Top 256 Slippery Quotes & Sayings

If you are ignorant enough, you can walk like a cat on the slippery roof-ridge of danger.

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

Slippery stages were the terror of my life.

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

Truth is like a waterslide-only fun when it's slippery and wet.

There's a slippery slope in regard to authority. If you say that the history in Genesis is not true, then you can just take man's ideas as true. When you go outside of Scripture, why shouldn't you just reinterpret what marriage means? So our emphasis is on the slippery slope regarding authority.

The Volkswagen Group has proved that it can remain firmly on track even when the terrain is slippery.

Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth.

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

Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.

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

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

I mean, happiness is a slippery thing. What makes you happy one day can make you miserable the next.

Wishes are slippery things. You have to be very specific or you can get exactly what you wished for and still end up with nothing.

Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.

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

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

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Once we start thinking of ourselves as polluted, there is not much incentive to behave well, and the trip down the slippery slope is likely.

Fendi on my slippers & my cookies always slippery

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

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.

In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is

Life is slippery. Here, take my hand.

The ball must be as slippery as a wet baby.

Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things. They identify the wrong people. They give us the details of events that never happened. Memory is slippery, but my memories suddenly feel slipperier.

One cheat meal is fine, but keep it at one, because if you do another, then it's a slippery slope.

I think it's a slippery slope to fabricate a different life.

Civilisation is slippery, the word has multiple and contested meanings.

As reporters set aside their traditional role as fact seekers and veer into advocacy, they find themselves on a slippery journalistic slope.

Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell

Life is slippery. We all need a loving hand to hold onto.

When you get on to fresh grass courts you always know that they might be a bit slippery but you have to adjust accordingly.

The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope.

Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

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

I say every dog looks like no other but that isn't true. Not entirely. Difference is slippery.

For me, the single word "God" suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

The hardest thing any man can do is to fall down on the ice when it's slippery, and get up and praise the Lord.

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

I have been reporting on celebrity stuff my whole career and am very aware that fame is a slippery slope.

The aphorism is a slippery plaything.

there is nothing so uncertain and slippery as fact.

That the reason why they are not fallen already and do not fall now is only that God's appointed time is not come. For it is said, that when that due time, or appointed time comes, their foot shall slide. Then they shall be left to fall, as they are inclined by their own weight. God will not hold them up in these slippery places any longer, but will let them go; and then, at that very instant, they shall fall into destruction; as he that stands on such slippery declining ground, on the edge of a pit, he cannot stand alone, when he is let go he immediately falls and is lost.

Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given.

Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table.

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

When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.

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.

You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.

I'm not a big fan of the George Lucas school of meddling and tinkering. That's a slippery slope.

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me.

Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.

Children's literature - the product of adult guesswork - often fails to account for its audience's slippery grasp on the world.

He has always been a slippery little git! (on Joe Cole)

A term like capitalism is incredibly slippery, because there's such a range of different kinds of market economies.