Slippery Quotes - Page 8

I have never seen . . . so slippery, so disgusting a candidate.

William J. Clinton

Disgusting, Candidates

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To say someone is a producer... it's kind of a slippery term.

J. Robbins

Kind, Producers, Term

"Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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As slippery as smooth grapes, words exploding in the light like dormant seeds waiting in the vaults of vocabulary, alive again, and giving life: once again the heart distills them.

Pablo Neruda

Heart, Vocabulary, Light

Pablo Neruda, Margaret Sayers Peden (2000). “Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda”, p.199, Univ of California Press

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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.

Michael Bassey

Negative, Praying, Downfall

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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.

Mae West

Real, Cutting, Air

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What money creates, money preserves: if thy wealth decays, thy honor dies; it is but a slippery happiness which fortunes can give, and frowns can take; and not worth the owning which a night's fire can melt, or a rough sea can drown.

Francis Quarles

Night, Fire, Sea

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In the specific case of abortion, the matter is particularly easy in that no woman wants a late abortion. Once abortion was made legal, the age of the aborted fetus went down. The slope slipped in the other direction. If we legalize RU-486 and other similar new drugs, the age will fall to one week or less and start approaching zero. The slippery slope will slide in the other direction. The only reason we have late abortions is because we make early abortion difficult.

Garrett Hardin

Zero, Fall, Abortion

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O scaly, slippery, wet, swift, staring wights, What is 't ye do? what life lead? eh, dull goggles? How do ye vary your vile days and nights? How pass your Sundays? Are ye still but joggles In ceaseless wash? Still nought but gapes and bites, And drinks, and stares, diversified with boggles.

Leigh Hunt

Sunday, Night, Lakes

Leigh Hunt (1857). “The poetical works of Leigh Hunt, revised by himself and ed. with an intr. by S.A. Lee”, p.112

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Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.

Robert Jordan

Eels, Sometimes, Baskets

Robert Jordan (2016). “The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4”, p.1109, Macmillan

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As a child walking over a slippery and dangerous path cries out, "Father, I am falling!" and has but a moment to catch his father's hand, so every believer sees hours when only the hand of Jesus comes between him and the abysses of destruction.

Theodore L. Cuyler

Jesus, Children, Father

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 89, 1895.

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If I get clear of my debts, I care not though men call me bold, glib of tongue, audacious, impudent, shameless, a fabricator of falsehoods, inventor of words, practised in lawsuits, a pettifogger, a rattle, a fox, a sharper, a knave, a dissembler, a slippery fellow, an imposter, a rogue that deserves the cat-o-nine-tails, a blackguard, a twister, a licker-up of hashes; they call all this when they meet me, if they please, I care not.

Aristophanes

Cat, Men, Tails

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At night, the moon, a pregnant woman, walks cautiously over the slippery heavens.

Richard Aldington

Moon, Night, Heaven

Richard Aldington, Michael Copp (2002). “An Imagist at War: The Complete War Poems of Richard Aldington”, p.52, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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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.

J. J. Abrams

Stars, War, World

"Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino, J.J. Abrams, and More Band Together to Keep Kodak Film Alive; Deal Being Struck with Studios" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. July 30, 2014.

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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.

Frank Partnoy

Wrong Time, Right Place, Concepts

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All you have to do is pick up a baseball. It begs to you: throw me. If you took a year to design an object to hurl, you'd end up with that little spheroid small enough to nestle in your fingers but big enough to have some heft, lighter than a rock but heavier than a hunk of wood. Its even, neat stitching, laced into the leather's slippery white surface, gives your fingers a purchase. A baseball was made to throw. It's almost irresistible.

Dave Dravecky

Baseball, Rocks, Years

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Thoughts are slippery fish in a cold shallow stream.If you are intent on capturing a worthwhile one, you need to stand very still, focus very hard on somewhere outside yourself, and then simply ignore it until it gets so close that it tickles your ankles.Then, pounce.

Vera Nazarian

Focus, Needs, Ankles

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I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is weaker than I would like. And most likely the readers, authors, and editors of that magazine would be equally hard pressed to come up with cogent, non-technical arguments convincing a skeptic of this point, especially if pitted against a clever lawyer arguing the contrary. How come Truth is such a slippery beast?

Douglas Hofstadter

Clever, Truth, Science

Douglas Hofstadter (2008). “Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern”, p.85, Hachette UK

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