Edges Quotes

301 Edges quotes by 254 unique authors

Selfliss giving rounds the edges in spiritual practice. Many people can meditate very well but they're still very egotistical. — Frederick Lenz
Meditation without selfless giving is not enough. You may go into very high states of consciousness but the rough edges will still be there -… — Frederick Lenz
I spend a lot of time working and with my family, so I don't have much time around the edges to do much else. I… — Kate Bush
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. — Benjamin Franklin
We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group. — Roger Daltrey
Pushing the envelope' sort of implies that you're inside the envelope with everyone else, and you're trying to find the edges on the outsides. — Louis C. K.
We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy. — E L Doctorow
It's hard to get out of the barrel. It's slippery around the edges and people are happy to see you fall back in. — Robert Downey, Jr.
There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the… — Brian Eno
I love working with big flavors like chiles and smoke. Honey is perfect for softening the edges, mellowing them out a bit. I put it… — Bobby Flay
There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the… — Boris Johnson
People from small towns have to have their edges roughed up to get along in the world. But as a street reporter, you learn quickly. — Bill Kurtis
Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges. — Herman Melville
Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group… — Mary Oliver
No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close. — Chuck Palahniuk
Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership. — Donald Rumsfeld
And then as I frequently do, some times I'll peek out from underneath the focusing cloth and just look around the edges of the frame… — John Sexton
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. — Rabindranath Tagore
I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges. — Sam Taylor-Wood
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away… — Barbara Walters
Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended… — Elizabeth Warren
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. — Virginia Woolf
Overdone lipstick is a deterrent to men. It rubs off easily onto their skin and the edges of their shirts, so it discourages them from… — Helen Fisher
The leaves streamed down, trembling in the sun. They were not green, only a few, scattered through the torrent, stood out in single drops of… — Ayn Rand
Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of… — Cormac McCarthy

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