Skating On Thin Ice Quotes

• 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.

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  Jostein Gaarder

  Skating On Thin Ice   Water   Pirouettes  

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “The Ringmaster's Daughter”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• 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.

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  Pete Domenici

  Country   Hockey   Reality  

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• Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

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  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational   Truth   Honesty  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.165, Harvard University Press

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• 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.

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  Will Rogers

  Country   Wall   Fall  

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• Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.

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  Mrs. Patrick Campbell

  Skating On Thin Ice   Want   Break  

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• 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.

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  Zygmunt Bauman

  Skating On Thin Ice   World   Flu  

  "Modern lover". www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2005.

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• In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

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  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational   Fear   Failure  

  Essays "Prudence" (1841)

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• If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.

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  Anita Shreve

  Dance   Skating On Thin Ice   Might  

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