Top 124 Precipice Quotes & Sayings

When the imagination is continually led to the brink of vice by a system of terror and denunciations, people fling themselves over the precipice from the mere dread of falling.

When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy.

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

Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.

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.

Life is a picnic on a precipice.

Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.

Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.

There is By my leaning over the precipice Of your presence and your absence in hopeless fusion My finding the secret Of loving you Always for the first time

Never has our nation , or our world, stood on the precipice of adversity in such dire need of men answering the cry to rule well.

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

'Rent' was one of the main defining moments, and it was like the precipice of my transition.

To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.

There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold, or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night

I feel like I'm on the precipice - just seeing a better version of me coming out.

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

Fantastic fortune thou deceitful light, That cheats the weary traveler by night, Though on a precipice each step you tread, I am resolved to follow where you lead.

I am afraid if there is anything to be afraid of. A precipice cannot hurt you. Lions and tigers can. The streets of New York I consider more dangerous than the Matterhorn to a thoroughly competent and careful climber.

Evil is simply a grammatical error: a failure to leap the precipice between "he" and "I.

In a media instant, Sarah Palin went from an unknown moose hunter to a mass phenomenon on the precipice of becoming the vice president of the United States.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction

We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.

For me there were only two ways on the precipice - either I have to fall in or I have to fall out, to accept or say good-bye. The moment I crossed the precipice, it no longer was a discipline - it became a passion, an urge to pursue. Then I experienced freedom. Freedom comes when the discipline revolutionizes the discipline as a passion for the art.

Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.

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

Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.

What every artist should try to prevent is the car, in which is our civilized life, plunging over the side of the precipice -- the exhibitionist extremist promoter driving the whole bag of tricks into a nihilistic nothingness or zero.

He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.

If we don't want temptation to follow us, we shouldn't act as if we are interested. No one ever fell over a precipice who never went near one.

Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.

We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

Life is the art of finding or building a bridge with a great determination every time you come across a precipice!

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.

It’s only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve.

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

Ten years ago, in the aftermath of the referendum in Quebec, the very existence of Canada was on the line... I had a responsibility to ensure that Canada never again came close to the precipice.

As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive.

So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance.

To love is to live on the precipice.

He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.

Always know you could be on the precipice of something great.

In good times, we all want to drop anchor, to stop in time! But man is condemned to move till the far end of the precipice!

Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated.

Do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?

The scary thing is that I sometimes think, 'Oh, I've won a Bafta. This could be the top of the precipice.'

When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?

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.

When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

Poles offer a mobility like that of the wind that blows over the immense plains and marches of Poland. Show a Pole a precipice, and he will leap headlong over it.

You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you - a precipice of caution and a precipice of over-daring.

The edge of a precipice... That is the place where man sits throughout his life!

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.

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

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.