Verge Quotes

“Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“On the verge of an orgasm,”

— T. Styles

Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch

— Slavoj Žižek

I'm always on the verge of death in my head.

— Howie Mandel

I'm constantly on the verge of a panic attack.

— Camille Rowe

We're on the verge of all things new.

— Billy Joel

If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

— John Foster Dulles

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

— Walt Whitman

“You're never so alive as when you're on the verge of death.”

— Simon Kernick

A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.

— Thomas Merton

I love heights. I love speed. Im on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom.

— Erin Wasson

Lord of the far horizons, Give us the eyes to see Over the verge of the sundown The beauty that is to…

— Bliss Carman

I was on the verge of quitting… The Acting Center actually saved me as an actor.

— Cady McClain

I love heights. I love speed. I'm on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom.

— Erin Wasson

While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance.

— Michael K. Simpson

Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.

— Gilbert White

America's all about the various voices, right? When we all speak with a common voice we verge on fascism, which is militaristic,…

— Lee Klein

In Cuba we are building a socialist society and we could say we are on the verge of a communist society which…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet…

— James T. Farrell

When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what…

— Mark Twain

We are confronting a situation in which the Administration, in my view, is once again manufacturing a crisis. There is no crisis…

— Paul Sarbanes

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a…

— Germaine Greer

Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins…

— Robert Blair

Check out the produce bin in your fridge or your cabinet before you buy more. When you see something on the verge…

— Dana Cowin

such incidents brought me to the verge of despair, but little more and I would have put an end to my life…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

It's probably hard for anyone looking at my landscapes today to realize that I was once regarded as a rebel, a dangerous…

— A. Y. Jackson

Worship power-you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever ore power over others to keep the fear at bay.…

— David Foster Wallace

I feel bad for the kids that are in school right now and the young people all across America who don't realize…

— Marco Rubio

For a long time, I would go out of my way to have a personal appearance on the verge of an insane…

— Kurt Braunohler

A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things…

— James Russell Lowell

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…

— Johnny Depp

Whatever fighting words you hear from the bargaining table, the reality is that with the new TV contract about to take effect…

— Leigh Steinberg

Beside the two wars he inherited in Iraq and Afghanistan, and promised to end, a financial crisis at home had pushed the…

— Barack Obama

When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry red, and…

— William Jacob Holland

Pompeii, especially, with its grand murals and its flourishing gardens haunted by the dark shadow of Vesuvius, has always suggested uncomfortable parallels…

— Eleanor Antin

But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure gardens, room…

— Immanuel Kant

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Colour, as the strange and magnificent expression of the inscrutable spectrum of Eternity, is beautiful and important to me as a painter;…

— Max Beckmann

Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet…

— Jacques Monod

Forests ... are in fact the world's air-conditioning system-the very lungs of the planet-and help to store the largest body of freshwater…

— Prince Charles