Teetering Quotes
20 quotes by 19 authors
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It might pay to be resilient, if this was all being vulnerable and skinless got you. People didn’t stop and cluck over damage done unless…
— Daphne Merkin
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Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.
— Max Lerner
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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
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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
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The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter.
— Eric Hoffer
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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
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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
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We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.
— Isaac Asimov
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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
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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
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Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside . . .
— Martin Amis
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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
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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
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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
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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
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What’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
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It was rather awkward, insofar as we were both teetering between the possibility of something and the possibility of nothing.
— David Levithan
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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
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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
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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: