I was on the verge of quitting… The Acting Center actually saved me as an actor. — Cady McClain Copy Share Image
Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish. — Gilbert White Copy Share Image
Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
I'm just constantly on the verge of bursting into tears with joy. — Phoebe Waller-Bridge Copy Share Image
The government cannot become a bailout organization for companies on the verge of bankruptcy. — Martin Winterkorn Copy Share Image
Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Satan can make men dance upon the brink of hell as though they were on the verge of heaven. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
You blame me for weeping, but how can I help it when you will not weep for yourselves, though your immortal souls… — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
Wherever there is one job on the verge of being lost, I will fight to save it. Wherever there is one company… — Joe Manchin Copy Share Image
This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet… — Charles Gounod Copy Share Image
Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I think the acquisition of consumers might be on the verge of being mapped. The battlefield is going to be retention and… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
A major change is afoot as we combine both WPZ and Access into the large scale natural gas infrastructure MLP. And the… — Alan Armstrong Copy Share Image
A favorite Wired icon for the information feedback loop, a dragon curling in a circle to swallow its own tail, could become… — Jedediah Purdy Copy Share Image
I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The… — A. J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
Though I was satisfied that I was on the verge of perhaps a magnificent find, probably one of the missing tombs that… — Howard Carter Copy Share Image
We must die alone. To the very verge of the stream our friends may accompany us; they may bend over us, they… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Results "are no good unless they answer (or can be made to seem to answer, or can be twisted and wrenched and… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
Watch over your child, as it struggles for breath on the outermost verge of life, or see your wife follow the child… — Bjornstjerne Bjornson Copy Share Image
Thus we seem to be on the verge of an expansion of welfare economics into something like a social science of ethics… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“It's much easier . . . to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“The verge, he likes to say. That's where we want them, the utter, utter verge.” — Kathe Koja Copy Share Image
My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic. — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism. — Jeanne Moreau Copy Share Image
We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis... — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
The turkey's eyes are such that he can see a bumblebee turn a somersault on the verge of the horizon. — Archibald Rutledge Copy Share Image
The thousand petal lotus of light, the crown center, really does not become operative until one is on the verge of enlightenment… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I was on the verge of jumping into one of those holes in life out of which we emerge a bit tattered… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
An enlightened mind is not hoodwinked; it is not shut up in a gloomy prison till it thinks the walls of its… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And view the ocean leaning on the sky: From thence our rolling Neighbours… — John Dryden 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image