Verge Quotes
174 Verge quotes by 149 unique authors
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Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches! If your love were-"…
— William Goldman
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-You are on the verge of being truly mad. -No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See?
— Anne Rice
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She was so emotional, on the verge of tears. This was what I'd wanted to prevent with all those quick disappearances, the tangledness of farewells…
— Sarah Dessen
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The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
— Arthur Miller
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There's no district 12 to escape from now, no Peacekeepers to trick, no hungry mouths to feed. The Capitol took away all of that, and…
— Suzanne Collins
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one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment,…
— Allen Ginsberg
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He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven—at least in this life—was neither a time nor a place to be grasped and…
— Mary Balogh
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I was already dozing off in the shade, dreaming that the rustling trees were my many selves explaining themselves all at the same time so…
— Charles Simic
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What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon,' cried Daisy, 'and the day after that, and the next thirty years?' 'Don't be morbid,' Jordan said. 'Life…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Really love him, I mean," Geilie persisted. "Not just to bed him; I know you want that, and he does too. They all do. But…
— Diana Gabaldon
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I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I know the unspoken…
— Margaret Atwood
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Her mouth is always on the verge of a smile. It makes her look like there's always something amazing she needs to tell me, even…
— Jodi Picoult
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When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is…
— Mark Twain
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The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that…
— Said Sayrafiezadeh
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If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge…
— Michael Specter
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I was on the verge of taking over a company myself, from my father, before I left Knoxville to become an actor. I was also…
— John Cullum
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I write with a sense of my future readers being ever on the verge of setting down the book and pronouncing it a bore. Fear…
— Mary Roach
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Watch over your child, as it struggles for breath on the outermost verge of life, or see your wife follow the child to that outermost…
— Bjornstjerne Bjornson
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We are confronting a situation in which the Administration, in my view, is once again manufacturing a crisis. There is no crisis in the Social…
— Paul Sarbanes
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Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards…
— Robert Blair
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While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance.
— Michael K. Simpson
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To my mind, what we ought to have maintained from the beginning was the strictest neutrality. If we had done this, I do not believe…
— George William Norris
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Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.
— Gilbert White
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Once the troops move into Cambodia, the colleges and universities of this country were on the verge of civil war. Many closed down. The students…
— William Kunstler
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The administration in my view is once again manufacturing a crisis. There is no crisis in the Social Security system. The system is not on…
— Paul Sarbanes
Who Wrote These Verge Quotes
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