Verge Quotes

174 Verge quotes by 149 unique authors

He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
With many countries on the verge of redefining a basic social institution, What Is Marriage? issues an urgent call for full deliberation of what is at stake.… — Mary Ann Glendon
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
I remember in 2000, when President Clinton came to Cartagena just before Plan Colombia started, the country was on the verge of becoming a failed… — Juan Manuel Santos
The thousand petal lotus of light, the crown center, really does not become operative until one is on the verge of enlightenment itself. Then you… — Frederick Lenz
The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth. — Augustus William Hare
[I]n constitutional adjudication some steps, which when taken were thought to approach 'the verge,' have become the platform for yet further steps. A certain momentum… — Warren E. Burger
Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the… — Pete Best
I'm on the verge of suicide, so what's murder? — Bushwick Bill
I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that… — A. J. Jacobs
When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation. — Felicity Kendal
Future is mobile computing - smartphones and tablets are just elements of it. The industry is on the verge of a whole new paradigm. — Thorsten Heins
There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything. — Dan Chaon
In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more… — Bertrand Russell
such incidents brought me to the verge of despair, but little more and I would have put an end to my life - only art… — Ludwig van Beethoven
When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something. — Pema Chodron
What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction. — Leonardo DiCaprio
The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction in and by… — Clement Greenberg
It's not an exaggeration to say that we're on the verge of a meltdown. — John Hart
We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent have already been… — Theodore Roosevelt
You're missing it. This is not a one-man show. What's reinvigorating this company is two things: One, there's a lot of really talented people in… — Steve Jobs
Today the influences of your society pressure you to be successful before your time. They are pulling you down. They have pulled you down, you… — Stella Adler
Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform… — Will Rogers
You never think you're on the verge of disaster while you're looking over the edge yourself. It's your friends and family who are trying to… — Johnny Depp
The darkness is not so dense as it was; there are faint streaks on the horizon's verge; mist is in the valleys, but there is… — William Morley Punshon

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