Slope Quotes
102 quotes by 95 authors
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Life is most delightful on the downward slope.
— Seneca the Younger
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Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope.
— Thomas Peterffy
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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
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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
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[W]hat have we done with our forests? Chopped them, and burned them, and wasted them; and now almost the last of the great stands of…
— Madison Grant
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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
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Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Vermilion alone could render the brilliant red of the tiles on the opposite slope. The orange of the soil, the harsh crude colors of the…
— Maurice de Vlaminck
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We have a right to expect that the best trained, the best educated men on the Pacific slope, the Rocky Mountains, and great plains States…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the realization of all that you have dreamed of…
— Bayard Taylor
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Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope, par and yardage.
— Thomas Friedman
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Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and…
— Roland Joffe
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The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
— C.S. Lewis
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We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the…
— Adam Sandler
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I had ordered long legs, but they never arrived. My eyes are weird too, one is gray and the other is green. I have a…
— Jane Seymour
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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
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When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters,…
— Margaret Atwood
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So it's back once more, back up the slope. Why do they always ruin my rope with their cuts? I felt so ready the other…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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...The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of life’s morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles!…
— Victor Hugo
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seven wonders of the world and I have to ask for an eighth fill a bottle with some prayers and spend them on hope create…
— David Levithan
Who Wrote These Slope Quotes
95 authors contributed a total of 102 Slope Quotes, led by these top contributors: