Edges Quotes - Page 22

• Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Sleep, Cat, Piano

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• He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Philosophy, Sleep, Cat

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.670, Delphi Classics

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• So that I may meet the day with the knowledge to build the day I will look into my soul while it still dawn, before the morning breaketh.

  Walter Russell

  Morning, Soul, Secret

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• If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill-take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edges of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic.

  Tom Robbins

  Art, Peace, Passion

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.255, Bantam

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• The fundamental idea of these pylons, or great archways, is based on a method of construction peculiar to me, of which the principle consists in giving to the edges of the pyramid a curve of such a nature that this pyramid shall be capable of resisting the force of the wind without necessitating the junction of the edges by diagonals as is usually done.

  Gustave Eiffel

  Science, Curves, Wind

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• I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.

  Thornton Wilder

  Life, Country, Struggle

  1942 The Skin of Our Teeth, act 3.

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• It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.

  William J. Clinton

  Struggle, Cutting, Technology

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.2483, Best Books on

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• For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.

  Bill Bryson

  Stupid, Smart, Technology

  "Notes from a Big Country" / "I'm a Stranger Here Myself", Book by Bill Bryson, 1998.

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• Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Relationship, Rough Edges, Perfect

  Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom”, p.19, Nilgiri Press

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• There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt at least a faint, morbid urge to jump. And anyone who has ever put a loaded pistol up to his head... All right, my point is this: even the most well-adjusted person is holding onto his or her sanity by a greased rope. I really believe that. The rationality circuits are shoddily built into the human animal.

  Stephen King

  Depression, Suicide, Believe

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• How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ignorance, Growth, Remember

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• To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

  David McCullough

  Honor, Noble, Sacred

  David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events”, p.556, Simon and Schuster

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• There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Excess

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.300, Library of America

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• To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect.

  Peter Drucker

  Knowledge, Tree, Forests

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Post-Capitalist Society”, p.176, Routledge

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• We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye ... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Eye, Cutting, Hands

  Ascent of Man (1973) ch. 3

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• Embryonic stem cell research is at the leading edge of a series of moral hazards.

  George W. Bush

  Science, Cells, Hazards

  Remarks on Stem Cell Research, delivered 9 August 2001

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• Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Understanding, Religion, Atheism

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• If you want to be rich, you need to develop your vision. You must be standing on the edge of time gazing into the future.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Inspire, Vision

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• Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Strong, Real, Recovery

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.133, Shambhala Publications

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• Transformationally motivated people are the growing edge of a great continuity of souls reaching back to the very earliest times.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  People, Soul, Growing

  Barbara Marx Hubbard (2015). “Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential”, p.200, New World Library

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• Look, how they scold me for all my loving and tippling, now that the silvery edges shine forth from my brow!

  Abu Yahya al-Libi

  Grandparent, Shining, Looks

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• I have always regarded the forward edge of the battlefield as the most exclusive club in the world

  Brian Horrocks

  Military, World, Clubs

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• Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.

  Eugene Sue

  Fall, Poverty, Virtue

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• Those who declared librarians obsolete when the Internet rage first appeared are now red-faced. We need them more than ever. The Internet is full of 'stuff' but its value and readability is often questionable. 'Stuff' doesn't give you a competitive edge, high-quality related information does.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Giving, Library, Quality

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• Bright was the summer's noon when quickening steps
  Followed each other till a dreary moor
  Was crossed, a bare ridge clomb, upon whose top
  Standing alone, as from a rampart's edge,
  I overlooked the bed of Windermere,
  Like a vast river, stretching in the sun.

  William Wordsworth

  Summer, July, Rivers

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.492

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