quotes about Slippery Slope
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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.
-- Elizabeth Borton de TrevinoSource : Elizabeth Borton de Treviño, Prentice Hall PTR, Prentice-Hall, inc (2000). “I, Juan de Pareja”
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So all you want is a kiss?" I asked. A little voice in my head said I was heading for one of those slippery slopes. I told the little voice to shut up. "Well, maybe more than one. But basically, yeah.
-- Jenna BlackSource : Jenna Black (2010). “Glimmerglass: A Faeriewalker Novel”, p.120, Macmillan
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Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.
-- Leon Kass -
I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.
-- Michelle Shocked -
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Heed the spark or you may dread the fire ...
-- Miles FranklinSource : Miles Franklin (2014). “Some Everyday Folk and Dawn”, p.81, Simon and Schuster
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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.
-- Ray ComfortSource : FaceBook post by Ray Comfort from Mar 22, 2014
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Changing the legal standard creates a slippery slope...plural marriage. The court opened up a pandora's box by doing that.
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You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other.
-- Stella BensonSource : Stella Benson (1924). “Pipers and a dancer”
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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.
-- Stephen Colbert -
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.
-- Stu Jackson -
Never bend the rules. You bend the rules a little bit and then it's a slippery slope.
-- Thomas Peterffy -
If wrong decisions, both from a governance perspective and ethics, happen, this is a slippery slope that we will go down. Unless and until you recognise this, you will not take the right decisions.
-- Cyrus Pallonji MistrySource : Source: zeenews.india.com
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Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.
-- Anne CampbellSource : Anne Campbell (1993). “Men, women, and aggression”, Basic Books
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Any departure from fact is the first step on a slippery slope toward unbelievability.
-- William A. Henry III