Slippery Slope Quotes

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

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

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

Build, Instinct, Terrace

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

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

And if you get caught up in combing the Internet for what people think of you or how people perceive you, I think that's a slippery slope.
Adam Scott

Internet, Caught, Perceive

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 will get reproductive cloning.
David Baltimore

Made, Congress, Argument

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 the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.
Barbara Lee

War, Giving, Wish

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 be reviewed, and ultimately the number of reviews that could take place that would make it unwieldy.
Stu Jackson

Yourself, Basketball, Put

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