Slippery Quotes - Page 4

• The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass... Wet grass is slippery

  Greg Maddux

  Sports, Dirt, Grass

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• You can't exceed the system with language.  You can only exceed the system with events; recommended procedures that are better.  You can't exceed the system by telling people to be good, be kind, be considerate...  You have to take away the conditions that makes it necessary for you to be kind.  And to be kind, you design highways that aren't slippery; where no accidents, or less accidents, occur.  In the future, everybody becomes an innovator - a creator.

  Jacque Fresco

  People, Design, Events

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• The road conditions are so variable here, there is ice, snow and everything in between. But a podium finish is a definite possibility if we stay smooth and adjust to the slippery conditions.

  Ken Block

  Ice, Snow, Variables

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• I basically don't think that the way we do things is that dependent on one resource, such as oil. There can be different kinds of engines for cars. I think that solar heating, wind heating can substitute for a lot of uses for oil. I'd like to see those things happen because they are more sustainable in any case. But I do not think that running out of oil is not going to bother us that much. I think we have got to be rescued by something or we really are going down a slippery slope.

  Jane Jacobs

  Running, Thinking, Wind

  Interview with James Kunstler for Metropolis Magazine, March 2001.

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• If wrong decisions, both from a governance perspective and ethics, happen, this is a slippery slope that we will go down. Unless and until you recognise this, you will not take the right decisions.

  Cyrus Pallonji Mistry

  Perspective, Decision, Slippery Slope

  Source: zeenews.india.com

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• Every politician, every president gets votes by getting people that don't like him to like him. That's why politicians are slippery: because they talk out of both sides of their mouth.

  Henry Rollins

  People, President, Mouths

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• A Christian home! What a power it is to the child when he is far away in the cold, tempting world, and voices of sin are filling his ears, and his feet stand on slippery places.

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Christian, Children, Home

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 324, 1895.

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

  Austin O'Malley

  Cat, Ignorant, Enough

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• The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse.

  Francis Bacon

  Pain, Men, Rising

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Great Place'

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

  Naomi Klein

  Different, Kind, Economy

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. August 12, 2008.

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• 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.

  John Barth

  Mistake, Coaching, Needs

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• The higher the trail the steeper it grows Ten thousand tiers of dangerous cliffs The stone bridge is slippery with green moss Cloud after cloud keeps flying by Waterfalls hang like ribbons of silk The moon shines down on the bright pool I climb the highest peak once more To wait where the lone crane flies

  Hanshan

  Moon, Clouds, Bridges

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

  Andre Breton

  God, Religious, Shady

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• Legalizing homosexuality is not the first step on a slippery slope to legalizing everything.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Slippery Slope, Firsts, Steps

  Interview with Tamler Sommers, www.believermag.com. August 2005.

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• Most of us hide behind egocentric biases that generate the illusion that we are special. These self-serving protective shields allow us to believe that each of us is above average on any test of self-integrity. Too often we look to the stars through the thick lens of personal invulnerability when we should also look down to the slippery slope beneath our feet.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Stars, Integrity, Believe

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• Even in the slippery blur of heat and arms and noise, Lena affected everything in her wake, a pull as powerful as the moon to the tides, or the planets to the sun. I was caught in her orbit, even as she pulled away from mine.

  Kami Garcia

  Powerful, Moon, Orbit

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• So all you want is a kiss?" I asked. A little voice in my head said I was heading for one of those slippery slopes. I told the little voice to shut up. "Well, maybe more than one. But basically, yeah.

  Jenna Black

  Kissing, Voice, Want

  Jenna Black (2010). “Glimmerglass: A Faeriewalker Novel”, p.120, Macmillan

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

  Thomas Harris

  Book, Lust, Hives

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.146, Macmillan

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• You see, I want a lot. Perhaps I want everything the darkness that comes with every infinite fall and the shivering blaze of every step up. So many live on and want nothing And are raised to the rank of prince By the slippery ease of their light judgments But what you love to see are faces that do work and feel thirst. You love most of all those who need you as they need a crowbar or a hoe. You have not grown old, and it is not too late To dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out its own secret.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fall, Light, Hoe

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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• Love, from its awful throne of patient power
  In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour
  Of dread endurance, from the slippery, steep,
  And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs
  And folds over the world its healing wings.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Wise, Spring

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley (1855). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: In Three Volumes”, p.441

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• Slippery stages were the terror of my life.

  Fred Astaire

  Dance, Stage, Terror

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• Is hockey hard? I don't know, you tell me. We need to have the strength and power of a football player, the stamina of a marathon runner, and the concentration of a brain surgeon. But we need to put all this together while moving at high speeds on a cold and slippery surface while 5 other guys use clubs to try and kill us. Oh yeah, did I mention that this whole time we're standing on blades 1/8 of an inch thick? Is ice hockey hard? I don't know, you tell me. Next question.

  Brendan Shanahan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• For reasons not always at the time explicable, there are specific occasions when events begin suddenly to take on a significance previously unsuspected, so that, before we really know where we are, life seems to have begun in earnest at last, and we ourselves, scarcely aware that any change has taken place, are careering uncontrollably down the slippery avenues of eternity.

  Anthony Powell

  Taken, Lasts, Events

  Anthony Powell (1995). “A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement”, p.274, University of Chicago Press

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• The trouble with talking about irony is, it's such a slippery thing that the second you start talking about it, you're a better example of it than you are an analyst.

  Daniel Handler

  Talking, Example, Irony

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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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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