Top 1200 Life On The Edge Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I remember traffic jams Motor boys and girls with tans Nearly was and almost rans I remember this, this ... At the edge of the continent

Science fiction is the WikiLeaks of science, getting word to the public about what cutting-edge research really means.

I don't make political statements; let's all have a laugh. Let's all live and be free. I try and live to the letter of the law, but right on the edge of it.

Picatinny Arsenal is essential to the safety of our women and men in the field and to delivering a qualitative edge for our military.

For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insulting.

It is true that these mysteries are dreadful, and people have always drawn away from them. But where can we find anything sweet and glorious that would never wear this mask, the mask of the dreadful? Whoever does not, sometimes or other, give his full consent, his full and joyous consent to the dreadfulness of life, can never take possession of the unutterable abundance and power of our existence; can only walk on its edge, and one day, when the judgment is given, will have been neither alive nor dead.

What is interesting to me is to find ways to work with early-stage innovators to build from the edge and work on tomorrows ideas.

Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes.

The '60s had edge; the '70s had embroidery.

You never know where you stand - and I like that. I like to be on edge.

It's incumbent on you to play games outside your region that will really test you. That's important to keep your edge.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.

I like something with a really great storyline, characters, and concept. I like doing things that are new and cutting edge.

I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.

The one thing that all umpires have is pride, and if you don't have pride, you lose that edge.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

Technology is an enabler; you have to be at the cutting edge of technology - there is no choice.

For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.

I like living on that edge, musically. I like a bit of insecurity and that feeling of not really knowing what's going to happen.

When people take risks and it's not rewarded, in the case of 'Mirror's Edge,' it's makes it harder for others to be comfortable taking risks.

I have a lot of Breton striped top and silk shirts that always feel good. I also like things with a masculine edge and dislike anything too girly.

There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.

I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though.

I do think we're on the edge of a terrifying world, and that many young people know that but don't know how to talk about it.

Alcohol is like anything else. It's only as bad as the person it's being poured into. If it's used to heighten an occasion, or to take an edge off stress, I don't see a problem. Trouble starts when you either lose control and let the bottle run you, or when you believe its promises of immortality. You realize that no matter how much you punish yourself, you always seem to wake up the next day. Pretty soon you're convinced that you will never die. When that happens I guess it is time to look for help before your life becomes one long, lost weekend.

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

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

Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.

Countries that innovate first get the new jobs, developing an economic edge over the C-free laggards that end up having to later import the technology.

I learned it was crucial to play right on the edge of the beat... It makes you drive the song more. You're ahead of the beat, but you're not.

A dozen extra steps becomes a tremendous aggravation when you are pushing your edge out hour after hour.

Watching Phil Mickelson play golf is like watching a drunk chasing a balloon near the edge of a cliff.

Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.

His blue eyes were very dark...Will's were the colour of the sky just on the edge of the night.

She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.

That's how I choose to approach my career. I'm constantly trying to find an edge and find the next way to improve myself.

What is interesting to me is to find ways to work with early-stage innovators to build from the edge and work on tomorrow's ideas.

Every player has to figure out what works best for them. So yes, I like the way I work, and if that gives me a competitive edge, that's great and if it doesn't that's okay too.

Our story is over, yes, but our journey isn't, because we'll always live on the edge until the day we die.

'The Knick' is set in New York during the 1990s, and it takes place around a hospital called The Knickerbocker. It's about a team of surgeons and nurses who are on the cutting edge of medicine.

Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real.

Even when I was in school, I was doing papers and writing poems; I always had an edge to my delivery. It was never conscious, but it was more so my organic way of thinking about things.

Movies, like old-school TV, are cheesy, corny. Movies are not exciting anymore. They're not cutting edge.

As a kid, when I got to the edge of a cliff I wanted to jump off. I didn't want to kill myself. I wanted to fly.

Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.

He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try.

You need to have something to motivate you, something to give you an edge.

A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire on himself out of a panegyrick on another.

I could have played Dot as a very dreary woman with a list of illnesses, but I played her with an edge, so it was funny.

Dolphins : Animals that are so intelligent that, within a few weeks of captivity, they can train a man to stand on the edge of their pool and throw them food three times a day.

When we come to an edge we come to a frontier that tells us that we are now about to become more than we have been before.

You have to decide what's important to you. For instance, myself, I mean, I lead a very, very straight-edge sort of lifestyle on the road.

The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.

Regarding why I left Inter, it was because I wanted the extra edge to fulfil my ambitions as a professional coach, so I took the risk to find my own job at Academica.

I'm very happy by myself - I'm lucky in that way - if I've got enough to read and something to write about and a bit of alcohol for me to add an edge, not to dull it.

Dying young is the easy way out. It's much harder to keep your edge and keep it going.

The smartest people I know have that extra edge. The risk is always there that youll look terribly undignified and slobbering, and inside I cringe about that, but I should be more aggressive.

Black is too morbid; red will set them on edge; pink is too juvenile; orange is freakish

Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.