Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice. — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
“Since we can’t trust the precipice, we shall trust the bridge however worn out it is and we shall cross to the… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government. — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
Evil is simply a grammatical error: a failure to leap the precipice between "he" and "I. — Linda Pastan Copy Share Image
I don't know if we're on the edge of the precipice, but we're in a very, very, very difficult situation. — Luis de Guindos Copy Share Image
He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The nations slithered over the brink into the boiling cauldron of war without any trace of apprehension or dismay... The nations backed… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
The truth of God may well be likened to a narrow path skirted on either side by a dangerous and destructive precipice:… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
If we don't want temptation to follow us, we shouldn't act as if we are interested. No one ever fell over a… — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
We stand on a precipice, then before a chasm, and as we wait it becomes higher, wider, deeper, but I am crazy… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
Poles offer a mobility like that of the wind that blows over the immense plains and marches of Poland. Show a Pole… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
We're now on the precipice of having a potentially much better economy, but the last thing we need to do is to… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I love the joy of mountains Wandering free with no concerns Every day I find food for this old body There's leisure… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
Training was a rite of purification; from it came speed, strength. Racing was a rite of death; from it came knowledge. Such… — John L. Parker Jr Copy Share Image
“Remember, our kind protects you Normals from the Pures. We are the rope tied between man and super-beast. A rope forever dangling… — Daven Anderson Copy Share Image
I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
In his larger forms, Schubert is a wanderer. He likes to move at the edge of the precipice, and does so with… — Alfred Brendel Copy Share Image
We're left with so little to go on. Only the present is full enough to seem complete, and even that is an… — Ivan Vladislavic Copy Share Image
No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Foolish man, what do you bemoan, and what do you fear? Wherever you look there is an end of evils. You see… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And because our reason violently deters us from the brink, therefore, do we the more impetuously approach it. There is no passion… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Suppose one who had always continued blind be told by his guide that after he has advanced so many steps he shall… — David Berman Copy Share Image
Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice. — Ryan Phillippe Copy Share Image
It’s only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve. — John Cleese Copy Share Image
I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fall off the… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
The edge of a precipice... That is the place where man sits throughout his life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm on the precipice - just seeing a better version of me coming out. — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
