Precipice Quotes
74 quotes by 71 authors
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My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice…
— Giacomo Casanova
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Doubt is a precipice on the way to God. Blessed is he who is freed from its bonds. He who fares without any doubt, adhere…
— Rumi
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When my children wake up in the morning they know they will eat breakfast, get hugs from their parents, go to a good, safe school.…
— Susan Sarandon
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It’s only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve.
— John Cleese
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Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.
— Ryan Phillippe
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So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have…
— Richard M. Nixon
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The map of the world is always changing; sometimes it happens overnight. All it takes is the blink of an eye, the squeeze of a…
— Anderson Cooper
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A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of the root…
— Gautama Buddha
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Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now…
— Elena Ferrante
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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
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We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption.
— James Hansen
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Ten years ago, in the aftermath of the referendum in Quebec, the very existence of Canada was on the line... I had a responsibility to…
— Jean Chretien
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We stand on a precipice, then before a chasm, and as we wait it becomes higher, wider, deeper, but I am crazy enough to think…
— Diane Arbus
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We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some…
— Sean Lennon
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To love is to live on the precipice.
— Anne Desclos
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Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry reasoning with unlooked-for…
— Margaret Fuller
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He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare…
— Washington Irving
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We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are…
— Charles Schumer
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Never has our nation , or our world, stood on the precipice of adversity in such dire need of men answering the cry to rule…
— Tony Evans
Who Wrote These Precipice Quotes
71 authors contributed a total of 74 Precipice Quotes, led by these top contributors: