Top 251 Brink Quotes & Sayings

High honors are sweet To a man's heart, but ever They stand close to the brink of grief.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

My heart is on a budget. It keeps me on the brink.

Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.

Hungary is now on the brink of becoming a neo-fascist state.

You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war. Some say that we were brought to the verge of war. Of course we were brought to the verge of war. The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art... If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. We've had to look it square in the face... We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face. We took strong action.

Satan can make men dance upon the brink of hell as though they were on the verge of heaven.

We brought Safeco back from the brink of failure.

With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.

If I didn't think, I'd be much happier; if I didn't have any sex organs, I wouldn't waver on the brink of nervous emotion and tears all the time.

When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.

We are living on the brink of the apocalypse, but the world is asleep.

Losing can persuade you to change what doesn't need to be changed, and winning can convince you everything is fine even if you are on the brink of disaster.

Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009.

Obviously there was Keith Haring and Robert Mapplethorpe, but Howard was on the brink of becoming a famous director - it didn't happen because he died.

We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.

Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.

Wouldn't it be nice if human nature could learn stuff before we get to the brink? It seems we have to experience it first.

The right hon. Gentleman will be known for ever as the only Chancellor in the post-war period who brought this country to the brink of bankruptcy.

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.

When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost

We're on the cusp, on the brink, of enormous change in this country.

If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

The path we're on has taken the USA to the brink of bankruptcy.

Out of the total number of the persons designated for the execution, fifteen men were led in each case to the brink of the mass grave where they had to kneel down, their faces turned towards the grave. When the men were ready for the execution one of my leaders who was in charge of this execution squad gave the order to shoot. Since they were kneeling on the brink of the mass grave, the victims fell, as a rule, at once into the mass grave.

Together we all live every moment On the very brink; The razor’s edge Of ecstasy or disaster.

Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.

Everyone is right up there at the very brink of their pain limit.

Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink.

I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.

It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.

My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure... I started bartending and waitressing.

Its haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.

According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.

You are the promised kiss of springtime that makes the lonely winter seem long. You are the breathless hush of evening that trembles on the brink of a lovely song.

The sun was trembling on the brink of the world, the shadows at their longest, and they still had several kilometers to go.

It is difficult for anyone to tell you what is going to happen. [Middle East] is an area where everything is on the brink of explosion.

It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.

Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.

Cultural Marxism that has permeated all of Europe and has been the driving force that has brought France - the nation of Liberty, Fraternity and Equality - to the brink.

... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: "I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved.

To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at least once.

Greatness is what we on the brink of.

I love to live on the brink of eternity.

We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face.

I'm constantly on the brink of tears in conversation about things that happen to people.

How many times do you take yourself to the brink of complete collapse? It's not a real fun place to go.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success.

On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.

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

Whatever Romney's failings, he certainly doesn't suggest that the United States is teetering on the brink of a moral cesspool.

You can tell when you look at someone and think 'he's on the brink of fainting' or that certainly something's not right.

If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.

But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink.

I went to the brink many times. A couple of times I thought "I'm gone, This is it." But then you would just keep working. I think if you're close to the brink and just make sure that you work twice as hard and put twice as much effort into everything and the people around you and everything, you should come through.

I've never seen a Brink's truck follow a hearse to the cemetery.

The EU is on the brink of becoming a European Federation by the year 2010... I feel sure that Britain will fall in line.

Despair is a cavern beneath our feet and we teeter on its very brink.

Life is a walk to the edge of a cliff. Every day we get a step nearer and what lies over the brink, no one can tell.