Top 100 Quotes About Slippery
#1. But what's regret anyway? Regret, I am learning these days, is a lot of things. But mostly, it's a slippery seed of longing, of looking back and asking yourself why you didn't know better when the answers were so obvious all along.
Allison Winn Scotch
#2. It's not that I have no shame. Rather, I'm exhausted with shame, slippery all over with its sticky albumen taint. It is not an emotion that leads anywhere.
Lionel Shriver
#3. History is a slippery business; the past is not a constant but a landscape that mutates according to argument and opinion.
Penelope Lively
#4. The path was worn and slippery. My foot slipped from under me, knocking the other out of the way, but I recovered and said to myself, "It's a slip and not a fall.
Abraham Lincoln
#5. The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#6. But my anger was a slippery thing, like a fish I was trying to keep hold of, and it wiggled out of my grasp.
Cynthia Hand
#7. It's a shadowy world, skies are slippery grey. A woman just gave birth to a prince today and dressed him in scarlet. He'll put the priest in his pocket, put the blade to the heat, take the motherless children off the street and place them at the feet of a harlot.
Bob Dylan
#9. In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture - it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.
Jamaica Kincaid
#10. 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.
Stephen Colbert
#11. I can hear, underground, that sucking and sobbing, In my veins, in my bones I feel it,- The small water seeping upward, The tight grains parting at last. When sprouts break out, Slippery as fish, I quail, lean to beginnings, sheath-wet.
Theodore Roethke
#12. life slips out of hands, just like handful sand;does not matter how hard you press to protect it will anyhow flow out the hands.
Deepika Chamoli
#13. 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.
Barbara Kingsolver
#14. You and I both worry about what it means to put our personal libraries onto one gadget and then what would happen if we dropped it in the bathtub ...
Jason Merkoski
#15. Science may explain how humans came into being, but it has no answer to the slippery question of how humans should live. Only literature makes it possible to pose such questions in the first place. And if there is no answer, only literature can point to the impossibility of ever finding one.
Minae Mizumura
#16. Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings ... but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern.
Robert A. Heinlein
#17. This wine makes me feel like I'm bathed in amnion, breathless, fed by the motherbloodflow in the umbilical vein, fetal, slippery and tumbling over and over in the warmth of the beating womb, warm amnion, warmnion.
Samuel Shem
#18. The comfortable life is a slippery slope toward the consumer life.
Mark Sundeen
#19. Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
Earl Nightingale
#20. 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
#21. Yes, it does feel deceptively safer with two; but Thou is a slippery character. Every Thou I've known has had a way of going missing. They skip town or turn perfidious, or else the drop like flies and then where are you?
Margaret Atwood
#22. Something is broken when the food comes on a Styrofoam tray wrapped in slippery plastic, a carcass of a being whose only chance at life was a cramped cage. That is not a gift of life; it is a theft.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
#23. Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given.
Benjamin Harrison
#24. Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.
Ovid
#25. I wish nights like this weren't so fragile and slippery and impossible to nail down for study in one's leisure. But the really great nights pass through you like whispers or shadows. They shimmer, but don't adhere.
Pat Conroy
#26. Pleasure, of course, is a slippery word ... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.
Billy Collins
#27. What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#28. 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.
Cynthia Lord
#29. Changing the legal standard creates a slippery slope ... plural marriage. The court opened up a pandora's box by doing that.
Rick Santorum
#30. More guns equaling more safety is a slippery slope, and what makes it so is human blood.
Henry Rollins
#31. Everything in his life was temporary, ungrounded. Language itself had lost its solidity; it had become thin, contingent, slippery, a viscid film on which he was sliding around like an eyeball on a plate. An eyeball that could still see, however. That was the trouble.
Margaret Atwood
#32. 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
#33. Happiness is slippery, it slithers away between your fingers, but problems are something you can hold on to, they've got handles, they're rough and hard
Isabel Allende
#34. Navani!" Dalinar shouted, pulling his horse to a slippery stop across the tarp from her. "I need a miracle!"
"Working on it," she shouted back.
Brandon Sanderson
#35. I like the dry-cleaners. I like the sense of refreshment and renewal. I like the way dirty old torn clothes are dumped, to be returned clean and wholesome in their slippery transparent cases. Better than confesssion any day. Here there is a true sense of rebirth, redemption, salvation.
