Slopes Quotes - Page 7

• The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Hatred, Here And There

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Father Goriot”, p.24, Library of Alexandria

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• seven wonders of the world and I have to ask for an eighth fill a bottle with some prayers and spend them on hope create an easy route just so I can complicate send my heart down that slippery slope

  David Levithan

  Prayer, Heart, Bottles

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.36, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic group. If we were dogs, we'd be the same breed.... Trouble doesn't come from Slopes, Kikes, Niggers, Spics or White Capitalist Pigs; it comes from the heart.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Dog, Heart, Race

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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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• It was a sunny day, I was carrying a child in a white dress to be christened. The path to the church led up a steep slope, but I held the child in my arms firmly and without faltering. Then suddenly my footing gave way ... I had enough time to put the child down before plunging into the abyss. The child is our idea. In spite of all obstacles it will prevail.

  Sophie Scholl

  Children, Ideas, White

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• He stepped toward her, and her heart just ached from it. His face was so handsome, and so dear, and so perfectly wonderfully familiar. She knew the slope of his cheeks, and the exact shade of his eys, brownish near the iris, melting into green at the edge. And his mouth-she knew that mouth, the look of it, the feel of it. She knew his smile, and she knew his frown, and she knew- she knew far to much.

  Julia Quinn

  Heart, Irises, Looks

  FaceBook post by Julia Quinn from Aug 27, 2015

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• But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on the slopes of my silence and then, boom, it's 1980. Once I erupt, they'll be wiping my verbal ashes off their windshields as far away as North Dakota.

  Sarah Vowell

  Silence, Guy, Loner

  FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from May 18, 2015

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• 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

  Thinking, Way, Slippery Slope

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• Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Climbing, Hatred

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• The terrain of Adam’s Mountain provides a palette unique to the region. Rather than typical mountain slope play, the course is broad and open, allowing for special golf experiences on every single hole.

  Tom Weiskopf

  Golf, Unique, Play

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• New Rule: Gay marriage won't lead to dog marriage. It is not a slippery slope to rampant inter-species coupling. When women got the right to vote, it didn't lead to hamsters voting. No court has extended the equal protection clause to salmon. And for the record, all marriages are "same sex" marriages. You get married, and every night, it's the same sex.

  Bill Maher

  Dog, Sex, Gay

  Bill Maher (2006). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.113, Rodale

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• Plaque was placed on 6 May 1977 at Bellevue (a house on the slopes of the Wienerwald) where the Freud family spent their summers.

  Sigmund Freud

  Summer, Dream, House

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• My father ended up starting the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. My mother started a school.

  Greg Mortenson

  Christian, Mother, Father

  "The Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. January 15, 2010.

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• All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines; Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees; Silence of water above a sunken tree: The pure serene of memory of one man,- A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters of the world.

  Theodore Roethke

  Memories, Men, Shine On

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• 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

  Giving Up, War, Erosion

  "Alone on the Hill". Interview With Bill Hogan, www.motherjones.com. September 20, 2001.

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• Society really seems to have developed an unquestioning obedience towards spooky types… Did we get to where we are today via a slippery slope that was entirely within our control to stop? Or was it a relatively instantaneous sea change that sneaked in undetected because of pervasive government secrecy?

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Sea, Today

  "How Edward Snowden went from loyal NSA contractor to whistleblower" by Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2014.

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• Everybody wants to be on the mountaintop, but if you'll remember, mountaintops are rocky and cold. There is no growth on the top of a mountain. Sure, the view is great, but what's a view for? A view just gives us a glimpse of our next destination-our next target. But to hit that target, we must come off the mountain, go through the valley, and begin to climb the next slope. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life's next peak.

  Andy Andrews

  Life, Views, Giving

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• When Love And Jealousy Collide On The Slopes, Winter Break Turns Deadly

  Richelle Mead

  Winter, Break, Love And Jealousy

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Frostbite: A Graphic Novel”, p.162, Penguin

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• The handling of our forests as a continuous, renewable resource means permanent employment and stability to our country life. The forests are also needed for mitigating extreme climatic fluctuations, holding the soil on the slopes, retaining the moisture in the ground, and controlling the equable flow of water in our streams.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Mean, Water

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.65, Best Books on

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• Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the slippery slope: once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die.

  Peter Singer

  Doctors, Want, Able

  Peter Singer (2016). “Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter”, p.89, Princeton University Press

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• My garden is a forest ledge
  Which older forest s bound;
  The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge,
  Then plunge to depths profound!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Garden, Lakes, Blue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.231, Delphi Classics

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• 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, Hopeful, Next

  "A Healing Balance" by Carre Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2012.

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• Heathenism had proved unequal to the wants of men; and it was when the most thoughtful among the Pagans were turned away from its hollow mockeries and misleading altars that the anthem of the angels broke clear and loud above the slopes of Bethlehem: "Glory to God in the highest! Peace on earth and good will toward men!

  William Mackergo Taylor

  Christmas, Angel, Thoughtful

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• Anytime that knowledge and a version of the truth are considered to be absolute, fundamentalism is the result, whether the arena is Christianity, Islam, Judaism, or any other religious faith, as well as atheism, conservative or liberal political views, even evolution or intelligent design. Anytime our minds are closed and there is no room for dissent, we are on a slippery slope towards stagnation.

  Carlton Pearson

  Religious, Intelligent, Views

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• I think the classical music is on a dangerous downward slope, because it's not seeking strong enough resonance with its society.

  Laurence Equilbey

  Strong, Thinking, Enough

  "There Will Be Joy". Interview with Lydia Perović, logger.believermag.com. August 1, 2013.

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