Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nile Rodgers

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

CeeLo Green

To lose my mother just as I'm right on the brink of crossing that threshold over into a career, it was pretty compelling. My entire career is my mother's work, for me.

Lord Byron

Tis very puzzling on the brink Of what is called Eternity to stare, And know no more of what is here, than there

Seamus Mallon

Those who did it, those who organized it and those who give it any support or credence should know what they are doing is driving the entire community to the brink of more and more and more suffering.

Only now, on the brink of financial gamble for the power output, do we suddenly need dry cask storage.

Mary Roach

I make lists to keep my anxiety level down. If I write down 15 things to be done, I lose that vague, nagging sense that there are an overwhelming number of things to be done, all of which are on the brink of being forgotten.

He just needs to realize that he's right on that brink of really ticking off somebody he doesn't want to tick off. I think he'll figure it out.

I don't know what more motivation there is than to be on the brink of elimination and playing before fans that have been great for you all year. Ultimately, we're playing for each other in this room. But without a doubt, there isn't a guy in here that doesn't want to go out and play well and win in front of our fans. I mean, they've been unbelievable for us all year long.

France and other EU members have taken the EU to the brink of collapsing the round,

When your horse in on the brink of a precipice, it is too late to pull the reins

We are possibly on the brink of war, so it would have been a great surprise if consumer confidence hadn't fallen.

We're standing on the brink once again. You know, it's not easy, but it's better than the alternative.

We hope to prevent the devastating effects of this disease by treating the young early. While peregrines have made a comeback from the brink of extinction nationwide, there is still a need to protect their nest sites and encourage population growth in Georgia.

Bre Pettis

We're on the brink of the next industrial revolution. Instead of buying things, you can make them on a printer. When you have a 3D printer, you can iterate more - what used to take months, now takes hours.

Alexander Pushkin

Upon the brink of the wild streamHe stood, and dreamt a mighty dream.

Alexander Pushkin

Upon the brink of the wild stream He stood, and dreamt a mighty dream.

Richard Mourdock

Bipartisanship has taken us to the brink of bankruptcy. We don't need bipartisanship, we need application of principle... Where was the call for bipartisanship during the Obamacare debate? Not a single Republican voted for it. It wasn't about bipartisanship, it was about having the votes to dictate your will.

Some of them are on the brink of unable to cope any longer.

I think these guys have done great things for the school and the community and I think everyone should come out and support them. We're on the brink of having a real special season. We're just two games away from the final four.

Andrew Zimbalist

I think at the end of the day, the two sides are very reluctant to push this to the brink or over the brink. It just makes no sense. But until you get to the brink, there is going to be jockeying and posturing.

I am leaving Javelin in a good place -- well capitalized with a strong management team and on the brink of commercialization of its first product. Over the past five years, I have taken great pride and enjoyed helping to build Javelin and intend to return to the venture capital community to help entrepreneurs create earlier-stage companies.

Kate Bosworth

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

Michael Vaughan

I was obsessing. All leaders go through that. It was a very intense summer. We were on the brink of doing something special. It was like being a general on the eve of battle.

At least three of our major members are on the brink in respect to their financial situations.

Jim Nantz

As wacky and as wild as it has been to this point, we may be on the brink of having the first set of No. 1 seeds all make it.

After watching Taro reach the brink of bankruptcy, seeing their shares delisted from trading, hearing endless false promises about receiving audited financial statements, and witnessing an unchecked drain of company resources, the shareholders have clearly had enough.

Carl Pope

Taking away these protections will put the last remnants of wild places grizzlies need to fully recover and raise their young at risk from irresponsible oil drilling, unsustainable logging and sprawling development - all of which helped drive the grizzly to the brink of extinction in the first place.

Tim Finchem

I'm not quite sure what I'm going to say. We've got so many things going on. Given where we are, on the brink of going to TV (negotiations), I don't want to mislead anyone. But I want to give folks a broad sense of what we're looking at.

It was obviously teetering on the brink of collapse during the time that I was there.

They continue to say the city is teetering on the brink of financial disaster. Quite frankly it?s inappropriate, because we are not.

Joel Salatin

No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.

John Dulles

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

We always seem to get teams on the brink of desperation. They haven't won yet, it's a home game for them, and it's on turf, so we have a whole new set of challenges.