. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I love heights. I love speed. Im on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom. — Erin Wasson Copy Share Image
[Even if the U.S. doesn't attack] Saddam Hussein is not going to survive. His regime is on the verge of implosion. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I write with a sense of my future readers being ever on the verge of setting down the book and pronouncing it… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Pompeii, especially, with its grand murals and its flourishing gardens haunted by the dark shadow of Vesuvius, has always suggested uncomfortable parallels… — Eleanor Antin Copy Share Image
America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In the province of Quebec where I come from, we speak French and the only cosmopolitan city is Montreal. Every time we… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
This idea that America is somehow on the verge of collapse, this vision of violence and chaos everywhere, doesn't really jibe with… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance. — Michael K. Simpson Copy Share Image
A noted cancer specialist in Boston said he believed that if some simple and inexpensive replacement for Chemotherapy for the treatment of… — Barry Lynes Copy Share Image
It's not that I don't appreciate my life sober, but it's like there are two different people battling inside of me. I… — Nic Sheff Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, however, what’s most bothersome about Pulp Fiction is its success. This is not to be mean-spirited about Tarantino himself; may he… — Stanley Kauffmann Copy Share Image
But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure gardens, room… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The Social Citizen is the best, most thorough, and most methodologically sophisticated treatment of the role of social networks in political behavior… — James H. Fowler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We are creating the future. It is not determined. If we get our act together and solve our current problems, we could… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Left to its own devices, the State Department machinery tends toward inertia rather than creativity; it is always on the verge of… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
We are confronting a situation in which the Administration, in my view, is once again manufacturing a crisis. There is no crisis… — Paul Sarbanes Copy Share Image
The administration in my view is once again manufacturing a crisis. There is no crisis in the Social Security system. The system… — Paul Sarbanes Copy Share Image
The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it.… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image