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I've never seen a Brink's truck follow a hearse to the cemetery. -- Barbara Hutton
Because someone stole Gregory Peck's star on Hollywood Blvd., I have hired a Brink's guard to protect my star! -- Rip Taylor
Our God and Souldiers we alike adore,Evn at the Brink of danger; not before:After deliverance, both alike required;Our Gods forgotten, and our Souldiers slighted. -- Francis Quarles
We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face. -- John Foster Dulles
I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater. -- Agnes Smedley
We are living on the brink of the apocalypse, but the world is asleep. -- Joel C. Rosenberg
If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored. -- Dean Koontz
Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger. -- Julianna Baggott
Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave. -- Kate Bosworth
I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success. -- Joyce Meyer
Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy. -- Louis Farrakhan
Entrepreneurs can't forecast accurately, because they are trying something fundamentally new. So they will often be laughably behind plan - and on the brink of success. -- Eric Ries
No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure. -- Napoleon Hill
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. -- Giacomo Casanova
We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys. -- Bruce Sterling
When there were fears about the future of this nation's older cities... when a few of the cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, all eyes were focused on Chicago for contrast. -- Jane Byrne
If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. It's the people who are always on the brink of crisis who don't hit bottom who are in trouble. -- Anne Enright
Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him. He's on the brink of his 13th league title, after all. -- Gary Neville
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
If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state. -- Cate Blanchett
The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side. -- George Lucas
Every single day the world seems like it is on the brink of falling apart. But then I look outside my window, and things look about the same as they did a week ago. It's almost a form of cognitive dissonance. -- Moby
Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values. -- Samuel Dash
It is not surprising that most Pakistanis do not support America's bombardment of Afghanistan. The Afghans are neighbours on the brink of starvation and devastated by war. America has shown itself to be untrustworthy, a superpower that uses its values as a scabbard for its sword. -- Mohsin Hamid
In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education. -- Tom Vilsack
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. -- Richard Mourdock
The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules. -- Arianna Huffington
I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink. -- Ron Paul
I went to the brink many times. -- Gerry Harvey
Greatness is what we on the brink of. -- Nicki Minaj
Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. -- Frank Herbert
I love to live on the brink of eternity. -- David Brainerd
On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite. -- Jean Rostand
What is pink? A rose is pink By the fountain's brink. -- Christina Rossetti
Hungary is now on the brink of becoming a neo-fascist state. -- Susan Faludi
Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones. -- Max Lerner
My heart is on a budget. It keeps me on the brink. -- Anne Sexton
If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. -- John Foster Dulles
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Everyone is right up there at the very brink of their pain limit. -- Martin Amis
We're on the cusp, on the brink, of enormous change in this country. -- Jennifer Granholm
The path we're on has taken the USA to the brink of bankruptcy. -- Ted Cruz
Despair is a cavern beneath our feet and we teeter on its very brink. -- Geraldine Brooks
No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse. -- Joel Salatin
I'm constantly on the brink of tears in conversation about things that happen to people. -- Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Never so sure our rapture to createAs when it touch'd the brink of all we hate. -- William Hazlitt
Never so sure our rapture to createAs when it touch'd the brink of all we hate." -- William Hazlitt
PARENTHOOD is journey of being driven to the BRINK of INSANITY and BACKLike a YO YO!! -- Tanya Masse
The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything. -- Diane Arbus
And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past. -- John Wyndham
We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood. -- Isaac Asimov
Together we all live every moment On the very brink; The razor's edge Of ecstasy or disaster. -- Scott Hastie
Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary. -- Oscar Wilde
Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009. -- Ron Fournier
High honors are sweet To a man's heart, but ever They stand close to the brink of grief. -- Euripides
Its haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction. -- Wade Davis
It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction. -- Wade Davis
It's only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve. -- John Cleese
Satan can make men dance upon the brink of hell as though they were on the verge of heaven. -- Charles Spurgeon
When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together. -- Nile Rodgers
Iraq has gone from being on the brink to being on the mend, and it clearly has some big advantages. -- David Petraeus
Whatever Romney's failings, he certainly doesn't suggest that the United States is teetering on the brink of a moral cesspool. -- John Podhoretz
According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am. -- Vince Cable
With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
This is crazy," I told Patch in an undertone. "I'm crazy." He was on the brink of smiling again. "About you. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
How many times do you take yourself to the brink of complete collapse? It's not a real fun place to go. -- Bryan Clay
We walk the brink of racial suicide because we were smart enough to make atomic bombs and stupid enough to use them. -- David Zindell
When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink. -- Daniel Suarez
