Over The Edge Quotes

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  You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.

  Dale Earnhardt

  Mean, Winning, Driving

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• I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Want, Kind, Standing On The Edge

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Oct 01, 2012

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• When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Inspirational, Land, Bounds

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)”, p.983, D. H. Lawrence

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• In order to find the edge, you must risk going over the edge.

  Dennis Dugan

  Order, Risk, Edges

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• For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on air.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Fall, Air

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.218, Shambhala Publications

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• The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Inspirational, Crazy, Epic

  Hunter S. Thompson (2003). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.530, Simon and Schuster

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• People aren't just ants rushing around over a crust of bread. Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundreds of others. It's up to us to decide if those micro connections are positive or negative. But whichever we decide, it does impact the ones we deal with. One word can give someone the strength they needed at that moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburst or word could be the tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge into destruction.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Smile, Impact, Rushing

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2012). “Infamous: Chronicles of Nick”, p.244, Macmillan

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• What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale.

  Rebecca Wells

  Years, Tales, Knows

  Rebecca Wells (2009). “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: Novel, A”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fun, Remembers You, Remember You

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Mess, Havens, Edges

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• Life is frustrating enough. Your hobby isn't supposed to put you over the edge.

  Gary LeVox

  Hobbies, Life Is, Enough

  "Rascal Flatts Talk Las Vegas Residency & Tour With Kelsea Ballerini". Interview With Chuck Dauphin, www.billboard.com. February 2, 2016.

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• The Edge...There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others-the living-are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later. But the edge is still Out there.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  People, Hunters, Gone

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Sep 05, 2014

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• Laughter is what spills over the edge of an inspired life.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Laughter, Inspired, Spills

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• I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.

  Jodi Picoult

  Dream, Fall, World

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.

  George Eliot

  Love You, Pride, Thinking

  George Eliot “Middlemarch, Volume III”, Lulu.com

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• But love, sooner or later, forces us out of time...of all that we feel and do, all the virtues and all the sins, love alone crowds us at last over the edge of the world. For love is always more than a little strange here...It is in the world, but is not altogether of it. It is of eternity. It takes us there when it most holds us here.

  Wendell Berry

  Love Is, World, Crowds

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• What athletes do may not be that healthy, the way we push our bodies completely over the edge to the degrees that are not human. I've said all along that I will not live as long as the average person.

  Lance Armstrong

  Athlete, Average, Long

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• It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.

  Johnny Cash

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "Music's Man in Black". Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• Let’s talk, you and I. Let’s talk about fear. The house is empty as I write this; a cold February rain is falling outside. It’s night. Sometimes when the wind blows the way it’s blowing now, we lose the power. But for now it’s on, and so let’s talk very honestly about fear. Let’s talk very rationally about moving to the rim of madnessand... and perhaps over the edge.

  Stephen King

  Rain, Moving, Fall

  Stephen King (2008). “Night Shift”, p.11, Anchor

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• The smallest decisions made had such profound repercussions. One ten-minute wait could save a life… Or end it… One wrong turn down the right street or one seemingly unimportant conversation, and everything was changed. It wasn’t right that each lifetime was defined, ruined, ended, and made by such seemingly innocuous details. A major life-threatening event should come with a flashing warning sign that either said ABANDON ALL HOPE or SAFETY AHEAD. It was the cruelest joke of all that no one could see the most vicious curves until they were over the edge, falling into the abyss below.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fall, Curves, Safety

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.344, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Essay on Adam" There are five possibilities. One: Adam fell. Two: he was pushed. Three: he jumped. Four: he only looked over the edge, and one look silenced him. Five: nothing worth mentioning happened to Adam. The first, that he fell, is too simple. The fourth, fear, we have tried and found useless. The fifth, nothing happened, is dull. The choice is between: he jumped or was pushed. And the difference between these is only an issue of whether the demons work from the inside out or from the outside in: the one theological question.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Simple, Two, Differences

  Robert Bringhurst (2010). “Selected Poems”, p.33, Random House

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• You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin.

  George Eliot

  Work, Love You, Play

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.608, Booklassic

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• I don't go to scary movies. I don't like the experience of being scared. I think it's very weird that some people do. Obviously, humans are the only animals that do that. You don't see a wolf walk to the end of a cliff and look over the edge to freak himself out.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Animal, Thinking, People

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• The mother eagle teaches her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside. And just so does our God to us. He stirs up our comfortable nests, and pushes us over the edge of them, and we are forced to use our wings to save ourselves from fatal falling. Read your trials in this light, and see if you cannot begin to get a glimpse of their meaning. Your wings are being developed.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Mother, Fall, Light

  Hannah Whitall Smith (1888). “The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life”

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• You never think you're on the verge of disaster while you're looking over the edge yourself. It's your friends and family who are trying to get you to stop destroying yourself and after a while it kind of sank in and I just cleaned up my act.

  Johnny Depp

  Thinking, Alcohol, Drug

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