Standing On The Edge Quotes

• I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Want, Kind, Player Piano

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Oct 01, 2012

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• So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Courage, Badass, Military

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• I kept picturing all these little kids in this big field of rye... If they're running and they don't look where they're going, I have to come out from somewhere and catch them.

  J. D. Salinger

  Running, Inspiration, Kids

  'The Catcher in the Rye' (1951) ch. 22.

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• I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.

  J. D. Salinger

  Crazy, Catchers, Holden

  Catcher in the Rye (1951) ch. 22

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• It is not the critic who counts

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Courage, Military, Failure

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• I'm so tired, but I can't sleep. Standing on the edge of something much too deep.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Tired, Sleep, Insomnia

  "Song: 'I Will Remember You'". 1995.

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• There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Dream, Hair

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1819, Delphi Classics

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• I'm always standing on the edge of something bad.

  David Levithan

  Standing, Edges

  "Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story". Book by David Levithan, March 17, 2015.

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• If you want to be rich, you need to develop your vision. You must be standing on the edge of time gazing into the future.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Inspire, Vision

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• Photography is all about capturing a mood, a feeling. I feel a special connection with nature, often very powerful. This late afternoon was phenomenal. Standing on the edge of the ocean, I gasped in awe as the holy light illuminated this cathedral window. Witnessing such a moment and capturing it is what I live for. Mother Nature is so powerful, I never underestimate Her.

  Peter Lik

  Photography, Mother, Nature

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• It's like standing on the edge of a cliff. This is especially true of the first draft. Every day you're making up the earth you're going to stand on.

  Peter Carey

  Earth, Cliffs, Firsts

  FaceBook post by Peter Carey from Oct 29, 2012

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• When you move the camera, or you do a shot like the crane down (in Shawshank) with them standing on the edge of the roof, then it's got to mean something. You've got to know why you're doing it; it's got to be for a reason within the story, and to further the story.

  Roger Deakins

  Movie, Moving, Mean

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• Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.

  Billy Collins

  Moon, Night, Lakes

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• We're standing on the edge of a new frontier.

  Anthony Griffin

  New Frontiers, Edges, Standing

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• Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.

  J. D. Salinger

  Running, Hope, Crazy

  Catcher in the Rye (1951) ch. 22

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• The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon and contemplating your own greatness is pathological. At such moments we are made for a magnificent joy that comes from outside ourselves.

  John Piper

  Greatness, Self, Joy

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• Long ago, men went to sea, and women waited for them, standing on the edge of the water, scanning the horizon for the tiny ship. Now I wait for Henry. He vanishes unwillingly, without warning. I wait for him. Each moment that I wait feels like a year, an eternity. Each moment is as slow and transparent as glass. Through each moment I can see infinite moments lined up, waiting. Why has he gone where I cannot follow?

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Men, Glasses, Long Ago

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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