Slippery Quotes - Page 7

• There are two types of claims: those based on hard numbers and those based on slippery numbers.

  Simon Sinek

  Numbers, Two, Claims

  "Slippery Numbers" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• 'Vegetarian' is a slippery word. I don't eat cheese, I don't eat duck - the point is I'm vegan.

  Grace Slick

  Ducks, Cheese, Vegetarian

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• And I like to keep whatever is mine remaining that way. It's a funny little game to play and it's a slippery slope. I always say to myself I'm never going to give anything away because there's never any point or benefit for me.

  Kristen Stewart

  Funny, Games, Play

  "Kristen's Wedding" by Lauren Milligan, www.vogue.co.uk. October 5, 2011.

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

  Nora Roberts

  Joints, Steps, Step Up

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J. D. Robb In Death Collection”, p.102, Penguin

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

  William P. Young

  Games, Despair, Slides

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• The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Doors, Hands, Body

  H. P. Lovecraft (2007). “The Whisperer in Darkness”, p.7, Wordsworth Editions

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• The older woman waiting for admittance looked at me, then over her shoulder at Patch, who was vanishing down the hall. “Honey,” she told me, “he looks slippery as soap.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Waiting, Looks, Vanishing

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Hush, Hush”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• People don't think about the fact that when Barack Obama's parents had him it was illegal for them to be married in several states in this country. So if we start making it okay that certain people can marry and other people can't, it's a slippery slope of civil rights.

  Kerry Washington

  Country, Gay, Thinking

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• Life is slippery. Here, take my hand.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Friendship, Best Friend, Uplifting

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• Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.

  Leon Kass

  Hands, Slippery Slope, Boundaries

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

  Rob Brezsny

  Beautiful, Truth, Vagrants

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.167, Frog Books

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• Fendi on my slippers & my cookies always slippery

  Nicki Minaj

  Cookies, Slippers, Materialistic

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• Every time I jog through the world, I am awed by what I find. On a winter morning, when it seems too cold and slippery for safe jogging or bicycling, I can still go out and experience the glory of sunlight turning icy branches into strings of sparkling diamonds.

  Bernie Siegel

  Morning, Winter, Jogging

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• This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.

  Ray Comfort

  Evil, Generations, Slippery Slope

  FaceBook post by Ray Comfort from Mar 22, 2014

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

  Mark Haddon

  Stars, Sky, Sailing

  "The Red House by Mark Haddon - review" by Carol Birch, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2012.

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

  Karl Meltzer

  Notches, Brutal, Routes

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

  Betsy Sholl

  Water, Safe, Way

  Betsy Sholl (2004). “Late Psalm”, p.59, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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

  William J. Clinton

  Disgusting, Candidates

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• Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.

  Michael Bassey

  Negative, Praying, Downfall

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

  J. Robbins

  Kind, Producers, Term

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• Thoughts are slippery fish in a cold shallow stream.If you are intent on capturing a worthwhile one, you need to stand very still, focus very hard on somewhere outside yourself, and then simply ignore it until it gets so close that it tickles your ankles.Then, pounce.

  Vera Nazarian

  Focus, Needs, Ankles

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• All you have to do is pick up a baseball. It begs to you: throw me. If you took a year to design an object to hurl, you'd end up with that little spheroid small enough to nestle in your fingers but big enough to have some heft, lighter than a rock but heavier than a hunk of wood. Its even, neat stitching, laced into the leather's slippery white surface, gives your fingers a purchase. A baseball was made to throw. It's almost irresistible.

  Dave Dravecky

  Baseball, Rocks, Years

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• Time is a slippery concept, and we are often wrong about it... All too often we find ourselves looking in the right places at the wrong times.

  Frank Partnoy

  Wrong Time, Right Place, Concepts

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• On movies like Star Trek and Star Wars, you have so much that will be created or extended digitally, and it's a slippery slope where you can get lost in a world of synthetic.

  J. J. Abrams

  Stars, War, World

  "Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino, J.J. Abrams, and More Band Together to Keep Kodak Film Alive; Deal Being Struck with Studios" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. July 30, 2014.

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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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