Brink Quote by William Hazlitt

“Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures down the throats of the gaping multitude, and the jargon…

— William Hazlitt

“What are the present governments of Europe, but a scene of iniquity and oppression? What is that of England? Do not its own inhabitants…

— Thomas Paine

“Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out!" he exclaimed. "The shot will only go smoothly when…

— Eugen Herrigel

“You have described only too well," replied the Master, "where the difficulty lies...The right shot at the right moment does not come because you…

— Eugen Herrigel

“The right art," cried the Master, "is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake…

— Eugen Herrigel

“Even when I ran my bar I followed the same policy. A lot of customers came to the bar. If one in ten enjoyed…

— Haruki Murakami

“he was like a man on the brink of his own creation.”

— Edna O'Brien

“Here I stand on the brink of war again, a citizen of no place, no time, no country but my own . . .…

— Diana Gabaldon

It was Hurricane Sandy that not only decimated parts of my district but pushed me to the brink of my frustrations with the game…

— Jon Runyan

We are living on the brink of the apocalypse, but the world is asleep.

— Joel C. Rosenberg

Bergman movies were the most influential. They used to show at Goucher University, which was where my parents used to live. 'Brink of Life'…

— John Waters

I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

— Gary Shteyngart

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success.

— Joyce Meyer

We're on the cusp, on the brink, of enormous change in this country.

— Jennifer Granholm

On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance…

— Barton Gellman