#slip

I think an athlete should be honest. I know it's difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn't very well say, I slipped. ↗

— Sugar Ray Leonard

#difficult #guy #honest #i #i think

The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#always #been #before #behind #catching

Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table. ↗

— Dennis Ross

#europeans #many #sanctions #slippery #slippery slope

The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass... Wet grass is slippery. ↗

— Greg Maddux

#grass #hit #ok #once #slippery

When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace. ↗

— John McCarthy

#i #i see #instinct #see #slippery

The American Dream may be slipping away. We have overcome such challenges before. To recover the Dream requires knowing where it came from, how it lasted so long and why it matters so much. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#american dream #away #before #came #challenges

I had a one day slip, Matt. So what do you do? You get up and you go on, and you try not to do it again. ↗

— Liza Minnelli

#day #get #go #had #i

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. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#bath #communal #group #hairy #i

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. ↗

— Earl Nightingale

#bedside #before #best #during #elusive

In the past, I often found that when I reached out for a fast cure it led me down a slippery slope of more medications, hopeful dependence on the next prescription and ultimately a much longer drawn-out illness. ↗

— Carre Otis

#dependence #down #fast #found #hopeful