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Quotes About Edge

Trump's obsessive and unfiltered venting had brought him to the edge once again.
~ Bob Woodward
Another strategy was to delay, procrastinate, cite legal restrictions. Lawyer Porter said, "But slow-walking things or not taking things up to him, or telling him—rightly, not just as an excuse—but this needs to be vetted, or we need to do more process on this, or we don't have legal counsel clearance—that happened 10 times more frequently than taking papers from his desk. It felt like we were walking along the edge of the cliff perpetually.
~ Bob Woodward
beating time along the edge of thought.
~ Sylvia Plath
134 Parliament Hill Fields On this bald hill the new year hones its edge. Faceless and pale as china The round sky goes on minding its business. Your absence is inconspicuous; Nobody can tell what I lack.
~ Sylvia Plath
Mercurio bowed, a touch too courteously, an edge Chenti, so quick to speak of swords, quite missed.
~ Tanith Lee
What then do you think is my advantage over you?
~ Ted Dekker
Time to switch to decaf, princess. If you're going to shriek at every bogey that jumps out and says 'boo', you'll be exhausted before we reach the edge of the woods. -Puck
~ Julie
Magda was reading a book by a Trappist, in a better mood, and I was sitting on the edge of the bed, fingering my useless map.
~ Junot Diaz
I got a phone message from Janet Jackson saying, 'Hi, I love 'Losing My Edge', can you do me something funky and dirty like that?' I can't really do off-the-peg stuff, so I never called back.
~ James Murphy
Joan Rivers telling Lauren Bacall her dress is all wrong is like Carrot Top telling Lenny Bruce he needs to get an edge.
~ Dennis Miller
I am honored to join the Under Armour Board, and look forward to seeing how a founder and CEO operates a dynamic and fast-growing company known for innovation and its competitive edge.
~ Karen Katz
Wherefore you shall observe, that the more deep and sober sort of politic persons, in their greatness, are ever bemoaning themselves, what a life they lead; chanting a quanta patimur! Not that they feel it so, but only to abate the edge of envy.
~ Francis Bacon
daredevil who likes to live on the edge may value risk-taking so highly as to underrate others whose prime value is nurturance or preservation—until, perhaps, an accident reveals the practical value and benefit of nursing!
~ Frank DeMarco
The frontier is the outer edge of the wave—the meeting-point between savagery and civilization… the line of most rapid and effective Americanization. The wilderness masters the colonist.
~ Frederick Jackson Turner
Incredible brilliance often dwells on the razor's edge of madness...
~ Brad Thor
some small part of her had reacted to the passion inside him. Despite his role as a titled gentleman, there seemed to be a facet inside him that society could not tame, something stimulating yet dangerous, like standing at the edge of a cliff and feeling the mysterious, subtle pull to jump.
~ Brenda Novak
She was glad to pause, however, on the edge of this larger adventure; there was such a thrill even in the preliminary hovering.
~ Henry James
Ten years ago, I went to visit my dad in Australia. I walked to the edge of a cliff and looked over and tripped. I righted myself but my head was over the edge. No one saw it.
~ Sara Pascoe
When I look at a football pitch, I suppose, yes, I see it as my canvas. I see solutions, possibilities, the space to express myself. I am always looking for ways to be creative, to gain an edge.
~ Robin Van Persie
To me, what defines a New Yorker is the edge that one develops from having actually lived here. Once you have it, it doesn't go away, and everywhere else in the world feels like it is in slow motion.
~ Donald Trump, Jr.
Those are the kinds of roles you can really sink your teeth into. Characters with an edge. When you're playing someone who's sort of seedy, there's less limitation, there's so much space you can travel. There's room to move in.
~ Matt Dillon
Every cloud has a silver lining. The edge of light that shines brightest holds a sliver of hope for a bright today & an even better tomorrow.
~ Truth Devour, Unrequited
A really important lesson in investing is that being either too far in front or too far behind is when you get hurt, whereas being right at the edge of the wave is where the money is made. And our job is not to be right, but to make money.
~ Steven Drobny
Every gift is edged.
~ Steven Erikson