Slippery Quotes - Page 7

• Every time I jog through the world, I am awed by what I find. On a winter morning, when it seems too cold and slippery for safe jogging or bicycling, I can still go out and experience the glory of sunlight turning icy branches into strings of sparkling diamonds.

  Bernie Siegel

  Morning, Winter, Jogging

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• Then a miracle occurred in the form of a plate of sandwiches. Geryon took three and buried his mouth in a delicious block of white bread filled with tomatoes and butter and salt. He thought about how delicious it was, how he liked slippery foods, how slipperiness can be of different kinds. I am a philosopher of sandwiches, he decided. Things good on the inside.

  Anne Carson

  Block, White, Miracle

  Anne Carson (1998). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Knopf

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

  Kristen Stewart

  Funny, Games, Play

  "Kristen's Wedding" by Lauren Milligan, www.vogue.co.uk. October 5, 2011.

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• Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Recovery, Addiction, Ascent

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “Collected Works”

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• 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

  Memories, Grief, Together

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• 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.

  Cate Marvin

  Mind, Dramatic, Monologues

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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

  Simon Sinek

  Numbers, Two, Claims

  "Slippery Numbers" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• 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

  Baths, Groups, Mediocrity

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1996). “Novels, 1955-1962”, Library of America

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• 'Vegetarian' is a slippery word. I don't eat cheese, I don't eat duck - the point is I'm vegan.

  Grace Slick

  Ducks, Cheese, Vegetarian

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• Changing the legal standard creates a slippery slope...plural marriage. The court opened up a pandora's box by doing that.

  Rick Santorum

  Pandora's Box, Slippery Slope, Boxes

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.nbcnews.com. July 22, 2015.

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• Virginius Pass, go across the Talus slope and pick up the route through the notch, it is steep, slippery, brutal.

  Karl Meltzer

  Notches, Brutal, Routes

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• Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky.

  Mark Haddon

  Stars, Sky, Sailing

  "The Red House by Mark Haddon - review" by Carol Birch, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2012.

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• 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

  Evil, Generations, Slippery Slope

  FaceBook post by Ray Comfort from Mar 22, 2014

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• It was a joint, which put it one slippery step up from a dive.

  Nora Roberts

  Joints, Steps, Step Up

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J. D. Robb In Death Collection”, p.102, Penguin

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• It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.

  William P. Young

  Games, Despair, Slides

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• The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Doors, Hands, Body

  H. P. Lovecraft (2007). “The Whisperer in Darkness”, p.7, Wordsworth Editions

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• Fendi on my slippers & my cookies always slippery

  Nicki Minaj

  Cookies, Slippers, Materialistic

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• In its wild state, the truth is fluid, slippery, vagrant, scrambled, promiscuous, kaleidoscopic, and beautiful.

  Rob Brezsny

  Beautiful, Truth, Vagrants

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.167, Frog Books

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• 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.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Waiting, Looks, Vanishing

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Hush, Hush”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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

  Leon Kass

  Hands, Slippery Slope, Boundaries

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• 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.

  Kerry Washington

  Country, Gay, Thinking

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• Life is slippery. Here, take my hand.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Friendship, Best Friend, Uplifting

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• All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

  George Will

  Political, Important, Four

  George F. Will (1984). “Statecraft as Soulcraft”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.

  Norman Mailer

  Blood, Cities, Chicago

  Norman Mailer (2016). “Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968”, p.88, Random House

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• Who says there's just one safe way to walk, one road properly lit, and the rest - all slippery water, unmarked?

  Betsy Sholl

  Water, Safe, Way

  Betsy Sholl (2004). “Late Psalm”, p.59, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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