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The aphorism is a slippery plaything.
Alas! the slippery nature of tender youth.
Slippery stages were the terror of my life.
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.
When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.
The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass... Wet grass is slippery.
Civilisation is slippery, the word has multiple and contested meanings.
Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope.
Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
More guns equaling more safety is a slippery slope, and what makes it so is human blood.
The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.
What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
'Vegetarian' is a slippery word. I don't eat cheese, I don't eat duck - the point is I'm vegan.
There are two types of claims: those based on hard numbers and those based on slippery numbers.
I'm not a big fan of the George Lucas school of meddling and tinkering. That's a slippery slope.
One cheat meal is fine, but keep it at one, because if you do another, then it's a slippery slope.
I mean, happiness is a slippery thing. What makes you happy one day can make you miserable the next.
The Volkswagen Group has proved that it can remain firmly on track even when the terrain is slippery.
It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.
Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.
The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope.
I have been reporting on celebrity stuff my whole career and am very aware that fame is a slippery slope.
I think 'Slippery When Wet' was the turning point, where our records represent our energy that we do live.
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.
It's hard to get out of the barrel. It's slippery around the edges and people are happy to see you fall back in.
Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table.
If you have your own money, you feel entitled to spending your own money how you'd like to, and that's a slippery slope.
When you get on to fresh grass courts you always know that they might be a bit slippery but you have to adjust accordingly.
Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.
Children's literature - the product of adult guesswork - often fails to account for its audience's slippery grasp on the world.
You certainly miss a lot of things about Indianapolis. I miss a lot of friends in Indy. St. Elmo's. The Slippery Noodle. Amalfi's.
Well, love is a difficult thing to hold on to. It's a slippery little beast. It will hold you and then it will elude you at any moment.
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.
As reporters set aside their traditional role as fact seekers and veer into advocacy, they find themselves on a slippery journalistic slope.
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.
I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything.
If you are not willing to be a lone wolf, keep your truth to yourself. If you want acceptance and your truths to be spoken, it is a slippery slope.
Celebrities might be experts when it comes to working the red carpet, but relying on them to guide your health and wellness can be a slippery slope.
I think social media is a slippery slope because while you're projecting something out to people, they also project back onto you what they want to see.
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.
If you are a plumber, there is an objective way to establish whether you put together a great piping system or not. Art is a bit more slippery than that.
There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.
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.
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.
I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.
Hit songs are mysterious and slippery beasts; few artists have a lock on them. This means that many people, like me, have become fans of songs rather than fans of artists.