Slipperier Than Quotes & Sayings

What's more important that spiritual life? It seems to me it's the bedrock of everything essential about being human. — Dani Shapiro

The tyranny of the quantifiable is partly the failure of language and discourse to describe more complex, subtle, and fluid phenomena, as well as the failure of those who shape opinions and make decisions to understand and value these slipperier things. It is difficult, sometimes even impossible, to value what cannot be named or described, and so the task of naming and describing is an essential one in any revolt against the status quo of capitalism and consumerism. — Rebecca Solnit

They start again as children - all together. It is what the Composer was designed to prevent. — Greg Bear

Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things. They identify the wrong people. They give us the details of events that never happened. Memory is slippery, but my memories suddenly feel slipperier. — Holly Black

I'm a romantic and will only marry for love where there's respect and compatibility. I'd like to be with someone if the right person came along. I really like male company. I like the male mind. — Cherie Lunghi

It gets quite difficult for me when I listen to pop music. I don't often understand the words, but when someone translates them to me, I think, 'What is this song representing? That women are just there to be treated like objects?' — Malala Yousafzai

We want to promote people-to-people exchanges so that China and the United States can really join together, not just to solve the problems of China or the United States, but some of the big problems facing the entire world. From climate change to famine to even terrorism. — Gary Locke

But I knew that, both in fairyland and the real world, too, wishes were a slipperier things. — Karen Joy Fowler

The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience - shocking though it may seem at the time - is an enrichment, even a blessing, one of the life-altering trophies of the road. — Paul Theroux

Despair is the inevitable hopelessness of life without light. — Jim Berg

What is one small step I could take to improve my health (or relationships, or career, or any other area)? — Robert Maurer

The psychic world is a dimensional plane that you can gain access to. It is a dimension of feeling and clear seeing. — Frederick Lenz

I never thought Hollywood is the life I want to do. I thought acting is the life I want to do. — Shailene Woodley

I made a lot of exits through side doors, down fire escapes or over rooftops. I abandoned more wardrobes in the course of five years than most men acquire in a lifetime. I was slipperier than a buttered escargot. — Frank Abagnale

Analogy is even slipperier than logic. — Robert A. Heinlein