Slippery Quotes

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
Ambrose Bierce

Great, King, Grease

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 night before they get away.
Earl Nightingale

Best, Night, Before

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 to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
David Herbert Lawrence

Nature, Truth, May

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 of mediocrity.
Vladimir Nabokov

Nothing, Group, Mediocrity

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.
Ovid

Makes, Step, Difference

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 see the dangers that we cannot shun.
John Dryden

Beauty, Cannot, Betray

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry Adams

Mean, Words, Thought

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 say to myself I'm never going to give anything away because there's never any point or benefit for me.
Kristen Stewart

Funny, Game, Give

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.

Happy, Hard, Around

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 true object of the nation's desire, the topic to which those slippery presidential spokesmen need always to be dragged back.
Thomas Frank

True, Else, Whatever

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry Adams

Mean, Words, Thought

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
Lillian Hellman

Truth, Tell, Word

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 you pull one thing one way and then you think, 'Oh my God, I've got to do the other side.'
Halle Berry

Women, God, Start

The U.S. Senate does not allow legislative provisions to be included in appropriations bills, for much the same reason that most Americans are concerned about earmarks: it creates a slippery slope by which lobbyists and special interest groups can sneak provisions into large, must-pass legislation.
Ron Wyden

Special, Same, Reason

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.
Leon Kass

Life, Human, Put

In the past, I often found that when I reached out for a fast cure it led me down a slippery slope of more medications, hopeful dependence on the next prescription and ultimately a much longer drawn-out illness.
Carre Otis

Past, Down, Often

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 labels are for food. Canned food.
Michael Stipe

Age, Food, Felt

When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.
John McCarthy

Build, Instinct, Terrace

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

Someone, Together, After

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 situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.
Iain Banks

Society, Legal, Situation

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 and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.
Ray Comfort

Good, God, Fear

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.
Michelle Shocked

Faith, Through, Soul

There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.
Alan K. Simpson

Long, American, Step

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 this country. So if we start making it okay that certain people can marry and other people can't, it's a slippery slope of civil rights. Who knows who is going to be allowed to marry or not marry next.
Kerry Washington

Parents, Him, Country

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Cool, Heart, Fanatic

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 slippery disease and it involves a vast number of cells in the body and those cells are continually mutating.
David Baltimore

Happen, Sure, Body

For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me.
Daniel Baldwin

Change, Thoughts, Before

There are two types of claims: those based on hard numbers and those based on slippery numbers.
Simon Sinek

Hard, Two, Based

Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table.
Dennis Ross

War, Stronger, Unless

Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope.
Thomas Peterffy

Rules, Bit, Bend

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