The EU is on the brink of becoming a European Federation by the year 2010... I feel sure that Britain will fall in line. -- Joschka Fischer
She had walked to the brink, abandoning all belief, and just before the bitter end, she was pulled from the abyss by faith. -- Sage Steadman
The sun was trembling on the brink of the world, the shadows at their longest, and they still had several kilometers to go. -- John Flanagan
But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink. -- John Muir
For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on air. -- Thomas Merton
I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly. -- Gary Shteyngart
An arguing couple spiraling into negativity and teetering on the brink of divorce is actually mathematically equivalent to the beginning of a nuclear war. -- Hannah Fry
Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink. -- William Styron
The Original Sin which brought us to the brink of bankruptcy and dictatorship was the Federal Income Tax Amendment and its illegitimate child, Federal Aid. -- Tom Anderson
He is always on the brink of suicide... because he seeks salvation through the routine formulas suggested to him by the society in which he lives. -- Umberto Eco
Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. -- Frank Herbert
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. -- Aaron Brookner
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. -- Denis Healey
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. -- Georgette Heyer
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. -- Bashar al-Assad
To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed. -- Edward Abbey
Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it never came. -- Raymond Carver
We may faint and we may sink Feel the pain and near the brink But the dark begins to shrink When you find the one who knows -- Jeremy Camp
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. -- Deepak Chopra
Cease, man, to mourn, to weep, to wail; Enjoy thy shining hour of sun; We dance along Death's icy brink, But is the dance less full of fun? -- Richard Francis Burton
A country that denies it, citizens, the opportunity to "civil liberties", better health care, schools, roads, electricity and water. Is a country on a brink of no return. -- Henry Johnson Jr
The flood of time is rolling on; We stand upon its brink, whilst they are gone To glide in peace down death's mysterious stream. Have ye done well? -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
During the next four years...unless drastic steps are taken by Congress, the U.S. will have nearly 8,000,000 unemployed and will stand on the brink of a deep depression. -- Henry A. Wallace
This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness. -- Isaac Mayer Wise
Looking back, my greatest regret is not that I didn't love them enough (to the brink of insanity and back again), but that I couldn't save them from themselves. -- Bailey Vincent
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. -- Garry Kasparov
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. -- Sylvia Plath
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. -- Hippolyte Taine
On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance orders that they believed to be illegal. -- Barton Gellman
As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity. -- Iris Murdoch
Whether it's overeating or it's overworking or over-sex or whatever it is, alcoholism, drug addition, we push ourselves to the brink and then pull back because it's kind of exciting. -- Anthony Hopkins
Europe is standing on the brink of the greatest tragedy in the history of the human race: a new world war, that may involve the doom of our entire civilisation. -- Vidkun Quisling
Life has become terribly insecure. It's on the vortex of civil war. It's difficult to know how America will bring it back from the brink and build up good will. -- Jon Lee Anderson
We are left at the brink of our future each day and the only real choice we have is not to jump but instead make our path through the briar. -- Thomm Quackenbush
When traveling in rural Africa, it's important to not actually *go* to a hospital until the patient is on the brink of expiration, otherwise things are apt to get worse. -- Josh Gates
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. -- William Hazlitt
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. -- Frank Sinatra
I swim in a shaft of light, upside down, and I can see myself clearly, through and through, from every angle. Perhaps I stand on the brink of a great discovery. -- Jamaica Kincaid
At the punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in Japan: first the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man! -- Edward Rowland Sill
Things in the margins, including humans who wander there, are often on the brink of becoming someone else, or something else, whose memory may not include the significance of old markers. -- Barbara Hurd
It just goes to show that what one person considers a "bad attitude" might actually just be total frustration over being pushed beyond the brink of one's mental and physical endurance. -- Meg Cabot
The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now. -- Eckhart Tolle
Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader browner shade; Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's rushy brink With me the Muse shall sit, and think. -- Thomas Gray
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. -- CeeLo Green
This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity. -- Ann Voskamp
So when that Angel of the darker Drink, at last shall find you by the river-brink, And, offering his Cup, invite your Soul forth to your Lips to quaff-you shall not shrink. -- Omar Khayyam
If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. Its the people who are always on the brink of crisis who dont hit bottom who are in trouble. -- Anne Enright
I seemed to be upon the verge of comprehension, without the power to comprehend as men, at time, find themselves upon the brink of rememberance, without being able, in the end, to remember. -- Edgar Allan Poe
An arresting testimony to the haunting power of friendships, THE AFTER GIRLS is a story that understands what it is to be passionate, confused, and on the brink. I loved every resonant word. -- Micol Ostow
We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full. -- Thomas Merton
Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madmanWhich is probably the same thing! -- Apostolos Doxiadis
Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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