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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

The condition of photographing is maybe the condition of being on the brink of conversion to anything. — Diane Arbus

I love to live on the brink of eternity. — David Brainerd

When men want to kiss you they act like they are just on the brink of doing something that's going to change the whole wide world. — Barbara Kingsolver

No matter how far you go into the deep, you are always on the brink of another abyss. — Hamid Ismailov

The wary fiend stood on the brink of hell, pondering his voyage — John Milton

Often, on the brink of finding the recipe for immortality, I get distracted by the frightful presence of death. — Hector Abad Faciolince

A democracy that's constantly threatened by corruption is a democracy that's on the brink to fail. — Henry Johnson Jr

Everyone here felt like they were on the brink of something, when in fact they were only on the brink of the end. — Lauren Kate

Whatever Romney's failings, he certainly doesn't suggest that the United States is teetering on the brink of a moral cesspool. — John Podhoretz

Hurtling back to town, in a red Porsche driven by a beautiful woman, with the song playing, I had the sense of standing on the brink of another world. — Graeme Simsion

We are alive on the very brink of eternity. — Peter Carey

On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite. — Jean Rostand

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

Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave. — Kate Bosworth

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

tittering on the brink of a war. — Kelly St. Clare

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

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success. — Joyce Meyer

Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones. — Max Lerner

We are living on the brink of the apocalypse, but the world is asleep. — Joel C. Rosenberg

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

No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse. — Joel Salatin

Together we all live every moment
On the very brink;
The razor's edge
Of ecstasy or disaster. — Scott Hastie

It's only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve. — John Cleese

We're on the brink of an Adventure. Don't spoil it by asking questions! — P.L. Travers

We both stood there, as if on the brink of a cliff, and I didn't know if I moved if I would fall to hell or soar to heaven. — Julianne Donaldson

This is crazy," I told Patch in an undertone.
"I'm crazy." He was on the brink of smiling again. "About you. — Becca Fitzpatrick

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

I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater. — Agnes Smedley

What's more serious than a kiss on the brink of war? — Kristin Hannah

Reader one moment stop and think,
That I am in eternity and you are on the brink. — Tombstone Epitaph In Perth Scotland

When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together. — Nile Rodgers

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. — Frank Herbert

We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood. — Isaac Asimov

Greatness is what we on the brink of. — Nicki Minaj

According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am. — Vince Cable

I laughed uneasily. "Jeez, you guys make it sound like I was on the brink of death or something. I just fainted." (Sabina) — Jaye Wells

As a human being, I was born on the brink of personal destruction, and I have spent my life dancing along the edge of that cliff. — Brian Herbert

I was born on a bench in the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris, in the early spring of 1960. — Andre Brink

Theirs is a civilization of deprivation; ours of finely balanced satisfaction ever teetering on the brink of excess. — Iain M. Banks

Just five minutes, God, I chant like some hostage negotiator on the brink of a resolution. Five minutes alone. Please, please. Please. — Shannon Celebi

It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction. — Wade Davis

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

Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy. — Louis Farrakhan

With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries. — Mary Shelley

My heart is on a budget.
It keeps me on the brink. — Anne Sexton

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past. — John Wyndham

Satan can make men dance upon the brink of hell as though they were on the verge of heaven. — Charles Spurgeon

We're on the cusp, on the brink, of enormous change in this country. — Jennifer Granholm

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

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

Be my friends against the day I shall be on the brink of hell, as I was once before — Alain-Fournier

Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary. — Oscar Wilde

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