Verge Quotes

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
Tennessee Williams

Life, Strong, Person

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.
Paul Tillich

Life, Faith, God

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
Lord Byron

Life, Night, Two

Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
Paul Cezanne

Busy, Place, Here

I feel bad for the kids that are in school right now and the young people all across America who don't realize that the grownups who are supposed to be running this country are the verge of leaving them as the first generation of Americans worse off than the generation before.
Marco Rubio

School, Bad, Country

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
Germaine Greer

Women, Death, Society

We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that.
Marco Rubio

Success, Nature, Character

You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one - I can't speak for you, but I'm on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show.
Glenn Beck

Time, End, Happen

I think the acquisition of consumers might be on the verge of being mapped. The battlefield is going to be retention and lifetime value.
Gary Vaynerchuk

Might, Value, Lifetime

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.
John Foster Dulles

My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.
Paul Feig

Real, Comedy, Style

It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces.
Lewis Thomas

Human, Picture, Watching

We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
Gary Johnson

Tough, Decisions, Means

While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance.
Michael K. Simpson

Nothing, Energy, Nation

So many times I've wanted to crack up, standing there stiff while seven women are crawling round my toes fixing hems and the designer's having a freak-out because the denim cuffs are crooked. I'm on the verge of hysteria.
Helena Christensen

Women, Wanted, Times

Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change.
Daniel Keys Moran

Change, Human, Means

I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump.
Willem Dafoe

Time, Whole, Until

Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system.
Kay Bailey Hutchison

Leadership, Country, Social

Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.
Robert Blair

Maturity, Whole, Whatever

Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.
Gilbert White

Summer, Ground, Numbers

To my mind, what we ought to have maintained from the beginning was the strictest neutrality. If we had done this, I do not believe we would have been on the verge of war at the present time.
George William Norris

Time, War, Mind

When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.
Felicity Kendal

Thought, Special, Used

Future is mobile computing - smartphones and tablets are just elements of it. The industry is on the verge of a whole new paradigm.
Thorstein Heins

Future, Whole, Industry

I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
A. J. Jacobs

Time, Diet, Live

I remember in 2000, when President Clinton came to Cartagena just before Plan Colombia started, the country was on the verge of becoming a failed state. Today, we are one of the most solid democracies, where institutions are working, where the scandals such as false positives have come to light because of those functioning institutions.
Juan Manuel Santos

Today, Country, Remember

We are confronting a situation in which the Administration, in my view, is once again manufacturing a crisis. There is no crisis in the Social Security system. The system is not on the verge of bankruptcy.
Paul Sarbanes

Crisis, Again, Once

The administration in my view is once again manufacturing a crisis. There is no crisis in the Social Security system. The system is not on the verge of bankruptcy.
Paul Sarbanes

Crisis, Again, Once

Once the troops move into Cambodia, the colleges and universities of this country were on the verge of civil war. Many closed down. The students were up in arms. And it looked very much like there were going to be real problems in this country.
William Kunstler

War, Real, Down

If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America.
Ron Dellums

Truth, America, Young

But despite historic levels of obstruction, President Obama was able to bring the economy back from the verge of a second Great Depression.
Steny Hoyer

Great, Depression, Able

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