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'Tis dangerous to think - For who by thinking tempts his jealous Fate, Is straight arraign'd as Traytor to the State, And none that come within the Verge of Sense, Have to Preferment now the least Pretence. . . . -- John Wilmot
Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge. -- Lord Byron
While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance. -- Michael K. Simpson
I love heights. I love speed. I'm on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom. -- Erin Wasson
My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic. -- Paul Feig
We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions. -- Gary Johnson
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
Future is mobile computing - smartphones and tablets are just elements of it. The industry is on the verge of a whole new paradigm. -- Thorsten Heins
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
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
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
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
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
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
Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the mid-'60s, I had great songwriters; we wrote some great stuff. -- Pete Best
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
Wherever there is one job on the verge of being lost, I will fight to save it. Wherever there is one company looking to grow in West Virginia, I will fight to make that growth a reality. -- Joe Manchin
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
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
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
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
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
If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge of producing new life forms but may soon be able to tinker with them as if they were vintage convertibles or bonsai trees. -- Michael Specter
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
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
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
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
We are on the verge of listening -- Earl Lovelace
I'm on the verge of taking a stand. -- Tom Hollander
We're on the verge of all things new. -- Billy Joel
I'm on the verge of suicide, so what's murder? -- Bushwick Bill
Every poet has trembled on the verge of science. -- Henry David Thoreau
I'm always on the verge of death in my head. -- Howie Mandel
Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid. -- Michel Gondry
I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake. -- Walt Whitman
Twilight fans are literally on the verge of being clinically insane. -- Robert Pattinson
I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up. -- Fernando Pessoa
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem. -- Alan Perlis
Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage. -- Sue Monk Kidd
It's not an exaggeration to say that we're on the verge of a meltdown. -- John Hart
The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth. -- Augustus William Hare
The government cannot become a bailout organization for companies on the verge of bankruptcy. -- Martin Winterkorn
Everyone is on the verge of insanity ... insanity meaning on the verge of the unknown. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The verge, he likes to say. That's where we want them, the utter, utter verge. -- Kathe Koja
Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish. -- Gilbert White
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We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis... -- David Rockefeller
I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence. -- Jonathan Ames
I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet. -- Mark Twain
I have a soul that like an ample shield Can take in all, and verge enough for more. -- John Dryden
If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Forests are the world's air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off. -- Prince Charles
Eternity! How know we but we stand On the precipitous and crumbling verge Of Time e'en now, Eternity below? -- Abraham Coles
Happily, at forty-six I still feel as experimental and on the verge of getting at the truth as ever. -- Virginia Woolf
When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something. -- Pema Chodron
The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always. -- Arthur Miller
I love heights. I love speed. Im on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom. -- Erin Wasson
The world turned into a big black hole while my daughter was on the verge of life and death. -- Ziauddin Yousafzai
Satan can make men dance upon the brink of hell as though they were on the verge of heaven. -- Charles Spurgeon
I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism. -- Jeanne Moreau
The turkey's eyes are such that he can see a bumblebee turn a somersault on the verge of the horizon. -- Archibald Rutledge
What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
When a man is on the verge of passing out from pain, it seemed wrong to notice how beautiful he was. -- Patricia Briggs
Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up. -- Kate Forsyth
I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me into if I were on the verge of death-plankton maybe." -Percy Jackson -- Rick Riordan
You can't have a healthy economy without sound money, which is why we're on the verge of very serious economic problem. -- Ron Paul
Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference. -- Mignon McLaughlin
[Even if the U.S. doesn't attack] Saddam Hussein is not going to survive. His regime is on the verge of implosion. -- Christopher Hitchens
Keeping a smile on your lips even when you're on the verge of tears. Feeling sorry for those who show their feelings. -- Paulo Coelho
Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil. -- Julius Lester
-You are on the verge of being truly mad. -No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See? -- Anne Rice
It's a lot easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time. -- Markus Zusak
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
Lord of the far horizons, Give us the eyes to see Over the verge of the sundown The beauty that is to be. -- Bliss Carman
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
The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven. -- Edward Young
There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything. -- Dan Chaon
In our public life, California is on the verge of being a failed state, and no state has failed in the history of this country. -- Kevin Starr
You did not just say that. I have a feeling we're on the verge of hugging and coming up with cute nicknames for each other. -- Richelle Mead
We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't have anything left. -- Ian Paisley
There is a point where the universe can deliver you from the verge of regret. I know your love for me will take you there. -- Lawren Leo
Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school. -- Will Rogers
This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we're on the verge of all things new. -- Billy Joel
Our people still need support. Support us through writing your government officials. We are still on the verge of extinction, with continued injustices brought against us. -- Leonard Peltier
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
Our wishes never seem so little desirable as when on the verge of accomplishment; we draw back instinctively, they look so different from what we expected. -- Geraldine Jewsbury
This idea that America is somehow on the verge of collapse, this vision of violence and chaos everywhere, doesn't really jibe with the experience of most people. -- Barack Obama
When your spirit is alive, when somebody has got a strong spirit, they could be on the verge of death physically, and they'll leak out more life. -- Tony Robbins
Happiness is such a fragile thing, isn't it? So easily burst, like a bubble blown by a child, and always on the verge of being carried away. -- Nenia Campbell
Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet Caporal pasted on his mug. -- James T. Farrell
You're on the verge of getting your soul and your life back and he's still what determines your happiness ? You don't need a relationship to be happy, Georgina. -- Richelle Mead
In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember. -- Edgar Allan Poe
When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement. -- Mark Twain
You blame me for weeping, but how can I help it when you will not weep for yourselves, though your immortal souls are on the verge of destruction. -- George Whitefield
Eritrean people are strong and caring. And despite all that we had been through we were brimming with optimism. Our country was on the verge of huge change. -- Abeba Habtu
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
Edit your manuscript until your fingers bleed and you have memorized every last word. Then, when you are certain you are on the verge of insanityedit one more time! -- C.K. Webb
Her mouth is always on the verge of a smile. It makes her look like there's always something amazing she needs to tell me, even when it's just hello. -- Jodi Picoult
The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on the verge of embracing or destroying us. -- Eugene Kennedy
Left to its own devices, the State Department machinery tends toward inertia rather than creativity; it is always on the verge of turning itself into an enormous cable machine. -- Henry A. Kissinger
I write with a sense of my future readers being ever on the verge of setting down the book and pronouncing it a bore. Fear and insecurity are great motivators. -- Mary Roach
And in the eveningAfter the fire and the lightOne thing is certain: Nothing can hold back the lightTime is relentlessAnd as the past disappearsWe're on the verge of all things new -- Billy Joel
The truth, it seems, is not just what you find when you open a door: it is itself a door, which the poet is always on the verge of going through. -- Margaret Atwood
Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And view the ocean leaning on the sky: From thence our rolling Neighbours we shall know, And on the Lunar world securely pry. -- John Dryden
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
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
When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit. -- Ted Turner
O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself. -- William Shakespeare
A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister. -- Hermann Hesse
It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears. -- Fran Lebowitz
Check out the produce bin in your fridge or your cabinet before you buy more. When you see something on the verge of going bad, freeze it, turn it into a sauce, make jam. -- Dana Cowin
The media is trying to portray that [Donald] Trump supporters are on the verge of abandoning him right now by highlighting how many of them wanted Hillary locked up, prosecuted, convicted, and all that. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
The media is trying to portray that [Donald] Trump supporters are on the verge of abandoning him right now by highlighting how many of them wanted Hillary locked up, prosecuted, convicted, and all that. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Tell me that you refuse to allow me to be so stupid. Tell me that you will not tolerate this relationship being over just when it was on the verge of really taking off. -- Freya North
I did not find him absurd. I saw he was kind, that he was on the verge of real love. I thought it would be nice for me to be in love with him, too. -- Francoise Sagan

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