Slippery Quotes

“Thoughts are slippery fish in a cold shallow s”

“What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.”

“His words are so slippery they might slide right off the page.”

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

“Shift yourself away from the slippery ground of bad attitudes and you’ll not drift off!”

“I don't know if this deception qualified as a half-step down the slippery slope. I had no sensation of sliding. But of course we never notice the descent until we're rocketing along at high velocity.”

“Leaders don't climb hills of success with shoes of pride. They are slippery enough to bring a person down to the valley.”

“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.”

“Resentment is a powerful and corrosive force, both on the slippery left and the slippery right, and the history of humankind can largely be read as a history of resentment. Aside from a profound philosophy of capital, what we really need is a profound psychology and philosophy of resentment. We must learn to live for ourselves, without reference to the other, and, at the same time, to rise above and beyond ourselves. Or else history will keep repeating itself, and our life will be a living death.”