Fay Weldon
#36. Love is a fickle, slippery serpent that coils around its victim when they're least aware and slowly suffocates them by the token fantasy that all it promised ever really existed. Love is a big, fat, fake, and I intend to blow its cover - ironically between the covers.
Addison Moore
#37. There is a core simplicity to the English language and its American variant, but it's a slippery core.
Stephen King
#38. Truth is a slippery concept. It changes shape according to who's speaking it and it never looks the same to any two people.
Deb Baker
#39. 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
#40. My favourite pool is located in a remote valley in the eastern Lake District, surrounded by vine-hung cliffs and slippery boulders. It has a torrential sheet waterfall at one end and is almost black in colour, so it appears bottomless, a portal to nowhere.
Sarah Hall
#41. Slippery slope. I carry a spare shirt, pretty soon I'm carrying spare pants. Then I'd need a suitcase. Next thing I know, I've got a house and a car and a savings plan and I'm filling out all kinds of forms.
Lee Child
#42. 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
#43. I think we get into all kinds of difficulty by saying photographs should be taken in a certain way which guarantees their veracity. I think that's a slippery slope to hell.
Errol Morris
#44. She had touched life, played with it a little, but it is a slippery bugger, and finally we must close the door, and leave it behind. A
Rachel Joyce
#46. The indignity of it!-
With everything blooming above me,
Lilies, pale-pink cyclamen, roses,
Whole fields lovely and inviolate,-
Me down in the fetor of weeds,
Crawling on all fours,
Alive, in a slippery grave.
Theodore Roethke
#47. I say every dog looks like no other
but that isn't true. Not entirely.
Difference is slippery.
Mary Jo Bang
#48. 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
#49. I felt the slippery ooze of precum, slicking the way as Kage's cock kissed and caressed mine between our bellies. Then he rolled us over and removed my shirt. When
Maris Black
#50. Oh, in the entire path of love, the steps that lead up to sex are the most slippery, one false step and it could make man slip out of woman's favor, forever.
BS Murthy
#51. Once you begin reviewing judgment calls, which in basketball there are many, you put yourself on a very slippery slope in terms of what could be reviewed, and ultimately the number of reviews that could take place that would make it unwieldy.
Stu Jackson
#52. No fear; I like a good grip; I like to feel something in this slippery world that can hold, man.
Herman Melville
#53. Will universal health coverage lead the country (USA) down the slippery path to the dreaded European-style socialism?
James Peoples
#54. O scaly, slippery, wet, swift, staring wights, What is 't ye do? what life lead? eh, dull goggles? How do ye vary your vile days and nights? How pass your Sundays? Are ye still but joggles In ceaseless wash? Still nought but gapes and bites, And drinks, and stares, diversified with boggles.
Leigh Hunt
#55. I do identify the escape hatch through which Foucault eludes the charge that he himself is an author/authority, hence a tyrant. He establishes the category of "founder of discursivity" for the authors he likes. Slippery, perhaps, but you can see what he means.
Paul Fry
#56. Memory is a slippery thing. When something terrible happens to you, like the loss of someone you love ... memory can turn into a soft blanket that hides you from the loss.
Kathi Appelt
#57. 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
#58. Subjugation requires vigilance; if you relax your brutality even for a moment, the people you're oppressing will revolt at the first sign of weakness. That's why dictatorial regimes are always a slippery slope of cruelty doomed to end in failure.
Nenia Campbell
#59. Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky.
Mark Haddon
#60. In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is
Robert Herrick
#61. Simmy entertained slippery thoughts about identity and the meaning of any individual's span on earth. When it came right down to it, she supposed that all a person really amounted to was the sum of their memories.
Rebecca Tope
#62. I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.
Michelle Shocked
#63. Introverts feel "just right" with less stimulation, as when they sip wine with a close friend, solve a crossword puzzle, or read a book. Extroverts enjoy the extra bang that comes from activities like meeting new people, skiing slippery slopes, and cranking up the stereo.
Susan Cain
#64. Legalizing homosexuality is not the first step on a slippery slope to legalizing everything.
Jonathan Haidt
#65. Down they went, into the darkness. Down ancient, worn steps coated in slippery mildew. Down into the deep recesses of the earth, far beneath the corridors of Deep-Spire.
