Cusp Quotes

• This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath.

  Margaret Atwood

  Letting Go, Past, Years

  Margaret Atwood (2015). “Morning in the Burned House”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you're just addressing your own emotions and challenging yourself to find some sort of harmonious sense of being in life and questioning authority and questioning what's given and questioning what's expected of you, you're already on the cusp of finding something in yourself, and maybe waking something in somebody else.

  Saul Williams

  Challenges, Waking, Emotion

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

  Sean Parker

  Real, Imagination, Entrepreneur

  Facebook: Sean Parker, www.facebook.com.

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• We're getting close to making our vision a reality. It's exciting to be on the cusp of opening our doors to the public. We're right on schedule.

  James K. Coyne, III

  Reality, Doors, Vision

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• The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.

  Steven Levy

  World, Revolution, Dramatic

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• I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.

  Audre Lorde

  Change, Curves, Shifting

  Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: And Other Essays”, p.120, Courier Dover Publications

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• We are on the cusp of the emergence of a company of hidden men and women who with all faith and patience have been enduring great struggles and dealings, being processed by the Lord and filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ. These are not those who seek a reputation for themselves, their passion is His glory and giving Him the church He has longed for. May God grant us all the heart of apostolic fathering and mothering that can release His power in the earth. Zion is once again in travail to bring forth her children.

  Mark Chironna

  Children, Struggle, Passion

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• We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut."

  Lawrence Lessig

  Nuts, Atheism, Citizens

  "One Planet, One Net" symposium, October 10, 1998.

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• For most of human history, we could only watch, like bystanders, the beautiful dance of Nature. But today, we are on the cusp of an epoch-making transition, from being passive observers of Nature to being active choreographers of Nature. The Age of Discovery in science is coming to a close, opening up an Age of Mastery.

  Michio Kaku

  Beautiful, Science, Bystanders

  Michio Kaku (1999). “Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century”, p.5, Oxford Paperbacks

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• You can be on the cusp of something.  Appreciate the cusp, not the something.  Appreciate this moment now.

  Ernest Holmes

  Appreciate, Moments

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• It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.

  Jodi Picoult

  Girl, May, Want

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “My Sister's Keeper”, p.480, Simon and Schuster

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• We live on the cusp of death
  Thinking it won't be us

  Macklemore

  Rap, Thinking

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• The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. (OK, it doesn't take a genius, or even a politician, to figure out that big changes are afoot when we have a medium that lets someone throw up a virtual storefront on the Web and instantly gain access to the global market.)

  Steven Levy

  Genius, World, Gains

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• Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.

  Gilbert Adair

  Past, Principles, Batteries

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• My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Brother, Father, Rocks

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• he challenge is finding the modern conduit for the audience, having fun and really looking at the duality of this particular character, that is both devil and angel, and on the cusp of losing control of the pagan background, to this newfangled religion called Christianity. There's a great backdrop there, and just a whole dark side with the magic.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Fun, Character, Angel

  "Joseph Fiennes, Tamsin Egerton & Exec. Producer Chris Chibnall Interview CAMELOT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 1, 2011.

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• Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of economics and psychology.

  Evan Davis

  Psychology, Hot, Topics

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• I recently lost 50 pounds. I'm hovering on the cusp of a size eight, which seems unbelievable.

  Kathy Najimy

  Eight, Hovering, Size

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• A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.

  Jane Smiley

  Novelists, Knows

  Jane Smiley (2008). “13 Ways of Looking at the Novel”, p.46, Anchor

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• We in our present generation stand on the cusp of a new and glorious dawn when mastery of these energies lies fully within our grasp as secret yields to inquiry, which yields to experimentation, which leads to verification and duplication, which, in the final course, leads to knowledge.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Lying, Yield, Secret

  "The Skin Map". Book by Stephen R. Lawhead, 2010.

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• I always want to be on the cusp of being in the best shape that I can be. What I'm discovering is that the older you get, the more work you have to do to stay there.

  Michelle Obama

  Shapes, Want, Discovering

  "Michelle Obama's Rules for Staying Healthy and Happy". Interview with Liz Vaccariello, www.prevention.com. November 3, 2011.

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• She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches where most people never had the guts to go, where you got hurt. Where there was unimaginable beauty and pain ... They were always reminding themselves to stop measuring life in coffee spoons, mornings and afternoons, to keep swimming way, way down to the bottom of the ocean to find where the mermaids sang, each to each. Where there was danger and beauty and light. Only the now.

  Marisha Pessl

  Hurt, Morning, Pain

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• His coworker was velvety-skinned, a sexy boy-on-the-cusp-of man.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Sexy, Boys, Men

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Fever Series 5-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever”, p.368, Dell

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• What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Humanity, Renaissance, May

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• Milk which is just about to turn is akin to that moment spent on the cusp of failure in a dulled and fettered relationship.

  Matt Roper

  Milk, Moments, That Moment

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