Precipice Quotes

74 Precipice quotes by 70 unique authors

At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away… — Richard Dooling
No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just as in a… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's quite a job… — Jean-Paul Sartre
No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each… — Herbert Hoover
Always know you could be on the precipice of something great. — Donald Trump
War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always… — C.S. Lewis
Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated. — Sathya Sai Baba
And that, my friend, is how the world ends. On the edge of a precipice, with one foot over the edge, it stops, turns and… — Jack Finney
If we don't want temptation to follow us, we shouldn't act as if we are interested. No one ever fell over a precipice who never… — Richard L. Evans
For me there were only two ways on the precipice - either I have to fall in or I have to fall out, to accept… — B.K.S. Iyengar
Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice. — Robinson Jeffers
In good times, we all want to drop anchor, to stop in time! But man is condemned to move till the far end of the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a… — Henry Ward Beecher
There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold,… — Ernest Bramah
Here’s a secret intel bulletin for all y’all who’ve never left Yoknapatawpha County and imagine the United States is constantly on the precipice of enemy… — Chuck Thompson
When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from… — William Hazlitt
I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fall off the precipice. — Jessica Lange
We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it. — Blaise Pascal
We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government. — Zachary Quinto
Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced… — Anthony Trollope
When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and… — Frank Herbert
To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more… — Oscar Wilde
There is By my leaning over the precipice Of your presence and your absence in hopeless fusion My finding the secret Of loving you Always… — Andre Breton
We think a flower on a cliff is beautiful Because we stop our feet at the cliff's edge Unable to step out into the sky… — Tite Kubo

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