he was like a man on the brink of his own creation.

Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will…

— Apostolos Doxiadis

“Put a man on the brink of the abyss and--in the unlikely event that he doesn't fall into it--he will become either a mystic…

— Christos H. Papadimitriou Apostolos Doxiadis

On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance…

— Barton Gellman

I make lists to keep my anxiety level down. If I write down 15 things to be done, I lose that vague, nagging sense…

— Mary Roach

Bipartisanship has taken us to the brink of bankruptcy. We don't need bipartisanship, we need application of principle... Where was the call for bipartisanship…

— Richard Mourdock

It seems not to matter that we are at the brink of a war that may spread beyond Afghanistan and Iraq to Iran and…

— Richard Schiff

“Here I stand on the brink of war again, a citizen of no place, no time, no country but my own . . .…

— Diana Gabaldon

It was Hurricane Sandy that not only decimated parts of my district but pushed me to the brink of my frustrations with the game…

— Jon Runyan

“Never so sure our rapture to create As when it touch'd the brink of all we hate.”

— William Hazlitt

We are living on the brink of the apocalypse, but the world is asleep.

— Joel C. Rosenberg

Bergman movies were the most influential. They used to show at Goucher University, which was where my parents used to live. 'Brink of Life'…

— John Waters

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

— Gary Shteyngart

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success.

— Joyce Meyer

We're on the cusp, on the brink, of enormous change in this country.

— Jennifer Granholm

We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face.

— John Foster Dulles