Verge Quotes - Page 6

• It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing, watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces.

  Lewis Thomas

  Health, Pieces, Flapping

  Lewis Thomas (1972*). “Aspects of Biomedical Science Policy”, p.3, National Academies

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• The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth.

  Augustus William Hare

  Liars, Lying, Mischievous

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.160

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• [I]n constitutional adjudication some steps, which when taken were thought to approach 'the verge,' have become the platform for yet further steps. A certain momentum develops in constitutional theory and it can be a 'downhill thrust' easily set in motion but difficult to retard or stop.

  Warren E. Burger

  Taken, Church, Steps

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• Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the mid-'60s, I had great songwriters; we wrote some great stuff.

  Pete Best

  America, Band, Stuff

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• I'm on the verge of suicide, so what's murder?

  Bushwick Bill

  Suicide, Evil, Murder

  Song: Wha Cha Gonna Do?, Album: Phantom of the Rapra

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• I think, that a man never passes the verge of moral humility, till self-righteousness be dethroned, till the high and towering imaginations of the man's own righteousness by the law be levelled by the mighty weapons of the gospel, and he brought to submit to the righteousness of God for justification, which is, in the gospel revealed 'from faith to faith.'

  Ebenezer Erskine

  Humility, Men, Thinking

  Ebenezer Erskine, Donald Fraser (1836). “The Whole Works of the Rev. Ebenezer Erskine, Minister of the Gospel at Stirling: Consisting of Sermons and Discourses, on Important and Interesting Subjects. To which is Added, an Enlarged Memoir of the Author, by D. Fraser”, p.166

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• I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. I tried the raw food vegan diet. And I tried the calorie restriction diet, which is the idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time. Whether or not you want to, of course, is the idea.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Ideas, Long, Meat

  "Self-Improver A.J. Jacobs Takes On Getting 'Healthy'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. April 5, 2012.

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• When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.

  Felicity Kendal

  Special, Littles, Anticipation

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• I remember in 2000, when President Clinton came to Cartagena just before Plan Colombia started, the country was on the verge of becoming a failed state. Today, we are one of the most solid democracies, where institutions are working, where the scandals such as false positives have come to light because of those functioning institutions.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Country, Light, President

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• The thousand petal lotus of light, the crown center, really does not become operative until one is on the verge of enlightenment itself. Then you really don't have to meditate on it. The thousand petals gradually light up.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Doe

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• Future is mobile computing - smartphones and tablets are just elements of it. The industry is on the verge of a whole new paradigm.

  Thorsten Heins

  Smartphones, Elements, Tablets

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• There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything.

  Dan Chaon

  Adventure, Car, Lure

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• In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics. Now, on the contrary, I enjoy life; I might almost say that with every year that passes I enjoy it more.

  Bertrand Russell

  Suicide, Years, Enjoy Life

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.7, Lulu Press, Inc

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• When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something.

  Pema Chodron

  Frustration, Might, Realizing

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.10, Shambhala Publications

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• What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Animal, Different, Extinction

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• The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction in and by its very effort to transcribe visual appearance with ever greater fidelity.

  Clement Greenberg

  Effort, Cezanne, Evolution

  "Art and Culture: Critical Essays". Book by Clement Greenberg, "On the Role of Nature in Modernist Painting" (1949), p. 171, 1961.

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• This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.

  Charles Gounod

  Music, Ocean, Serenity

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• It's not an exaggeration to say that we're on the verge of a meltdown.

  John Hart

  Meltdowns, Exaggeration

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• We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent have already been destroyed, and not replaced, and other vast areas are on the verge of destruction. Yet forests, unlike mines, can be so handled as to yield the best results of use, without exhaustion, just like grain fields.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Science, Land, Yield

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• You're missing it. This is not a one-man show. What's reinvigorating this company is two things: One, there's a lot of really talented people in this company who listened to the world tell them they were losers for a couple of years, and some of them were on the verge of starting to believe it themselves. But they're not losers. What they didn't have was a good set of coaches, a good plan. A good senior management team. But they have that now.

  Steve Jobs

  Senior, Business, Couple

  "Steve Jobs: `There's Sanity Returning'". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. May 23, 1998.

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• Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school.

  Will Rogers

  Girl, Mother, Wisdom

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• Today the influences of your society pressure you to be successful before your time. They are pulling you down. They have pulled you down, you big, sweet, magnificent, young, potential artists. They have pulled you down so far that you are on the verge of destruction. Only you don't know it because you want to be a success

  Stella Adler

  Sweet, Successful, Artist

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.15, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• You never think you're on the verge of disaster while you're looking over the edge yourself. It's your friends and family who are trying to get you to stop destroying yourself and after a while it kind of sank in and I just cleaned up my act.

  Johnny Depp

  Thinking, Alcohol, Drug

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• The darkness is not so dense as it was; there are faint streaks on the horizon's verge; mist is in the valleys, but there is a radiance on the distant hill. It comes nearer--that promise of the day. The clouds roll rapidly away, and they are fringed with amber and gold. It is, it is the blest sunlight that I feel around me--Morning! It is morning!

  William Morley Punshon

  Morning, Clouds, Darkness

  William Morley Punshon (1857). “John Bunyan, a lecture”, p.50

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• Typically, we see an upsurge in anti-abortion violence . . . when the anti-abortion movement kind of thinks it was on the verge of victory, and then finds itself somehow thwarted. . . . When there’s frustration among the anti-abortion forces, violence often results.

  Michelle Goldberg

  Thinking, Frustration, Abortion

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