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Quotes About Brink

I think I'd have to say that 'The Shining' is my scariest movie ever.
~ Maria Brink
I was stirred by the dark mystery of mortality. I couldn't resist stealing up to the edge of doom and peering over the brink (…) That was a very different thing from wanting to die.
~ Jon Krakauer
We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face.
~ John Foster Dulles
Whatever Romney's failings, he certainly doesn't suggest that the United States is teetering on the brink of a moral cesspool.
~ John Podhoretz
Everything was going beautifully, on the brink of taking wing, and I had a feeling that I'd never had, that reality itself was transforming around us in some beautiful and dangerous fashion, that we were being driven by a force we didn't understand, towards an end I did not know.
~ Donna Tartt
Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it never came.
~ Raymond Carver
An arresting testimony to the haunting power of friendships, THE AFTER GIRLS is a story that understands what it is to be passionate, confused, and on the brink. I loved every resonant word.
~ Micol Ostow
Certain attacks brought him so close to death that I wonder how he escaped it, what imperceptible shock—coming from whom?—pushed him back from the brink.
~ Jean Genet
The Maria, what I look like in real life and how I am, I'm a super flower child. I wear all flower child '60s dresses.
~ Maria Brink
Our business was done at the river's brink;
~ Robert Browning
Why? Because you're never afraid? You should be. Life is a walk to the edge of a cliff. Every day we get a step nearer, and what lies over the brink, no one can tell.
~ Deepak Chopra
Men are mere mortals but their quest for knowledge leads them to the brink of immortality.
~ Grace Willows
If Kartr had an instant picture of what it meant to dangle so precariously over the edge of a sheer drop he did not betray himself.
~ Andre Norton
The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Don't tell me they didn't have a choice. Now the whole world stands on the brink, staring down into bloody hell, all those liberals and intellectuals and smooth-talkers... and all of a sudden, nobody can think of anything to say.
~ Alan Moore
Life balances itself on a precarious ledge, we can stay safe up high or propel off the edge.
~ Tarryn Fisher
Light illuminates the path of humanity: it is our own fault if we go over the brink.
~ Aleister Crowley
Upon the brink of the wild stream / He stood, and dreamt a mighty dream.
~ Alexander Pushkin
Lisa Gerrard from Dead Can Dance is my favorite singer as a singer - so I'm really widely spread open with music choices.
~ Maria Brink
and was on the edge of the walk
~ Louis L'Amour
The feet of Raoul were over the edge of the cliff, bathed in that void which is peopled by vertigo, and provokes to self-annihilation.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Cultural Marxism that has permeated all of Europe and has been the driving force that has brought France - the nation of Liberty, Fraternity and Equality - to the brink.
~ Charlie Kirk
Every judgment teeters on the brink of error," Leto explained. "To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
~ Frank Herbert
Every judgment teeters on the brink of error,' Leto explained. 'To claim absolute knowledge is to becomemonstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
~ Frank Herbert