Quotes About Edge

The knife he held was obsidian, sharp enough to cut a dream.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Eddie's edge of cynicism caused a smile to play at his lips. "You'd have to pay when you came before him." "I'm before him now," the liveryman said solemnly. "I've come to understand I'm before him each and every minute.

Love and hate have just a knife's edge between them.

Love and hate have just knife's edge between them.

The blade itself was dull, but its edge had a cold and frosty glint. "It speaks louder, does it not? It hisses a dire threat. It makes a deadly promise. Do you hear

The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.

Humanity is a germ that thrives on the very edge of catastrophe.

There was an intensity of sensation when you were on the edge of what you could handle, when you were physically tested and made to fight for each breath, that was somehow exhilarating.

There's no guardrail.

Y así continúo corriendo tras esta vaga sombra, hasta que me conduce al borde del abismo, donde me detengo con espanto.

Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life - Shogun.

You may never reach that glorious moment until you die, so live life on the edge halfway between heaven and hell...and let's all dance in the middle in purgatory.

People who are kind of at the cutting edge of life and survival, and being near the nitty-gritty, like my films, and I like that.

...by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain me like sweet water on the periodically barren plain of our short lives.

The Waves is an extraordinary achievement ... It is trembling on the edge. A little less - and it would lose its poetry. A little more - and it would be over into the abyss, and be dull and arty. It is her greatest book.

the corner by the old Piggly Wiggly building, I felt the familiar edge

I am-really am-an extremist, one who lives and loves by choice far out on the very verge of things, on the edge of the abyss, where this world falls off into the depths of another.

If you're putting the puck in an awkward place for someone, that's right away, advantage: you.

I've always been interested in working with top athletes, athletes who are pushing the edge and are really progressive in the outdoor space and adventure world.

I fear nothing. I fly around and do things a guy 6-2 and 240 would not do. That gives me an edge.

A conventional truth can be important - it's essential to learn elementary mathematics, for example - but it won't give you an edge. It's not a secret.

Gurney says there's no artistry in killing with the tip, that it should be done with the edge.

Paul looked down at the hand that had known pain, and then up to the Reverend Mother. The sound of her voice contained a difference than from any other voicing his experience. The words were outlined in brilliance. There was an edge to them.