Cusp Quotes

• This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath.

  Margaret Atwood

  Letting Go, Past, Years

  Margaret Atwood (2015). “Morning in the Burned House”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you're just addressing your own emotions and challenging yourself to find some sort of harmonious sense of being in life and questioning authority and questioning what's given and questioning what's expected of you, you're already on the cusp of finding something in yourself, and maybe waking something in somebody else.

  Saul Williams

  Challenges, Waking, Emotion

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

  Sean Parker

  Real, Imagination, Entrepreneur

  Facebook: Sean Parker, www.facebook.com.

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• We're getting close to making our vision a reality. It's exciting to be on the cusp of opening our doors to the public. We're right on schedule.

  James K. Coyne, III

  Reality, Doors, Vision

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• The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.

  Steven Levy

  World, Revolution, Dramatic

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• I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.

  Audre Lorde

  Change, Curves, Shifting

  Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: And Other Essays”, p.120, Courier Dover Publications

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• We are on the cusp of the emergence of a company of hidden men and women who with all faith and patience have been enduring great struggles and dealings, being processed by the Lord and filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ. These are not those who seek a reputation for themselves, their passion is His glory and giving Him the church He has longed for. May God grant us all the heart of apostolic fathering and mothering that can release His power in the earth. Zion is once again in travail to bring forth her children.

  Mark Chironna

  Children, Struggle, Passion

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• We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut."

  Lawrence Lessig

  Nuts, Atheism, Citizens

  "One Planet, One Net" symposium, October 10, 1998.

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• For most of human history, we could only watch, like bystanders, the beautiful dance of Nature. But today, we are on the cusp of an epoch-making transition, from being passive observers of Nature to being active choreographers of Nature. The Age of Discovery in science is coming to a close, opening up an Age of Mastery.

  Michio Kaku

  Beautiful, Science, Bystanders

  Michio Kaku (1999). “Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century”, p.5, Oxford Paperbacks

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• You can be on the cusp of something.  Appreciate the cusp, not the something.  Appreciate this moment now.

  Ernest Holmes

  Appreciate, Moments

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• It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.

  Jodi Picoult

  Girl, May, Want

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “My Sister's Keeper”, p.480, Simon and Schuster

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• We live on the cusp of death
  Thinking it won't be us

  Macklemore

  Rap, Thinking

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• Milk which is just about to turn is akin to that moment spent on the cusp of failure in a dulled and fettered relationship.

  Matt Roper

  Milk, Moments, That Moment

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• I recently lost 50 pounds. I'm hovering on the cusp of a size eight, which seems unbelievable.

  Kathy Najimy

  Eight, Hovering, Size

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• One of the most poignant pieces of recent science fiction for me was the portrayal of the adults in the Pixar film WALL-E. I feel like we're on the cusp of becoming fat babies in floating chairs being fed everything in shake form, and I feel like I am as prone to laziness as anybody.

  Nick Offerman

  Baby, Wall, Adults

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Humanity, Renaissance, May

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• A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.

  Jane Smiley

  Novelists, Knows

  Jane Smiley (2008). “13 Ways of Looking at the Novel”, p.46, Anchor

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• We were fortunate at that time we were working with Virgin, and with Flood, probably more well-known as Brian Eno's engineer now and U2's producer, etc. Even though we weren't working in a strictly popular music area, which was great, we were lucky enough to work with people who were on the cusp of those sort of things.

  Stephen Mallinder

  People, Lucky, Etc

  Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

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• I always want to be on the cusp of being in the best shape that I can be. What I'm discovering is that the older you get, the more work you have to do to stay there.

  Michelle Obama

  Shapes, Want, Discovering

  "Michelle Obama's Rules for Staying Healthy and Happy". Interview with Liz Vaccariello, www.prevention.com. November 3, 2011.

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• I think that I was just on the cusp of the generation that was beginning to really challenge some of the assumptions about the role of women and the role of men on campus.

  Claire McCaskill

  Men, Thinking, Challenges

  Source: www.elle.com

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• he challenge is finding the modern conduit for the audience, having fun and really looking at the duality of this particular character, that is both devil and angel, and on the cusp of losing control of the pagan background, to this newfangled religion called Christianity. There's a great backdrop there, and just a whole dark side with the magic.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Fun, Character, Angel

  "Joseph Fiennes, Tamsin Egerton & Exec. Producer Chris Chibnall Interview CAMELOT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 1, 2011.

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• I always want to be on the cusp of being in the best shape that I can be.

  Michelle Obama

  Shapes, Want, I Can

  "Michelle Obama’s tips for being happy, healthy". Interview with Liz Vaccariello, www.today.com. October 5, 2009.

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• Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of economics and psychology.

  Evan Davis

  Psychology, Hot, Topics

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• Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.

  Gilbert Adair

  Past, Principles, Batteries

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• His coworker was velvety-skinned, a sexy boy-on-the-cusp-of man.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Sexy, Boys, Men

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Fever Series 5-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever”, p.368, Dell

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