Brink Quotes

163 quotes by 143 authors

Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought our reputation to… — George Washington
Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in… — John Milton
Losing can persuade you to change what doesn't need to be changed, and winning can convince you everything is fine even if you are on… — Garry Kasparov
We're on the brink of a world in which the wealthiest nations, from Canada to Norway to Japan, can barely project meaningful force to their… — Mark Steyn
In the same way that banks succeeded at privatizing the profits and socializing the losses as they led the global economy to the brink of… — Unknown Author
Rather than exist each day in some dull, boring habitual manner, move into action on a big idea. Everyone is on the brink of possibility.… — Bob Proctor
The house seemed so empty without him. And I thought about the life we'd been building together for all that time. I realized I was… — Hunter Tylo
The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff. How far had he walked? Nobody knows. Where did he come from? Nobody knows. How… — Ted Hughes
The nations slithered over the brink into the boiling cauldron of war without any trace of apprehension or dismay... The nations backed their machines over… — David Lloyd George
If I didn't think, I'd be much happier; if I didn't have any sex organs, I wouldn't waver on the brink of nervous emotion and… — Sylvia Plath
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life… — George Sand
If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. — John Foster Dulles
And in another year everything will be different yet again. It is always like that, and always will be; you are forever standing on the… — Penelope Lively
When traveling in rural Africa, it's important to not actually *go* to a hospital until the patient is on the brink of expiration, otherwise things… — Josh Gates
The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything. — Diane Arbus
Europe is standing on the brink of the greatest tragedy in the history of the human race: a new world war, that may involve the… — Vidkun Quisling
When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that...the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort… — Elbert Hubbard
We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide… — Bruce Sterling
How many times do you take yourself to the brink of complete collapse? It's not a real fun place to go. — Bryan Clay
We got rich by violating one of the central tenets of economics: thou shall not sell off your capital and call it income. And yet… — Kalle Lasn

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