Edges Quotes - Page 19

• Maybe what frightens us about the edge isn't our fear of morality, but the thoughts it leads us to have.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Morality

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• She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost

  Eleanor Catton

  Girl, School, Loner

  Eleanor Catton (2009). “The Rehearsal”

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• I want your hands on my head.” I nod and edge back to make room for him. “Does it calm your racing thoughts?” He shakes his head, then takes my hand and spreads it open over his wide chest, his voice textured as he traps my gaze with his. “It calms me here.

  Katy Evans

  Hands, Voice, Racing

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• You’ve read the books?” “I’ve seen the movies.” Cath rolled her eyes so hard, it hurt. (Actually.) (Maybe because she was still on the edge of tears. On the edge, period.) “So you haven’t read the books.” “I’m not really a book person.” “That might be the most idiotic thing you’ve ever said to me

  Rainbow Rowell

  Hurt, Book, Eye

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Carry On”, p.395, St. Martin's Griffin

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• There is no place so awake and alive as the edge of becoming. But more than that, birthing the kind of woman who can authentically say, 'My soul is my own,' and then embody it in her life, her spirituality, and her community is worth the risk and hardship.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Community, Soul, Risk

  FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Jan 31, 2014

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• You don’t sound very patriotic,” observed Tessa. “Weren’t you just reminiscing about the mountains?” “Patriotic?” Will looked smug. “I’ll tell you what’s patriotic,” he said. “In honor of my birthplace, I’ve the dragon of Wales tattooed on my—” “You’re in a charming temper, aren’t you, William?” interrupted Jem, though there was no edge to his voice.

  Cassandra Clare

  Patriotic, Dragons, Voice

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• You flirt with everything." She could tell that her eyes were popping-- her eyeballs actually felt cold around the edges. "You flirt with old people and babies and everybody in between.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Baby, Eye, Flirting

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.209, Pan Macmillan

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• Yeah, my bad," Leo muttered. "I should've crashed on one of the other islands. Oh, wait-there aren't any!" She [Calypso] snarled and kept walking along the edge of the water.

  Rick Riordan

  Islands, Water, Waiting

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• Our story is over, yes, but our journey isn't, because we'll always live on the edge until the day we die.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Journey, Stories, Dies

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• And as much as I’d like to believe there’s a truth beyond illusion, I’ve come to believe that there’s no truth beyond illusion. Because, between ‘reality’ on the one hand, and the point where the mind strikes reality, there’s a middle zone, a rainbow edge where beauty comes into being, where two very different surfaces mingle and blur to provide what life does not: and this is the space where all art exists, and all magic.

  Donna Tartt

  Art, Believe, Reality

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• Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.

  Liane Moriarty

  Aggravation, Insanity, Hovering

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• We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Inspirational, Thinking, Lines

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• A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

  John Cheever

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  1966 Collected in The Journals,'The Sixties'.

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• Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Leadership, Business, Authority And Power

  Anne Bradstreet, Adrienne Rich, Jeannine Hensley (2010). “The works of Anne Bradstreet”, Belknap Pr

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• If I am content to heal a hurt slightly, saying "Peace, peace," where is no peace; if I forget the poignant word "Let love be without dissimulation" and blunt the edge of truth, speaking not right things but smooth things, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

  Amy Carmichael

  Forgiveness, Peace, Hurt

  Amy Carmichael (2003). “If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?”, p.27, CLC Publications

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• For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.

  John Milton

  Freedom, Men, Skills

  John Milton (1851). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.245

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• We have embraced the 21st century by entering such cutting-edge industries as brick, carpet, insulation and paint. Try to control your excitement.

  Warren Buffett

  Future, Cutting, Trying

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.118, John Wiley & Sons

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• Honest hope has an edge. It's messy. It requires that we let go of all pat answers, all preconceived formulas, all confidence that our sailing will be smooth. It's not a resting point. Honest hope is movement.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Hope

  Frances Moore Lappé, Anna Lappé (2003). “Hope's edge: the next diet for a small planet”, J P Tarcher

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• I maintained my edge by always being a student; you will always have something new to learn.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Motivational, Learning, Students

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

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Lasts, Foundation

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Poems”

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• Life as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence when it comes upon soundings.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Life, Ocean, Existence

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• Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
  Within his bending sickle's compass come;
  Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
  But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
  If this be error and upon me prov'd,
  I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Men, Errors

  Sonnet 116

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• Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.

  Matthew Bellamy

  Music, Dark, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Peace, Believe, Way

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• Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a hell we should make of the world if we could do what we would!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Power, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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