Slippery Quotes - Page 2

• Life is like fording a river, stepping from one slippery stone to another, and you must rejoice every time you don't lose your balance, and learn to laugh at all the times you do.

  Merle Shain

  Rivers, Laughing, Balance

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• It's two seasons since I raced in Sepang and I'm looking forward to it now. It's a track where you have a little bit of everything - it's hard to ride, it's hot, there are fast and slow corners, hard braking, long straights and everybody has references from the tests.
  Nevertheless, we need to wait to see on Friday what the temperature and track conditions are like to understand how the tyres will work, because it's normally very slippery. I'm really enjoying racing at the moment and I want to continue like this, pushing the maximum from our side without thinking about the others.

  Dani Pedrosa

  Friday, Thinking, Two

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• Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too sparse, too slippery, for it to be able to mold our theories. Rather the theories are more statements about us and ideology than about the past. Paleontology reveals more about how humans view themselves than it does about how humans came about, but that is heresy.

  David Pilbeam

  Dark, Past, Data

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• Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth.

  Claudius Claudianus

  Youth, Alas

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 921-24, De Raptu Proserpiae, III. 227, 1922.

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• 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.

  Fall, People, Barrels

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• You have to get knocked down to realize how people really feel about you. I've realized that more than ever lately. The other day, I was on my way to the car. It was hailing, the streets were slippery and I was having a tough time of it. I came to a corner and started to slip. But before I could fall, four people jumped out of nowhere to help me. When I thanked them, they all said they knew about my illness and had been keeping an eye on me.

  Lou Gehrig

  Fall, Eye, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's so easy to begin to demonize someone you think is so far removed and as the demonization begins to expand, it ends up being everybody but your friends. After a while everybody else but you. That is a slippery slope that is so easy to slide down, and that's what is dangerous.

  Cornel West

  Thinking, Down And, Slippery Slope

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.

  Ray Bradbury

  Philosophy, Lying, Moving

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.30, Hamilton Books

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• The road conditions are so variable here, there is ice, snow and everything in between. But a podium finish is a definite possibility if we stay smooth and adjust to the slippery conditions.

  Ken Block

  Ice, Snow, Variables

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• It [cats going outside the litter box] might have something to do with - you know, I am just thinking that if I am the cat, when I'm pooping, you know, I've got to strain a little bit more and maybe that affects how the kitty litter feels on my paws. I'd try a different sub straight, or something like that - make sure it's not slippery.

  Temple Grandin

  Cat, Thinking, Trying

  "Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin" by Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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• 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.

  Jesse Ventura

  War, Drug, Needs

  "Former governor Jesse Ventura talks about new books ‘Marijuana Manifesto’ and ‘Shit Politicians Say,’ plus much more". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• High tax rates in the upper income brackets allow politicians to win votes with class warfare rhetoric, painting their opponents as defenders of the rich. Meanwhile, the same politicians can win donations from the rich by creating tax loopholes that can keep the rich from actually paying those higher tax rates - or perhaps any taxes at all. What is worse than class warfare is phony class warfare. Slippery talk about 'fairness' is at the heart of this fraud by politicians seeking to squander more of the nation's resources.

  Thomas Sowell

  Heart, Winning, Class

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• I think it would be a mistake for social media companies to try to, on their own, determine or deign what is a fake news story and what isn't and shut it off, or what's a good news organization or a bad news organization. That's a very, very slippery slope.

  Vivian Schiller

  Mistake, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.npr.org

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• You can't exceed the system with language.  You can only exceed the system with events; recommended procedures that are better.  You can't exceed the system by telling people to be good, be kind, be considerate...  You have to take away the conditions that makes it necessary for you to be kind.  And to be kind, you design highways that aren't slippery; where no accidents, or less accidents, occur.  In the future, everybody becomes an innovator - a creator.

  Jacque Fresco

  People, Design, Events

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• In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture-it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Garden, Enemy, Sculpture

  Jamaica Kincaid (2001). “My Garden (Book)”, p.96, Macmillan

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• It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.

  Thomas Harris

  Planets, Damn, Hard

  Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.167, Penguin

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• And what a congress of stinks!- Roots ripe as old bait, Pulpy stems, rank, silo-rich, Leaf mold, manure, lime, piled against slippery planks, Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.

  Theodore Roethke

  Life, Giving Up, Breathing

  1948 The Lost Son,'Root Cellar'.

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• The ball must be as slippery as a wet baby.

  Tony Gubba

  Football, Baby, Balls

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Paul S. Kemp

  Christian, Real, Trying

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• When seen up close, dangers are controllable: when you begin to climb the mountain of your dreams, pay attention to the surroundings. There are cliffs, of course. There are almost imperceptible cracks in the mountain rock. There are stones so polished by storms that they have become as slippery as ice. But if you know where you are placing each footstep, you will notice the traps and how to get around them.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Dream, Inspiration

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• 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.

  Cyrus Pallonji Mistry

  Perspective, Decision, Slippery Slope

  Source: zeenews.india.com

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• I'm sure that any current or past player of mine would tell you that the balls we practice with are as bad as they can be: wet, sticky, cold, slippery. However bad we can make them, I make them. Any time that players complain about the quality of the footballs, I make them worse and that stops the complaining.

  Bill Belichick

  Football, Past, Player

  Source: hereandnow.wbur.org

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• I would've written this story [Django] if [Barack] Obama were president or if he never existed. For one, I think it's time to tell a story that deals with this subject America has avoided for so long. Most countries have been forced to deal with the atrocities of their past that still affect them to this day. But America has been pretty slippery in the way that it has avoided looking slavery in the eye. I believe that's a problem.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Country, Believe, Eye

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• Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.

  William A. Henry III

  Departure, Slippery Slope, Firsts

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• I basically don't think that the way we do things is that dependent on one resource, such as oil. There can be different kinds of engines for cars. I think that solar heating, wind heating can substitute for a lot of uses for oil. I'd like to see those things happen because they are more sustainable in any case. But I do not think that running out of oil is not going to bother us that much. I think we have got to be rescued by something or we really are going down a slippery slope.

  Jane Jacobs

  Running, Thinking, Wind

  Interview with James Kunstler for Metropolis Magazine, March 2001.

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