Quotes About Edge

Time apparently did nothing but blunt grief's sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced.

That rational voice was right to be frightened. There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt a faint, morbid urge to jump.

I love to live on the brink of eternity.

Love asks us that we be a little braver than is comfortable, a little more generous, a little more flexible. It means living on the edge more than we care to.

between the quantum and classical worlds, the quantum edge, where we, as you will have guessed from the title of this book, are claiming life also lies.

Life appears to have one foot in the classical world of everyday objects and the other planted in the strange and peculiar depths of the quantum world. Life, we will argue, lives on the quantum edge.

That placed her inches from a yawning abyss.

A reputation, once developed, is as valuable as a fine sword. But don't forget that it has to be a valid reputation. Or the sword's go no edge.

In you don't continually invest in your education, you risk losing your competitive edge.

Bramblestar nodded agreement. "Then Breezepelt and Crowfeather will try to infuriate the stoats—" "They should find that really easy," Jayfeather put in. His Clan leader gave him a stare from narrowed eyes. "Thank you, Jayfeather," he mewed, an irritated edge to his voice.

I took slight comfort from the fact that he hadn't said we had gone over the edge of our lawful power.

Regarding why I left Inter, it was because I wanted the extra edge to fulfil my ambitions as a professional coach, so I took the risk to find my own job at Academica.

There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.

When you are hoping for a call or want something different, I think you lose your edge.

I guess you have to be on the edge of the normal human condition to be exceptional.

With a live audience, it's very clear when you've pushed it too far to the edge - because you fall off that edge and hit bottom with a thud. Nothing abstract about that. You know you went too far when you hear that groan or worse - that silence instead of the big laugh you were expecting following your hilariously edgy joke.

Like there was a waterfall at the edge of their world that a woman could be washed over, like an invisible Niagara in daily life. A vast high wall of boiling, misty water.

A missed opportunity repentance only leaves behind

Yet as soon as Greece was unified into an empire by a thug – Philip of Macedon in 338 BC – it lost its edge.

Early the next morning, they were on a tram out to the far edge of Amsterdam. Ginny liked the tram. It was like an overgrown toy train that had gotten loose on the streets. She looked out and saw the Netherlands wobbling by - its ancient houses and constant canals and people in practical shoes.

Time and space are finite in extent, but they don't have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but with two more dimensions.

Anything that provides you with an edge over others is worth knowing.

The last thing the American president needed was news that China was about to erase his airpower edge in the Western Pacific.

The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor.