Quotes About Edge

Isn't an awareness of their transience what gives these moments their exquisite edge?

The roar behind him was louder than anything he had ever heard in his life; a monstrous fist punched him in the back, knocking all the wind out of him even before he landed, sprawled on his belly on the wall top, barely holding on to his staff as it swung over the edge.

Relaxing in the sun was my cup of tea. I'm a champion relaxer and have won numerous prizes in do-nothing competitions. To maintain my competitive edge I need to keep in touch with the updates in relaxing techniques.

A glow of solar corona showed over the edge of the shadow square.

You're the one who doesn't understand, I've been standing on the edge with you for years.

Out there on the edge, the spinning of the Earth had slowed to give us the time we need to start finding each other again.

I took the broom and made a wild sweep along the workbench, and an edge of the unwieldy head sent a tray of tools flying. Patrick picked up a chipped chisel and looked at me as if I had attacked his son. Have you never used a broom before?

If You Want To Rebel Against Society, Don't Dull The Blade

I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q...

there can be a savage edge.

the main stimulus for the renewal of Christianity will come from the bottom and from the edge, from sectors of the Christian world that are on the margins."22

Dan: We're looking at World War Three within the WEEK! I mean, what do we DO? The stakes are so high and humanity is so close to the edge... Rorschach: Some of us have always lived on edge, Daniel. It is possible to survive there if you observe rules: Just hang on by fingernails... and never look down.

Some of us have always lived on edge, Daniel. It is possible to survive if you observe rules: just hang on by fingernails...and never look down.

Final Destination was the closest thing I've done to a teen movie but it certainly had an edge to it.

Driven to insanity, driven to the edge Driven to the point of almost no return Driven to think awful thoughts, do awful things But at least I'd like to think I've learned I'm driven Driven to be smarter Driven to work harder Driven to be better everyday Driven to keep on and on To achieve the things I want I'll be sorry if I don't Make the most of livin' I'm driven

The Thin Man I indulge myself In rich refusals. Nothing suffices. I hone myself to This edge. Asleep, I Am a horizon.

Greatness lives on the edge of destruction

Life is worth Living Through every grain of it, From the foundations To the last edge Of the cornerstone, death.

Life should be lived on the edge of life.

We kiss until my lips are numb, stopping ourselves on the very edge of Someday, saying not yet, not here, even though it takes willpower I didn't know I had. My mind is spinning with him and with the unexpected Almost of today.

A neat little apartment with a neat little bourgeois life. A neat little security on the edge of the abyss. Do you really see that?

We are most intensely excited when we are a little off-balance, uncertain, "poised on the perilous edge between ecstasy and disaster."7

This is one of those edge cases where your instructors tell you to use your best judgment. Which is a phrase that you learn later actually means, We're going to blame you no matter what if things go badly.

as if the next thing must quickly come along to occupy her, or the abyss might open. What abyss? The abyss that waits for all of us, when all our actions seem futile, when the ability to fill the day seems stalled, and the waiting takes on an edge of dread.