Sam J. Charlton
#66. Love is a slippery slope and it's so easy to fall.
Sara Humphreys
#67. I promise to be as careful as a pussycat walking up a slippery roof,
Carolyn Keene
#68. Kaye watched as he calmed somewhat, thinking that she should stop trying to anticipate what was going to happen next. After all, when you were already in a slippery place, reality-wise, you couldn't afford to assume things would be straight forward from here on in.
Holly Black
#69. Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
Ambrose Bierce
#70. As we follow Christ in the counsel of the Holy Spirit, resting in the love of our Abba, we no longer fear
for there is no fear in love. We do not fear slippery slopes, we do not fear each other, we do not fear change, and we do not fear our own selves or what other people can do to us.
Sarah Bessey
#71. It is clear enough by now to most people that the camera never lies is a foolish saying. Yet it is doubtful whether most people realize how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is.
James Agee
#72. He has always been a slippery little git!
(on Joe Cole)
Rio Ferdinand
#73. Still, I may have been glad to scratch the dry surface of our day-to-day peaceableness the way Violetta had clawed the sere crust on her limbs, anything to get something bright and liquid flowing again, out in the open and slippery between our fingers.
Lionel Shriver
#74. May, said Dany. That was such a slippery word, may. In any language.
George R R Martin
#75. The thing about Sarah was, she always did what I wanted her to do. Always. And that was because she was me, and I was her. She never disappointed me. She always showed up. Wyatt disappointed me precisely because he was real. He was a real boy who could not climb my tower in the slippery rain.
Alex Flinn
#76. Don't fall in love because it is slippery, fall in love to find yourself.
Debasish Mridha
#77. Trevor, let's go upstairs and take a really hot bath with extra bubbles so that my skin gets all sudsy and slippery so you can run your incredibly gifted naughty hands over me while we see how many times you can make me come before the water gets cold
R.L. Mathewson
#79. Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.
Robert Jordan
#80. If you are ignorant enough, you can walk like a cat on the slippery roof-ridge of danger.
Austin O'Malley
#81. That's the thing about slippery slopes. Take that first step, and the next thing you know, you've completed a jerk-off hat trick to your bestie.
Lauren Blakely
#82. A slippery fish, flashing scales in the water and a noble fighter on the line, but dull as lead at the bottom of the boat.
Michael David Lukas
#83. It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair.
Wm. Paul Young
#84. The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning.
David Baltimore
#85. Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.
Norman Mailer
#86. Users of slippery slope arguments should take skiing lessons - you really can choose to stop.
Nigel Warburton
#87. Annabeth hit a slippery patch of moss and her foot slipped. Fortunately, she found something else to put it against. Unfortunately, that something was my face.
Rick Riordan
#88. Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.
Cynthia Heimel
#89. It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.
Thomas Harris
#90. Until kids decide, 'I am a miracle. I am unique. There is no one else exactly like me,' they can never draw the conclusion, 'Because I'm a miracle, I will never harm another person who's a miracle like me.' In this slippery world, they all need something to hang on to.
Marva Collins
#91. Memory was a slippery thing - slick moss on an unstable slope - and it was ever so easy to lose one's footing and fall
Kelly Barnhill
#92. She devoutly put away in her drawers her beautiful dress, down to the satin shoes whose soles were yellowed with the slippery wax of the dancing floor. Her heart was like these. In its friction against wealth something had come over it that could not be effaced.
Gustave Flaubert
#93. 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.
Alan K. Simpson
#94. 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
#95. I think you've got to be very, very careful when you start making blanket statements about what people say and think, as opposed to what they do. It's a very, very slippery slope.
Mark Cuban
#96. 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
#97. The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass ... Wet grass is slippery.
Greg Maddux
#98. The dumbest thing one could ever do is to hold on to something that is slippery
Angel Phetheni
#99. As if on cue, Fiona appeared in another of the ballroom's multiple doorways. 'Beatrice! Oliver! How many times have I told you no skating in the house? I just had these floors refinished.'
'So that's why it's extra slippery today,' mused Oliver. 'Cool.
Jennifer Sturman
#100. I love my daughter. She and I have shared my body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since.
Amy Tan
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