself on a very slippery slope in terms of what could… — Stu Jackson
To say someone is a producer... it's kind of a slippery term. — J. Robbins
In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is — Robert Herrick
Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth. — Claudius Claudianus
Thoughts are slippery fish in a cold shallow stream.If you are intent on capturing a worthwhile one, you need to stand very still, focus very… — Vera Nazarian
Your readers should be so compelled to read your copy that they cannot stop reading until they read all of it as if sliding down… — Joseph Sugarman
Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the… — Thomas Frank
It's hard to get out of the barrel. It's slippery around the edges and people are happy to see you fall back in. — Robert Downey, Jr.
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And… — John Dryden
What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth. — Lillian Hellman
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as… — D. H. Lawrence
Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich. — Mike Mills
There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication… — Vladimir Nabokov
Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the… — Earl Nightingale
There are two types of claims: those based on hard numbers and those based on slippery numbers. — Simon Sinek
'Vegetarian' is a slippery word. I don't eat cheese, I don't eat duck - the point is I'm vegan. — Grace Slick
And I like to keep whatever is mine remaining that way. It's a funny little game to play and it's a slippery slope. I always… — Kristen Stewart
...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source. — Billy Collins
Then a miracle occurred in the form of a plate of sandwiches. Geryon took three and buried his mouth in a delicious block of white… — Anne Carson
Life is slippery. We all need a loving hand to hold onto. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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