Teetering Quotes

20 quotes by 19 authors

It might pay to be resilient, if this was all being vulnerable and skinless got you. People didnâ€™t stop and cluck over damage done unless… — Daphne Merkin
Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones. — Max Lerner
I should like to bring a case to trial: Prosperity versus Beauty, Cash registers teetering in a balance against the comfort of the soul. — Amy Lowell
It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing, watching and patching,… — Lewis Thomas
The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter. — Eric Hoffer
The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been… — Jim DeMint
The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time,… — Arianna Huffington
We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood. — Isaac Asimov
A firm rule must be imposed upon our nation before it destroys itself. The United States needs some theology and geometry, some taste and decency.… — John Kennedy Toole
you've got to burn straight up and down and then maybe sidewise for a while and have your guts scrambled by a bully and the… — Charles Bukowski
Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . . — Martin Amis
I can see the first apple teetering when I let the third arrow go, catching the torn flap and ripping it from the bag. For… — Suzanne Collins
Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it. — Douglas Adams
What is an "I", and why are such things found (at least so far) only in association with, as poet Russell Edson once wonderfully phrased… — Douglas Hofstadter
Droplets, droplets: We are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us the way, to… — Lauren Oliver
Whatâ€™s important is that you make the leap. Jump high and hard with intention and heart. Pay no mind to the vision that the commission… — Cheryl Strayed
It was rather awkward, insofar as we were both teetering between the possibility of something and the possibility of nothing. — David Levithan
Raven jerks and stiffens. For a second, I think she is only surprised: Her mouth goes round, her eyes wide. Then she begins teetering backward,… — Lauren Oliver
Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff since Hiroshima. In… — Rick Yancey
It is easy to be pessimistic. These are extraordinarily difficult times, and the collective psyche is teetering. But we are closer to righting the wrongs… — Mark Zandi

Who Wrote These Teetering Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 20 Teetering Quotes as follows: