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Andoya is in a different world, set at the northern edge of Europe in what seems to be a time and weather of its own. — John Burnside

When it comes to foreign policy, it is important to remember that politics stops at the water's edge. — Hillary Clinton

Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge
the abyss. — Guillermo Del Toro

She knew what she looked like - someone at the edge of catastrophe, someone already flinching from a blow that had not yet been delivered. — Josephine Humphreys

Never being, but always at the edge of Being. — Stephen Spender

We have a long-standing tradition in this country to follow the advice of Senator Vandenberg, which is that politics ends at the water's edge. — Mitt Romney

The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution. — Ellen Key

To love a man, you must know his sins.'"
"At the Edge of the World. — Avi

It is at the edge of intelligence that wisdom awaits. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Too much change is as destructive as too little. Only at the edge of chaos can complex systems flourish. — Michael Crichton

Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Sometimes you don't realize your fear of heights until you stand at the edge of the cliff, ready to jump. — BlueMystique

A twinge at the edge of her lips and she continued, the soft, slow lilt of recitation: Ancient walls that sing the distant hours. — Kate Morton

We live at the edge of the world, so we live on the edge. Kiwis will always sacrifice money and security for adventure and challenge. — Lucy Lawless

I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fall off the precipice. — Jessica Lange

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

I want to know if you can live with failure yours and mine and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon,"Yes." ... — Oriah Dreamer

HOWARD ROARK LAUGHED. He stood naked at the edge of a cliff. The lake lay far below him. — Ayn Rand

I'm a minimalist at heart. If a song doesn't need a solo, I'm not going to force one into it. — The Edge

The low carbon economy is at the leading edge of a structural shift now taking place globally. — William Hague

The best thing about living at the water's edge: You only have assholes on three sides of you, and if they come this way you can hear them splash. — George Carlin

Writers are always at the edge of the inferno, and the fire is licking at our toes. Luckily, this turns us on! — Erica Jong

And the distance between them, millimeters only, the space of a breath, opened up and deepened, became a cavern at whose edge he stood. — Kim Edwards

It's a big wide world, after all, and Mattawa, Washington, perched on the edge of it, is somewhere in between Nowhere and Nothing At All. — Elise Forier Edie

Work is most fulfilling when you're at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing. — Alain De Botton

We die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing. — Amin Maalouf

It is at the edge of the
petal that love waits — William Carlos Williams

[ ... ] how can one sleep while dancing at the edge of waves? — Michel Faber

up shells, and waded at the water's edge, — Danielle Steel

That's all right," she told him. "I can manage. I can sleep outside just fine."
Four pairs of eyes looked at her with a distinctly male skepticism. — Ilona Andrews

The financial world is at the cutting edge of high technology. — Robert Harris

I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble. — Raymond Chandler

even after all these winters, I see you sitting there, perched at the edge of sunlight, feeling like the invitation of spring — Brian Andreas

Only the mockingbird sings at the edge of the woods. — Walter Tevis

Those who die never truly leave us. They are forever there beyond the shimmering of light at the edge of sight. — Vanna Smythe

Those who escaped the noose settled here, at the very bottom, the absolute edge of peculiar society. Exiled from the outcasts of outcasts — Ransom Riggs

The stark evening sun at the far edge of the town had just unzipped the sky and finally gone down. — Jack Bunbury

Patience is never more important than when you are at the edge of losing it. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

The edge in modern painting is charged with neurosis; it meets a world that no longer confirms it but which is hostile or at best indifferent. — Andrew Graham-Dixon

She did not arrive at Annandale without taking the chisel to herself more than once, without rubbing up against a few boys to smooth an edge or two. — Thomm Quackenbush

I don't regret the decision to retire. My body was losing its edge. I was taking longer to recover from injuries. You have to get out at some point. — David Beckham

Sometimes when we're standing at the edge, we don't need anyone to talk us down ... we just need a push. — Buffi Neal

War is an initiation into the power of life and death. Women touch that power on the moment of birth, men at the edge of death. — William Broyles Jr.

I'm going to let my friends in the other parties fight over the turf at the cutting edge of the status quo. — Elizabeth May

And he has to live like this on the edge of destruction, alone, with nobody at all to understand or pity him — Leo Tolstoy

Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof. — Rumi

A moon shining a broken road oversea; a lone woman naked to her waist waits at the edge of moonlight; a shadow person watching for meaning somewhere. — Keri Hulme

The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field. — Jerome Bruner

Because I love you," I said. "Because you are in my life like the music at the edge of silence. — Robert B. Parker

Emotional intelligence is what humans are good at and that's not a sideshow. That's the cutting edge of human intelligence. — Ray Kurzweil

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs. — Henry Ford

At the fringe edge of advancement it's a war of anarchy and chaos. — Bryant McGill

At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe. — Michael Crichton

Being out on the edge, with everything at risk, is where you learn and grow the most. — Jim Whittaker

Man who is at the edge of a precipice has always a better chance to understand the universe than a man who is far away from that precipice! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We are all in "the perpetual quest for keeping oneself occupied, entertained, and important - which burns at the edge of addiction. — Jana Richman

And out of nowhere, I think: So this is how it feels to stand at the edge of a canyon. — Ally Condie

You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid. — Tom Stoppard

XXIV. And kneeling at the edge of the transparent sea I shall shape for myself a new heart from salt and mud — Anne Carson

Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology. — Alexander McCall Smith

When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense. — Denis Hayes

She moves me not, or not removes at least affection's edge in me. — William Shakespeare

There are no walls at the edge of this universe ...
absence of gravity is the limit of space existence. — Toba Beta

Do you know why it is that when a rancher fucks a sheep he does it at the edge of a cliff? It's so the sheep will push back. — George Carlin

One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness in democracy. — Stefan Halper

I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful. — A.S. Byatt

Technology is an enabler; you have to be at the cutting edge of technology - there is no choice. — Uday Kotak

It is at the edge of a petal that love waits. — William Carlos Williams

Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today. — Arthur Kroker

I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled. — Cate Tiernan

Every soccer player can be on the edge, at the limit, be the bad guy. We have to get used to it. Sometimes I am one of those. — Luis Suarez

It's fun talking to you ... like walking on the edge of a precipice. At first one's nervous but then courage takes over from somewhere. — Ivan Turgenev

At the edge of heartbreak, we both take a leap into the unknown...That's when we see it, a buoy callled friendship. — Nikki Grimes

Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life. — James Clavell

The waves were shadows, snakes under a quilt, creeping in almost unseen until they emerged in milky ripples at the water's edge. — Winston Graham

It matters little that you are afraid if you manage to hide it. You are then at the edge of courage. (one of Jaujard's philosophies) — Robert M. Edsel

Jacques Rudolph at the moment is using the inside edge as much as the middle of the bat. — Ian Botham

Why do I feel like I'm at the edge of a hole? — Audrey Niffenegger

It's so still she can almost hear the thrum of the cosmos, its pulse trembling at the edge of perception — Michael Allan Scott

I need you to get down there, open the stalls inside, and panic the horses."
" 'Panic'?" Gaston asked.
"Smile at them or something. — Ilona Andrews

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind. — Anne Carson

She was right. Peace was the way.
She was right. But at the wrong time. — James Blish

They weren't a centuries old hunter and a seventeen year old girl, sitting here at the edge of the world. They were just two people, Bonnie and Damon. — L.J.Smith

Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century. — Barbara Amiel

Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is. — Chuck Palahniuk

Suddenly, I feel like a piece of china, ill-placed at the edge of a table, vulnerable to shattering with the slightest bump or misstep. — Jenna Nelson

I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q ... — Aimee Bender

Morning larks called to one another from the shallows at the river's edge, and the sky began to silver behind the friar like a halo. — Julie Berry

Edges of the ocean. The water is what ties us together, yes? You at one edge, me at the other, but the same ocean, the same water. — Patti Callahan Henry

I thought of all the ancestors waiting at the water's edge for their stolen children to come home. Waiting and waiting and waiting . . . — Laurie Halse Anderson

This is the human way, she thought. On the edge of destruction, at the end of all things, we still dance. And hope. — Rosamund Hodge

No man could truly say what he was until he had been pushed to the edge of things with the precipice of his own ruin staring up at him. — Paul Kearney

Our trees
were nuns at the edge of our plans, praying for us — Sue Goyette

The sun
Setting
Through
Pines Trees
At the edge
Of town
Makes me squint and
Smie — Matthew Quick

To write is to stand at the edge of a bottomless well, unafraid of falling in. — Steven Ramirez

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you. — Billy Collins

I think the Dudleys are mad at us, well, because we're beautiful! — Edge

The two girls grew up at the edge of the ocean and knew it was paradise, and better than Eden, which was only a garden. — Eve Babitz

The village seemed very old, eaten away at the edge like the moon which had commenced to wane, — H.P. Lovecraft

I dance/for the joy of surviving, at the edge of the road. — Stanley Kunitz