Slippery Quotes
There are two types of claims: those based on hard numbers and those based on slippery numbers.
Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.
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 could lead to their downfall.
I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I think that's a slippery slope to hell.
Legalizing homosexuality is not the first step on a slippery slope to legalizing everything.
Memory is a slippery thing. When something terrible happens to you, like the loss of someone you love...memory can turn into a soft blanket that hides you from the loss.
I say every dog looks like no other but that isn't true. Not entirely. Difference is slippery.
Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.
I think about willpower almost never. I realize for myself, trying to be more disciplined is pretty nebulous and it's often a slippery target. For me, I've just thought about incentives.
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 are filling his ears, and his feet stand on slippery places.
For me, the single word "God" suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.
A term like capitalism is incredibly slippery, because there's such a range of different kinds of market economies.
If you are ignorant enough, you can walk like a cat on the slippery roof-ridge of danger.
Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea.
The older woman waiting for admittance looked at me, then over her shoulder at Patch, who was vanishing down the hall. “Honey,” she told me, “he looks slippery as soap.
...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.
Confessional poetry is, to my mind, more slippery than poems that are sloppily autobiographical; I find the confessional mode much more akin to dramatic monologue.
If wrong decisions, both from a governance perspective and ethics, happen, this is a slippery slope that we will go down. Unless and until you recognise this, you will not take the right decisions.
Once we start thinking of ourselves as polluted, there is not much incentive to behave well, and the trip down the slippery slope is likely.
The trouble with talking about irony is, it's such a slippery thing that the second you start talking about it, you're a better example of it than you are an analyst.
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 an easy route just so I can complicate send my heart down that slippery slope
Time is a slippery concept, and we are often wrong about it... All too often we find ourselves looking in the right places at the wrong times.
Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth.
On movies like Star Trek and Star Wars, you have so much that will be created or extended digitally, and it's a slippery slope where you can get lost in a world of synthetic.
It is clear enough by now to most people that the camera never lies is a foolish saying. Yet it is doubtful whether most people realize how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is.
That's why you need the war on drugs to put all these pot smokers in prison so that the prisons remain full and the corporations remain profitable. It's a slippery slope.
I think we get into very dangerous territory when we start to define who can and cannot be a feminist. It's such a slippery slope, and I have no interest in being the feminist police!
The hardest thing any man can do is to fall down on the ice when it's slippery, and get up and praise the Lord.
Virginius Pass, go across the Talus slope and pick up the route through the notch, it is steep, slippery, brutal.
The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood ... Life elsewhere was real and slippery and struggled in the arms like a big fish dying in air.
Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky.
I try to pester Christian Dunn from time to time. As soon as my schedule allows, I plan to make a real pest of myself and get some hot, slippery Chaos action.
Changing the legal standard creates a slippery slope...plural marriage. The court opened up a pandora's box by doing that.
I don’t want these memories to become slippery, to just disappear into the thin air of life the way most things seem to. I want them to stick – even the bad ones – so I repeat them often.
It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.
Leaders don't climb hills of success with shoes of pride. They are slippery enough to bring a person down to the valley.
Prior preparation is Success divided by half. Once you have fully prepared, every hand glove that obstacles wear to pull you away from reaching your destination will become slippery!
Shift yourself away from the slippery ground of bad attitudes and you’ll not drift off!
