A Quote by Edith Wharton

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton
American - Novelist
January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

Edith Wharton

How often does the tightrope walker balance when walking across the tightrope? All the time! It is the same thing if you really want to have a successful career, and you want to have a happy home life. It is a matter of balance.

Brian Tracy

Isabella is a woman who kind of walks on a tightrope. She walks on that tightrope because in the 'Narcos' society that she was born in, it reflects all of the cultural things that society imposes.

Teresa Ruiz

You must walk that tightrope between accident and discipline. Accident by itself…so what? Discipline by itself is boring. By walking that tightrope and putting down something on a canvascoming from your guts, you have a chance of making marks that will live longer than you.

Fritz Scholder

I treat my life as though I am on a tightrope.

Don McCullin

Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.

Larry Wilcox

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

William Arthur Ward

If one's life depends on doing something right, as in the case of the tightrope walker, one will practice on a much deeper level.

Kenny Werner

Often, contrasts bring art to life: the bright speck of paint on a dark canvas; the tightrope walk between humor and tragedy.

Laura van den Berg

It was a Monday and they walked on a tightrope to the sun.

Markus Zusak

Living with coronavirus is a tightrope walk.

Uddhav Thackeray

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg.

Henri Nouwen

To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.