Slippery Words Quotes

#1. 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

#2. apparently someone had diddled away their shift at the prophylactics factory and here we were. Pregnant.

Kylie Scott

#3. What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

James M. Barrie

#4. You've gotta wonder what kind of vibe you're putting out there if you're having really creepy people come talk to you.

Jorja Fox

#5. I had a very pleasant three years at Yale. I must say I did take it seriously, and consequently it took me a while to get over it.

Will Davis Campbell

#6. His words are so slippery they might slide right off the page.

Jami Attenberg

#7. Thus these politicians proceed, whilst little notice is taken of their doctrines; but when they come to be examined upon the plain meaning of their words, and the direct tendency of their doctrines, then equivocations and slippery constructions come into play.

Edmund Burke

#8. His most characteristic detective stories end with the realization that no rational account of events is possible, and his suspense stories tend to close with terror not dissipated but omnipresent, like God.
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Francis M. Nevins Jr.

#9. They [Republican voters] believe in a foreign policy that puts America first: Give me a break. And so a lot of our drift within our party has gotten away from that.

Jeff Sessions

#10. All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

George Will

#11. No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Henry Adams

#12. I've heard all sorts of things about a kiss (melting, fireworks, music), but no one ever told me it's a conversation: asking, accepting, deciding, inviting, giving ... Questions posed and answered.

Katherine Reay

#13. Don't get all sentimental on me, Makes me think I'm gonna die.

Denzel Washington

#14. What I want to tell you as you read these stories is that I both found and lost God a hundred times over. In fact, maybe I've never actually found God at all, but imagining that I have indeed found something so much larger and more beautiful than I can explain is more often enough for me.

Ashley Mae Hoiland

#15. As slippery as smooth grapes, words exploding in the light like dormant seeds waiting in the vaults of vocabulary, alive again, and giving life: once again the heart distills them.

Pablo Neruda

#16. Just as a car parked on a hill will naturally roll backward when shifted into neutral, we will naturally go the wrong way if we shift our Christian lives into neutral and stop seeking to learn and grow as believers.

Greg Laurie