Edges Quotes - Page 24

• True beauty, the kind that doesn't fade or wash off, takes time. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that creates the stalactite, the shaking of the Earth that creates mountains, the constant pounding of the waves that breaks up the rocks and smooths the rough edges. And from the violence, the furor, the raging of the winds, the roaring of the waters, something better emerges, something that would have otherwise never existed.

  Amy Harmon

  Life, Rocks, Wind

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• Anytime that is ‘betwixt and between’ or transitional is the faeries’ favorite time. They inhabit transitional spaces: the bottom of the garden, existing in a space between manmade cultivation and wilderness. Look for them in the space between nurture and nature, they are to be found at all boarders and boundaries, or on the edges of water where it is neither land nor lake, neither path nor pond. They come when we are half-asleep. They come at moments when we least expect them; when our rational mind balances with the fluid irrational.

  Brian Froud

  Garden, Lakes, Land

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• At the edge of our world, at the edge of the otherworld, the beautiful and mysterious faeries stand, watching and waiting to greet us, inviting us to journey with them as our guides while we walk the infinite paths of the Faerie.

  Brian Froud

  Beautiful, Journey, Our World

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• Ann Winder-Boyle's small-scale encaustic pictures always reward a second look - they have an intriguing edge of darkness about them.

  Andrew Graham-Dixon

  Darkness, Rewards, Looks

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• Life should be lived on the edge of life. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge - and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope.

  Philippe Petit

  Exercise, Years, Ideas

  "Man on Wire", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• Life should be lived on the edge of life.

  Philippe Petit

  Existential, Should

  "Man on Wire", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• Some say Christianity is just a crutch. But let's turn the question on its edge for a moment. Is atheism an emotional crutch, wishful thinking? The ax cuts both ways. Perhaps atheists are rejecting God because they've had a bad relationship with their father. Instead of inventing God, have atheists invented non-God? Have they invented atheism to escape some of the frightening implications of God's existence? Think about it.

  Greg Koukl

  Atheist, Father, Cutting

  "Is Atheism a Crutch?". str.typepad.com. March 24, 2010.

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• My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Photography

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• While I wholeheartedly support finding cost savings through efficiencies in all areas of the federal government, including defense, I will resist any actions that would compromise our nation’s qualitative edge when it comes to national defense. It is well known that weakness invites aggression. Threats do not always announce themselves in advance. In order to prepare for unpredictable threats, we must modernize our defense systems. We certainly cannot let them age and deteriorate.

  Doug Lamborn

  Government, Order, Support

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• Knicks and dull edges are abominations, so use knives and hatchets for nothing but they were made for.

  Horace Kephart

  Knives, Use, Dull

  Horace Kephart (1922). “Camping”

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• It was the strangest sensation, fallin' in love. 'Bout the only thing I compare it to would be jumpin' off a big cliff. Once you're past the edge, there ain't no particular reason to be graspin' for a line a safety. You just keep on fallin' anyhow, so you might as well enjoy it the whole way down.

  Dorothy Garlock

  I Love You, Falling In Love, Past

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• It's the originality of Pauls Toutonghi's voice and vision that makes this such a remarkable novel. Toutonghi is a true daredevil of a writer, and this fantastically hilarious and affecting book will have you on the edge of your seat.

  Skip Horack

  Book, Voice, Vision

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• You may never reach that glorious moment until you die, so live life on the edge halfway between heaven and hell...and let's all dance in the middle in purgatory.

  Lady Gaga

  Live Life, Heaven, May

  "Lady Gaga dishes on sex drugs, born this way on Howard Stern" by Gil Kaufman, www.mtv.com. July 18, 2011.

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• As the middle begins to feel safe enough to accept some of the so-called radical thinking, ideas move to the middle and a new edge is created.

  Jasmine Guy

  Moving, Thinking, Ideas

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• All socialists have bad backs because we slouch - except when we're watching the news when we sit on the edge of our seats, shout, and wave our arms. Generally we sit hunched, arms crossed in a judgemental way, the whole of our bodies pulled into a frown.

  Jeremy Hardy

  Judgemental, News, Body

  "Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation", BBC Radio 4, 2007.

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• For me, the entire journey of Lost has been walking that fine line between discovering Sawyer's humanity and, yet, keeping his edge of anger and destructiveness. He's been through every situation possible, emotionally and physically. Sometimes, it's been scary to get in touch with his growth, especially his relationship with Juliet. I really thought the audience might reject the softer side of Sawyer we saw in that. As for what will happen with him and Kate, all I can say is they have a love that is undeniable, but maybe it must be denied.

  Josh Holloway

  Journey, Scary, Humanity

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• I think it's more fun to play a hero with an edge.

  Shawn Ashmore

  Fun, Hero, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think it’s the misperception of addiction and living life on the edge, as if it’s cool.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Live Life, Thinking, Addiction

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• I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor and surviving.

  Marlon Brando

  Dream, Razors, Nightmare

  "Fictional character: Colonel Walter E. Kurtz". "Apocalypse Now", www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• Im such a work in progress at the moment, its crazy, and life wants me on edge, I swear to you. But as long as I dont forget the past, Im cool. One must always be mindful, just like you might forget that old girlfriend who tried to slit your throat, but shes really still hot. If you remember the stitches more than you remember the pussy, youre going to be just fine.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Girlfriend, Crazy, Past

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• Greatness lives on the edge of destruction

  Will Smith

  Greatness, Destruction, Life On The Edge

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• I'm Straight Edge for me, so what everyone else is doing, it doesn't matter. I've never been pressured to drink or smoke or anything by any of the boys, and if anything, a lot of them like me because I'm always the designated driver. I'm the one who makes sure everyone gets home alright and I'm happy doing that.

  CM Punk

  Home, Boys, Wwe

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. December 1, 2006.

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• It's interesting as one grows older to keep in touch with the cutting edge.

  Faye Dunaway

  Cutting, Interesting, Grows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You must have - besides intuition and sensitivity - a cutting edge that allows you to reach what you need. Also, you have to know life - bastards included - and it takes a bit of one to know one, don't you think?

  Laurence Olivier

  Cutting, Thinking, Intuition

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

  Danny DeVito

  Fun, Thinking, Safe

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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