Top 370 Slippery Slope Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
I'm not messing with skiing. You can't get this Puerto Rican on the slope. Uh-uh.
Who says there's just one safe way to walk, one road properly lit, and the rest - all slippery water, unmarked?
I mean, happiness is a slippery thing. What makes you happy one day can make you miserable the next.
Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.
Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.
The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.
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.
In its wild state, the truth is fluid, slippery, vagrant, scrambled, promiscuous, kaleidoscopic, and beautiful.
As the work proceeded we found that the western end of the cutting receded under the slope of the rock, and thus was partly roofed over by the overhanging rock.
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.
Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.
It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.
Finally you begin to make your mistakes on the highest level-let's say the upper slopes of slippery Parnassus-and it's at that point you need coaching.
It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.
When reviewers take the trouble to compliment a writer on her style, it is usually because she has made it easy for them to slide from one sentence to another like an otter down a slope.
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 spirit of interdependence will not cost us more than it's worth. On the steep slope ahead, holding hands is necessary. And it just might be that we can learn to enjoy it.
I would never think of asking a girl out on the High Street or the disco or at school. But on the ski slope, I would chat to all the girls.
The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass... Wet grass is slippery.
Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky.
For those who are on the roof become insolent as they don't know yet about the slope and the slipperiness of the roof!
...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.
I say every dog looks like no other
but that isn't true. Not entirely.
Difference is slippery.
I liked the South-West straightaway - the beautiful scenery, the way the mountains slope down to the sea. And the wildness of it all.
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
If you are ignorant enough, you can walk like a cat on the slippery roof-ridge of danger.
Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death.
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.
Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc—where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation is unfamiliar to the extreme.
For me, the single word "God" suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.
Children's literature - the product of adult guesswork - often fails to account for its audience's slippery grasp on the world.
I loved playing at Lord's - I ended up with 26 wickets at 11.50 from three Tests there. Maybe the wicket, because of the slope, was perfect for my style of bowling.
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.
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.
The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass... Wet grass is slippery
I love skiing fast. You're going 80 to 85 m.p.h. down an icy slope, and I love it.
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.
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.
The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.
'Vegetarian' is a slippery word. I don't eat cheese, I don't eat duck - the point is I'm vegan.
Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
I think the classical music is on a dangerous downward slope, because it's not seeking strong enough resonance with its society.
Her beauty climbed the rolling slope, it came into the room, rustling ghost-like through the curtains.
I found that things weren't going well upstairs. Carter was a crumpled heap of chicken warrior on the slope of the pyramid.
Once you have conquered your profession and are standing at the summit, it is all very well to look back down the slope and indulge yourself with regrets.
Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz.
ANOINT, v.t.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. As sovereigns are anointed by the priesthood, So pigs to lead the populace are greased good.
A term like capitalism is incredibly slippery, because there's such a range of different kinds of market economies.
I think there is something about countries and nations that is hard to define. And, in fact, that's probably why we create such massive boundaries - because it's so slippery where they begin and where they end.
If you are a plumber, there is an objective way to establish whether you put together a great piping system or not. Art is a bit more slippery than that.
It's not easy for you, Dad
You seek your own space
You slope off to watch telly
But still see (Mom's Mum's Mam's) face
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.
Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon.
The Volkswagen Group has proved that it can remain firmly on track even when the terrain is slippery.
You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.
Oh, that river of wishes, the slippery crocodile dream of it, how it might have carried my body down through all the glittering sand bars to the sea.
The island is named Oooguruk, an Inupiaq word meaning 'bearded seal,' an animal plentiful on the shores of Alaska's North Slope.
I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.
