Slopes Quotes

• Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Long, Life Is, Ends

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• The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.

  Marcel Proust

  Imagination, Mind, Slides

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained”, Vintage

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• Life is most delightful on the downward slope.

  Seneca the Younger

  Aging, Life Is, Delightful

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• We call the slope of a line m because the word "slope" begins with the letter m.

  Howard Whitley Eves

  Lines, Letters

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• O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings

  John Keats

  Solitude, Building, Thee

  John Keats (1859). “The Poetical Works of John Keats: With a Life”, p.372

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• Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Courage, Art, Philosophy

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, Josefine Nauckhoff (2001). “Nietzsche: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in German Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.161, Cambridge University Press

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• There's a slope down toward evil, a gentle gradient that can be ignored at each step, unfelt. It's not until you look back, see the distant heights where you once lived, that you understand your journey.

  Mark Lawrence

  Journey, Evil, Looks

  Mark Lawrence (2013). “Emperor of Thorns”, p.333, Penguin

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• If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Way, Affection

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• If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Fall, Teaching, Assessment

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• Think of it like running down a slope. If you attempt to slow down and choose your steps, you’re bound to trip up and stumble.

  Tessa Dare

  Running, Thinking, Down And

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• And from a poise at this station the plane may swoop down, at great disadvantage if close to the back of the wave, at various slopes and directions till it cuts into the air that is being raised by the face of the following wave, which again enables it to resume its velocity.

  Lawrence Hargrave

  Cutting, Air, May

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• There is a big difference between an honest mistake made in a moment of spiritual weakness and a willfull decision to disobey persistently the commandments of God. Those who deliberately choose to violate God's commandments or ignore the standards of the Church, even when promising themselves and others that someday they will be strong enough to repent, are stepping into a dangerously slippery slope upon which many have lost their spiritual footing.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Spiritual, Strong, Mistake

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• I think you’ve got to be very, very careful when you start making blanket statements about what people say and think, as opposed to what they do. It’s a very, very slippery slope.

  Mark Cuban

  Thinking, People, Slippery Slope

  "Cuban not in favor of booting Sterling". Interview with Tim MacMahon, www.espn.com. April 29, 2014.

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• I wasn't into the lunchbox and thermos ski slope, and that's where I was going.

  Johnny Depp

  Skis, Thermos

  "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• The course of a great statesman resembles that of navigable rivers, avoiding immovable obstacles with noble bends of concession, seeking the broad levels of opinion on which men soonest settle and longest dwell, following and marking the almost imperceptible slopes of national tendency, yet always aiming at direct advances, always recruited from sources nearer heaven, and sometimes bursting open paths of progress and fruitful human commerce through what seem the eternal barriers of both.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Rivers, Heaven

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.166

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• The fear thou art in, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "prevents thee from seeing or hearing correctly, for one of the effects of fear is to derange the senses and make things appear different from what they are; if thou art in such fear, withdraw to one side and leave me to myself, for alone I suffice to bring victory to that side to which I shall give my aid;" and so saying he gave Rocinante the spur, and putting the lance in rest, shot down the slope like a thunderbolt.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Art, Giving, Victory

  Miguel de Cervantes (2015). “Don Quixote (StoneHenge Classics): The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.107, StoneHenge Classics

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• The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as soon as you ca not be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge! The time will soon past when you could be content to live concealed int he woods like timid deer!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Past, Men, Sea

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

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• Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.

  Richard Dawkins

  Real, Blind, Gentle

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Time, Aging, Easy

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: in two volumes”, p.95

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• I read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so scattered. And what I read, instead of being like a nearly invisible suit that sometimes oppresses me, is the external world’s tremendous and remarkable clarity, the sun that sees everyone, the moon that splotches the still earth with shadows, the wide expanses that end in the sea, the blackly solid trees whose tops greenly wave, the steady peace of ponds on farms, the terraced slopes with their paths overgrown by grape-vines.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Moon, Objectivity, Sea

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• For years afterwards when Amory thought of Eleanor he seemed still to hear the wind sobbing around him and sending little chills into the places beside his heart. The night when they rode up the slope and watched the cold moon float through the clouds, he lost a further part of him that nothing could restore; and when he lost it he lost also the power of regretting it.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Regret, Heart, Moon

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.943, Simon and Schuster

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• ...The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of life’s morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles! Oh, reader, whoever you may be, do you have such memories? Have you walked in the underbrush, pushing aside branches for the charming head behind you? Have you slid laughing, down some slope wet with rain, with the woman you loved?

  Victor Hugo

  Girl, Morning, Memories

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• This is a slippery slope in addition to that. At what point are we going to OK marrying inanimate objects? Can - can I marry this table, or this, you know, clock? Can we marry dogs? This is ridiculous.

  Rebecca Kleefisch

  Christian, Dog, Men

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 29, 2010.

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• The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous one; but if we fail to meet it, the story of our race will be drawing to its close. Humanity will have turned its back upon the still untrodden heights and will be descending again the long slope that stretches, across a thousand million years of time, down to the shores of the primeval sea.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Future, Space, Race

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• That is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house hidden at the crest of a hill, high in the trees, a grassy slope leading upwards from the water, fish leaping and birds strafing to take the bugs that lived at the border between water and sky. Earth was the constant noise of crickets, and winds, and birds

  Orson Scott Card

  Lakes, Wind, Sky

  Orson Scott Card (2011). “Ender's Game: Ender Series”, p.127, Hachette UK

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