Quotes & Sayings About Skating On Thin Ice

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. — Franklin P. Jones

Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to this country's energy concentrations on the Gulf Coast. — Pete Domenici

When you grow up in the saddest chapter of someone else's story, you're forever skating on the thin ice of their memories. — Carys Bray

If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance! — Laurie Strongin

The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal Reserve Bank raises or lowers the amount of interest. Any business that can't survive a one percent change must be skating on thin ice.
Why even the poor farmer took a raise of another ten percent just to get a loan from the bank, and nobody from the government paid any attention. But you let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help to get them back into bed again. — Will Rogers

Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis. — Zygmunt Bauman

In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks. — Mrs. Patrick Campbell

It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes on a brittle crust over water thousands of fathoms deep. — Jostein Gaarder

There's always that first step in skating, from dry ground to slick ice, when it just seems impossible. Impossible that two thin blades of metal will support you, impossible that because its molecules have begun to dance a little slower water will hold you up. — Carol Goodman