"And we danced, on the brink of an……" — John Wyndham
"And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past."
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John Wyndham
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28 Quotes by John Wyndham
John Wyndham has 28 quotes on this site.
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We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a…
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Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for
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Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it.
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Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.
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If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.
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The clock is the most scared thing in a hospital
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To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite…
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The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy…
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No... souls are just counters for churches to collect, all the same value, like nails. No, what makes man man…
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I'm a reliable witness, you're a reliable witness, practically all God's children are reliable witnesses in their own estimation--which makes…
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But, as I understand it, your God is a universal God; He is God on all suns and all planets.…
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Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.
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More Brink Quotes
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If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life…
— Cate Blanchett
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My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on…
— Giacomo Casanova
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Motherhood is the one thing in all the world which most truly exemplifies the God-given virtues of creating and sacrificing.…
— David O. McKay
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The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.
— Oscar Wilde
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Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the…
— Sigmund Freud
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It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near…
— Thomas Brooks
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If we continue on the trend we're on, we can reduce extreme poverty by more than 60 percent-lifting more than…
— Rajiv Shah
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I love to live on the brink of eternity.
— David Brainerd
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If I saw the gates of hell open and I stood on the brink of the abyss, I would not…
— Gemma Galgani
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For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves…
— Thomas Merton
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During the next four years...unless drastic steps are taken by Congress, the U.S. will have nearly 8,000,000 unemployed and will…
— Henry A. Wallace
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