Quotes of: Slippery-slope Keyword

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

Thomas Peterffy

When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.

John McCarthy

Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table.

Dennis Ross

More guns equaling more safety is a slippery slope, and what makes it so is human blood.

Henry Rollins

The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope.

Gever Tulley

The moral high ground to which I aspired had turned into a slippery slope.

The Counterfeit Murder in the Museum of Man

I think everyone's parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them.

The Slippery Slope

For Beatrice, when we first met, I was lonely, and you were pretty. Now I am pretty lonely.

The Slippery Slope

It is easy to decide on what is wrong to wear to a party, such as deep-sea diving equipment or a pair of large pillows, but deciding what is right is much trickier.

The Slippery Slope

Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

The Slippery Slope

It does bear emphasis that slippery-slope arguments are notoriously invalid.

Jerry A. Fodor

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

Michelle Shocked

It is always tedious when someone tells you that if you don't stop crying, they will give you something to cry about, because if you are crying then you already have something to cry about, and so there is no reason for them to give you anything addi...

The Slippery Slope

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

Leon Kass

And if you get caught up in combing the Internet for what people think of you or how people perceive you, I think that's a slippery slope.

Adam Scott

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

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

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

I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.

Barbara Lee

I'm jealous of your hooks," Kevin replied. "Having no hands is better than having two equally strong hands." Don't be ridiculous," one of the white-faced women replied. "Having a white face is worse than both of your situations." But you have a white...

The Slippery Slope

Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

Père Goriot