Slipperier Than A Quotes & Sayings

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

Plan your work, then work your plan! — P.G. Allison

To many of my liberal and atheist friends and colleagues, an explanation for religious beliefs such as what I have presented in this book is tantamount to discounting both its internal validity and its external reality. Many of my conservative and theist friends and colleagues take it this way as well and therefore bristle at the thought that explaining a belief explains it away. This is not necessarily so. Explaining why someone believes in democracy does not explain away democracy; explaining why someone who holds liberal or conservative values within a democracy does not explain away those values. — Michael Shermer

Gay people got a right to be as miserable as everyone else. — Chris Rock

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

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

It may take months or years for a wish to come true, but it's far more likely to happen when you care so much about a wish that you'll do all you can to make it happen. — Fred Rogers

Every seed carries in itself the ability for multiplication. — Sunday Adelaja

I might be an ambassador. — Steven Gerrard

He puts us here to make an eternal difference.
He puts us here to show everyone around us how much He loves them.
He puts us here to be His hands and feet, His body and His heart. — Craig Groeschel

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