Never so sure our rapture to create As when it touch'd the…

“Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures down the throats of the gaping multitude, and the jargon…

— William Hazlitt

“What are the present governments of Europe, but a scene of iniquity and oppression? What is that of England? Do not its own inhabitants…

— Thomas Paine

“Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out!" he exclaimed. "The shot will only go smoothly when…

— Eugen Herrigel

“You have described only too well," replied the Master, "where the difficulty lies...The right shot at the right moment does not come because you…

— Eugen Herrigel

“The right art," cried the Master, "is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake…

— Eugen Herrigel

“Even when I ran my bar I followed the same policy. A lot of customers came to the bar. If one in ten enjoyed…

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Edna O'Brien

“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

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

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