#slipper

You stick a bunch of drunken murderers together, ain't long before some turn to thieving, then to lying, then to bad language, and pretty soon to sobriety, raising families and making an honest living. ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#satire #slippery-slope #family

Thoughts are slippery fish in a cold shallow stream. If you are intent on capturing a worthwhile one, you need to stand very still, focus very hard on somewhere outside yourself, and then simply ignore it until it gets so close that it tickles your ankles. Then, pounce. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#slippery #stream #thoughts #inspirational

Learning how to love is like learning how to tie your shoes, and that’s precisely why I wear slippers. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#learning #love #shoes #slippers #love

Love is like trying to wrestle an albino. It’s tough because they’re slippery and all lubed up with sunscreen.
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— Jarod Kintz

#albino #love #lube #slip #slippery

...if it weren't for you, mornings wouldn't be so comforting - slippers wouldn't scrape through the rooms of my heart... ↗

— John Geddes

#heart #love #mornings #poetry-quotes #rooms

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#anoint #grease #great #king #other

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun. ↗

— John Dryden

#betray #cannot #dangers #does #footing

People don't think about the fact that when Barack Obama's parents had him - it was illegal for them to be married in several states in this country. So if we start making it okay that certain people can marry and other people can't, it's a slippery slope of civil rights. Who knows who is going to be allowed to marry or not marry next. ↗

— Kerry Washington

#allowed #barack #certain #civil #civil rights

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#cushioned #evenings #feet #home #love

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot. ↗

— John Bunyan

#foot #golden #minds #more #our