Precipice Quotes - Page 5

• When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's to late.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, Men, Doe

  Frank Herbert (1999). “Dune”, Ace Hardcover

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• Most marvelous and enviable is that fecundity of fancy which can adorn whatever it touches, which can invest naked fact and dry reasoning with unlooked-for beauty, make flowers bloom even on the brow of the precipice, and, when nothing better can be had, can turn the very substance of rock itself into moss and lichens. This faculty is uncomparingly the most important for the vivid and attractive exhibition of truth to the minds of men.

  Margaret Fuller

  Beauty, Truth, Flower

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• We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption.

  James Hansen

  Climate, Redemption, Tipping

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• The nations slithered over the brink into the boiling cauldron of war without any trace of apprehension or dismay... The nations backed their machines over the precipice not one of them wanted war, certainly not on this scale

  David Lloyd George

  War, Machines, Cauldrons

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• We stand on a precipice, then before a chasm, and as we wait it becomes higher, wider, deeper, but I am crazy enough to think it doesn't matter which way we leap because when we leap we will have learned to fly. Is that blasphemy or faith?

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Crazy, Thinking

  Diane Arbus (2003). “Diane Arbus: revelations”, Random House (NY)

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• I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fall off the precipice.

  Jessica Lange

  Fall, Character, Moments

  Interview With Alan Cumming, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2013.

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• We're now on the precipice of having a potentially much better economy, but the last thing we need to do is to go back to the policies that failed us in the first place.

  Hillary Clinton

  Needs, Lasts, Firsts

  Transcript: First presidential debate at Hofstra University, www.cbsnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question with a mind fresh and unshackled by former theories, though strengthened by exercise and information.

  William Hazlitt

  Philosophy, Exercise, Mind

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.2095, Delphi Classics

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• That is what thrills me, personally. Small acts of kindness; thoughtful, large acts of kindness. I feel like we're in a bit of a precipice, and I think that any beautiful energy on the kindness continuum will just help us fall into a lovelier place.

  Bellamy Young

  Beautiful, Kindness, Fall

  "Bellamy Young, ‘Scandal’ Star, Opens Up About How She Keeps Her Center In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2013.

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• For reasons known only to him, God has chosen to work through men and women who are willing to make sacrifices for the sake of the "thing" he has placed in their hearts to do. If God bas birthed a vision in you, it is only a matter of time until you will come upon the precipice of sacrifice.

  Andy Stanley

  Heart, Sacrifice, Men

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• It's very interesting being an artist and a comedian, (because) you aim for jobs that will feed your ego, but when you get up to the precipice of them, you actually have to deliver. You actually have to understand that you're reaching a new level where there are way more eyes on you, way more expectations and way more pressure.

  Chris Gethard

  Jobs, Eye, Artist

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• I took my fear to literal heights and went skydiving over a year ago. It was in that moment, gazing over the precipice of the plane, when I realized what scared me the most, the unknown.

  Kathryn Budig

  Years, Gazing, Height

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• The truth of God may well be likened to a narrow path skirted on either side by a dangerous and destructive precipice: in other words, it lies between two gulfs of error.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Lying, Errors, Two

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• He who would not fall off the precipice must not venture too near the edge.

  Frances J Roberts

  Fall, Venture, Edges

  Frances J. Roberts (2013). “On the Highroad Of Surrender - Updated”, p.127, Barbour Publishing

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• Every bridge is a holy saint; it helps everyone who comes to him and protects them from the precipices!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Bridges, Saint, Helping

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• The Devil sends the precipices; God sends the bridges! When you come across a precipice, look for the bridge; it is somewhere there!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Bridges, Devil, Looks

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• If you are close to a precipice, go away a bit; if you are far from it, come close a bit! Enjoy the safety, enjoy the view! Without safety, it is dangerous; without view, it is dull! Life is an art of adjusting the distances!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Art, Distance

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• If there is a strong will, there will always be a path even in the middle of precipices!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Strong, Path, Middle

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• Nixon identified himself as a crisis-laden man. He'd reach levels of victory and then he'd plunge into defeat. He was vice president, then he lost to Kennedy, then he lost the California governorship. Then came a great comeback and then he blew it again - and the next comeback, after he lost the presidency. He was a man who needed the feeling of walking the precipice.

  Oliver Stone

  Men, California, Feelings

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Eagles, Wings

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• And because our reason violently deters us from the brink, therefore, do we the more impetuously approach it. There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him, who shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a plunge. To indulge for a moment, in any attempt at thought, is to be inevitably lost; for reflection but urges us to forbear, and therefore it is, I say, that we cannot. If there be no friendly arm to check us, or if we fail in a sudden effort to prostrate ourselves backward from the abyss, we plunge, and are destroyed.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Passion, Reflection, Effort

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Illustrated By Arthur Rackham”, p.15, Read Books Ltd

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• A horse perceives eye contact as provocative, as if it and its status in the herd are not being respected. If it cannot avoid eye contact, it will react in a different way, by rebelling for example. In dressage you don't get anywhere by not showing respect, however superior your species might be. Any animal trainer can tell you that. In the mountains in Argentina there's a wild horse which will jump off the nearest precipice if any human tries to ride it.

  Jo Nesbo

  Horse, Eye, Animal

  Jo Nesbo (2010). “The Oslo Trilogy: The Redbreast, Nemesis and The Devil's Star”, p.164, Random House

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• In his larger forms, Schubert is a wanderer. He likes to move at the edge of the precipice, and does so with the assurance of a sleepwalker. To wander is the Romantic condition; one yields to it enraptured, or is driven and plagued by the terror of finding no escape. More often than not, happiness is but the surface of despair.

  Alfred Brendel

  Moving, Yield, Despair

  Alfred Brendel (2015). “Music, Sense and Nonsense: Collected Essays and Lectures”, p.167, Biteback Publishing

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• I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery path of female delicacy, to walk upon the heroic precipice of feminine perdition!

  Deborah Sampson

  Errors, Female, Done

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• He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Obscurity, Violence, Pushing

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.38

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