Slippery Quotes

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.

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

And biblically, again, I'm going to go right back to my fundamental Christian beliefs marriage is between one man and one woman.

Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope.

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.

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.

I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's like a slippery slope - once you start you pull one thing one way and then you think, 'Oh my God, I've got to do the other side.'

It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.

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.

Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth.

Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.

I think it's a slippery slope to fabricate a different life.

I was like many another who starts an intrigue timidly. Once into it, I had to go on, and therefore I had to harden my sensibilities.

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

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

It's so easy to begin to demonize someone you think is so far removed and as the demonization begins to expand, it ends up being everybody but your friends. After a while everybody else but you. That is a slippery slope that is so easy to slide down, and that's what is dangerous.

Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.

there is nothing so uncertain and slippery as fact.

He has always been a slippery little git! (on Joe Cole)

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

Changing the legal standard creates a slippery slope...plural marriage. The court opened up a pandora's box by doing that.

The aphorism is a slippery plaything.

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.