Slope Quotes
102 quotes by 95 authors
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You are built to pull a cart, to lift a heavy load and bear it, to haul up the long slope, and so am I,…
— Marge Piercy
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How is it possible not to feel that there is communication between our solitude as a dreamer and the solitudes of childhood? And it is…
— Gaston Bachelard
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There's a slope down toward evil, a gentle gradient that can be ignored at each step, unfelt. It's not until you look back, see the…
— Mark Lawrence
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Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.
— Leon Kass
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In the end, to ski is to travel fast and free – free over untouched snow country. To be bound to one slope, even one…
— Hans Gmoser
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Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc—where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation…
— Amanda Ripley
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The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines;…
— Theodore Roethke
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I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up…
— Barbara Lee
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Anytime that knowledge and a version of the truth are considered to be absolute, fundamentalism is the result, whether the arena is Christianity, Islam, Judaism,…
— Carlton Pearson
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The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you…
— David Baltimore
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Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.
— Honore de Balzac
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This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous…
— Ray Comfort
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We can get more energy out of the north slope of Alaska; we have available the ability to make ourselves less dependent on those uncertain…
— John W. Snow
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I love skiing fast. You're going 80 to 85 m.p.h. down an icy slope, and I love it.
— Lindsey Vonn
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The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope; big stars were shining over the silent fields; here and…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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A great number of soundings, mainly along the continental slope of the New England States were also taken by the vessels of the United States…
— Alexander Agassiz
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The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.
— Marcel Proust
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We stand, when we are young, on the sunny slope among the pines, and look across an unknown country to the mountains. There are clouds,…
— Amy Carmichael
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Virginius Pass, go across the Talus slope and pick up the route through the notch, it is steep, slippery, brutal.
— Karl Meltzer
Who Wrote These Slope Quotes
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