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I could serve coffee using my rear as a ledge. -- Jennifer Lopez
With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts. -- Mary Pipher
The key to life is balance, especially if you are on a ledge. -- Demetri Martin
Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge. -- Eleanor Farjeon
Standing on a ledge again. Everyone laughs at dancing monkey with the typewriter. Not for long, though. -- Neil Simon
Life balances itself on a precarious ledge, we can stay safe up high or propel off the edge. -- Tarryn Fisher
You got to be careful to not get too comfortable with incremental improvement. I think sometimes you just got to jump off a ledge. -- Merlin Mann
My garden is a forest ledge Which older forest s bound; The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge, Then plunge to depths profound! -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You need shoving, not pushing. You need to jump back on that camel. Otherwise you're going to stay up on the ledge you've made for yourself. -- Jennifer Niven
Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive. -- Ingmar Bergman
There's a man upon that ledge, he's only cleaning windows. What a shame for the pain we're missing. Gonna lean back on my wall and pray for him to fall. -- Pete Townshend
What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes and step off the ledge. The surprise was that I landed on my feet. -- Katharine Graham
The dust comes secretly day after day, Lies on my ledge and dulls my shining things. But O this dust I shall drive away Is flowers and kings, Is Solomon's temple, poets, Nineveh. -- Viola Meynell
I took a day to search for God, And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge, through woods untamed, Just where one scarlet lily flamed, I saw His foot print in the sod. -- Bliss Carman
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there- in sunny weather- stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose. -- Mark Twain
Nobody, who looks at a shard of flint lying beneath a rock ledge, or who finds a splintered log by the side of the road would ever find magic in their solitude. But in the right circumstances, if you bring them together, you can start a fire that consumes the world. -- Jodi Picoult
It is only when our fate hangs in the balance, when our very life depends on something, that we see whether or not we trust that the rope to which we are clinging will support us. If we do not, then we let of of the ledge and swing on it with our full weight. -- Margaret George
In a process that had begun in the 1980s and suddenly accelerated in the early 2000s ... [t]he peaks of great wealth grew higher, rising up beyond the clouds, while the valleys of poverty sank lower into perpetual shadow. The once broad plateau of the middle class eroded away into a narrow ledge, with the white-knuckled occupants holding on for dear life. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound. For a dangerous ledge off the lighthouse island floats in on the still air the gentle trolling of a warning bell as it swings on the rocking buoy; it might be tolling for the passing of summer and sweet weather with that persistent, pensive chime. -- Celia Thaxter
I'm fine with being beat-up and pushed around, but I'm really scared of heights and scared of ledges. -- John Cena
But I've married a deeply sensible person who is extremely good at talking me down from my various ledges, and who takes care of me in a billion ways. -- Lauren Groff
Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect, save, help- but know when to give up. They're precarious ledges to walk. How do I do it? -- Brandon Sanderson

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