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.
[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.
I think it's a slippery slope to fabricate a different life.
I liked the South-West straightaway - the beautiful scenery, the way the mountains slope down to the sea. And the wildness of it all.
One cheat meal is fine, but keep it at one, because if you do another, then it's a slippery slope.
She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.
I found that things weren't going well upstairs. Carter was a crumpled heap of chicken warrior on the slope of the pyramid.
I skied on Astroturf and PVC pipe on the slope in my backyard.
Legalizing homosexuality is not the first step on a slippery slope to legalizing everything.
I'm not messing with skiing. You can't get this Puerto Rican on the slope. Uh-uh.
Changing the legal standard creates a slippery slope...plural marriage. The court opened up a pandora's box by doing that.
Life is most delightful on the downward slope.
Vodka eyeballing sounds great, but it's a
slippery slope. Next, you'll be scotch nostriling, tequila nippling and,
before you know it, Jager tainting.
All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.
Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death.
Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy.
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
For those who are on the roof become insolent as they don't know yet about the slope and the slipperiness of the roof!
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.
Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.
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.
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.
I wasn't into the lunchbox and thermos ski slope, and that's where I was going.
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.
Oakmont, you've got to be playing slope.
The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.
Virginius Pass, go across the Talus slope and pick up the route through the notch, it is steep, slippery, brutal.
Suspense combines curiosity with fear and pulls them up a rising slope.
I'm not a big fan of the George Lucas school of meddling and tinkering. That's a slippery slope.
If you are not willing to be a lone wolf, keep your truth to yourself. If you want acceptance and your truths to be spoken, it is a slippery slope.
The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope.
Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table.
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.
I have been reporting on celebrity stuff my whole career and am very aware that fame is a slippery slope.
Heaven is not gone, but we are blind with tears, Groping our way along the downward slope of Years!
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.
As reporters set aside their traditional role as fact seekers and veer into advocacy, they find themselves on a slippery journalistic slope.
The island is named Oooguruk, an Inupiaq word meaning 'bearded seal,' an animal plentiful on the shores of Alaska's North Slope.
I love skiing fast. You're going 80 to 85 m.p.h. down an icy slope, and I love it.
Celebrities might be experts when it comes to working the red carpet, but relying on them to guide your health and wellness can be a slippery slope.
The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.
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.
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.
I lived in Park Slope, which is probably one of the most homogenized areas of Brooklyn. No offense to Park Slope.
If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.
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.
I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.
I believe there's been a slippery slope of new companies that have formed in the name of on-demand services... that maybe aren't having as much of a focus as they should on the worker.
Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.
The best thing about Lord's isn't the slope, it's just being there.
There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.
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.
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 think social media is a slippery slope because while you're projecting something out to people, they also project back onto you what they want to see.
We call the slope of a line m because the word "slope" begins with the letter m.
When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.
There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.
Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.
More guns equaling more safety is a slippery slope, and what makes it so is human blood.
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