Ledges Quotes

• I could serve coffee using my rear as a ledge.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Coffee

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• Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Tired, Climbing, Views

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• The key to life is balance, especially if you are on a ledge.

  Demetri Martin

  Keys, Balance, Life Is

  Twitter post from May 10, 2011

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• Life balances itself on a precarious ledge, we can stay safe up high or propel off the edge.

  Tarryn Fisher

  Balance, Safe, Precarious

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• I took a day to search for God, And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge, through woods untamed, Just where one scarlet lily flamed, I saw His foot print in the sod.

  Bliss Carman

  Feet, Untamed, Lilies

  Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart

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• My garden is a forest ledge
  Which older forest s bound;
  The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge,
  Then plunge to depths profound!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Garden, Lakes, Blue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.231, Delphi Classics

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• Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Civilization, Black

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.362

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• ... to keep moving up ... , you have to abandon the security of that ledge and reach for another hold. Letting go of that sense of security.. is the challenge. ... think of yourself as climbing a ladder. To move to the next rung, you must give up your grip and reach for the next one.

  Nick Vujicic

  Letting Go, Giving Up, Moving

  Nick Vujicic (2010). “Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life”, p.149, WaterBrook

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• Humor is an amazing way to talk people down off a ledge.

  Joe Elliott

  People, Way

  "Interview with Joe Elliott of Def Leppard on Music, Humor, and Contributing to the Arts". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Nobody, who looks at a shard of flint lying beneath a rock ledge, or who finds a splintered log by the side of the road would ever find magic in their solitude. But in the right circumstances, if you bring them together, you can start a fire that consumes the world.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Fire, Rocks

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.434, Simon and Schuster

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• You need shoving, not pushing. You need to jump back on that camel. Otherwise you're going to stay up on the ledge you've made for yourself.

  Jennifer Niven

  Inspiration, Camels, Needs

  Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.106, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.

  Mary Pipher

  Meditation Practice, Waterfalls, Found

  Mary Pipher (2009). “Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World”, p.121, Penguin

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• We’re staying together,” he promised. “You’re not getting away from me. Never again.” Only then did she understand what would happen. A one-way trip. A very hard fall. ”As long as we’re together,” she said. She heard Nico and Hazel still screaming for help. She saw sunlight far, far above- maybe the last sunlight she would ever see. Then Percy let go of his ledge, and together, holding hands, he and Annabeth fell into the endless darkness.

  Rick Riordan

  Letting Go, Fall, Hands

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• Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once. Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Ocean, Live Life, Thinking

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.155, Google Publishing

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• We're starting to realize that magicians have a lot of implicit know-ledge about how we perceive the world around us because they have to deceive us in terms of controlling attention, exploiting the assumptions we make when we do and don't notice a change in our environment. There is an enormous amount of really detailed instruction on how to perform magic. People are always blown away by how detailed a description you'll have.

  Richard Wiseman

  People, Magic, Attention

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• I became so desperate that I considered throwing Eric [Beck] off the ledge. I thought I could get down and then lie about what had happened. To my addled brain, this was plausible. Then I came to my senses and woke Eric up and told him that either he had to retreat or I'd throw him off. We went down and I never climbed again for a quarter of a century.

  Dave Cook

  Lying, Climbing, Brain

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• What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes and step off the ledge. The surprise was that I landed on my feet.

  Katharine Graham

  Eye, Feet, Steps

  "Washington Post's Graham Dies", www.wired.com. July 17, 2001.

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• It is only when our fate hangs in the balance, when our very life depends on something, that we see whether or not we trust that the rope to which we are clinging will support us. If we do not, then we let of of the ledge and swing on it with our full weight.

  Margaret George

  Fate, Swings, Support

  Margaret George (2011). “The Memoirs of Cleopatra”, p.102, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm interested in smokers standing on ledges, and big box stores, the rise of the suburbs, and the hollowing out of small towns. Self-storage. Things that didn't exist 50 years ago. Our common culture. What we have agreed is OK to live with.

  Sam Abell

  Self, Years, Culture

  Source: aphotoeditor.com

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• We only came close to dying six or seven times, which I thought was pretty good. Once, I lost my grip and found myself dangling by one hand from a ledge fifty feet above the rocky surf. But I found another handhold and kept climbing. A minute later Annabeth hit a slippery patch of moss and her foot slipped. Fortunately, she found something else to put it against. Unfortunately, that something was my face. "Sorry," she murrmured. "S'okay," I grunted, though I'd never really wanted to know what Annabeth's sneaker tasted like.

  Rick Riordan

  Sorry, Sneakers, Feet

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Half the time, my job is basically to talk people off the ledge. It's more psychological than just me picking up some sticks and counting, "1, 2, 3, 4."

  Questlove

  Jobs, People, Sticks

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The word "knowledge" itself, we like to break it down into two different words, "know" and "ledge." You've got to know the ledge. Know the limitation of things. Know where they go, know where they start from. We say knowledge is the basic foundation of the universe. But everything is first based on something being known. Then, when it's known, then it can be manifested.

  RZA

  Two, Different, Firsts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I know what my heart is like Since your love died: It is like a hollow ledge Holding a little pool Left there by the tide, A little tepid pool, Drying inward from the edge.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Heart, Inward, Littles

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.61, Library of America

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• Even though I knew she wasn't going to jump, seeing her standing on the ledge made me realize that I want and need her in my life forever. She challenges me, pushes me, and pisses me off, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Forever, Challenges, Needs

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• You got to be careful to not get too comfortable with incremental improvement. I think sometimes you just got to jump off a ledge.

  Merlin Mann

  Thinking, Improvement, Sometimes

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