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Walk at the edge of the precipices! It is the best way to learn walking carefully! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are at the edge of a precipice, your every step is vital! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Evil is simply
a grammatical error:
a failure to leap
the precipice
between "he"
and "I. — Linda Pastan

It angered him that his sexuality was an issue at all. As far as he was concerned, who he decided to sleep with was his business alone. — Christina Westover

The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction — John Bunyan

The edge of a precipice is a very merciless school; over there you either learn to be serious or you die foolishly! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces. — Seneca The Younger

We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened. — Walter Cronkite

His was an impenetrable darkness. I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bottom of a precipice where the sun never shines. — Joseph Conrad

If we don't want temptation to follow us, we shouldn't act as if we are interested. No one ever fell over a precipice who never went near one. — Richard L. Evans

He who would not fall off the precipice must not venture too near the edge. — Frances J Roberts

When we consider the possibility that God will not be good to us, we stand on the precipice of despair and peer into the darkness below. — G.K. Chesterton

Life is a picnic on a precipice. — W. H. Auden

We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government. — Zachary Quinto

All my life I've been fascinated by the precipice in all of us. When you come to it, you either choose to fall or you don't
Alvin Ailey — Kathy Petrakis

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road — Henry Ward Beecher

We are on the precipice of climate system tipping points beyond which there is no redemption. — James Hansen

Be passionate about what you write, believe in your ability to convey timeless ideas, and let no one tell you what what you're capable of. — Christina Westover

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

About writing:The trick is to make sure you love what you've produced
to Believe..in order to convince. — Christina Westover

When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy. — T. S. Eliot

In good times, we all want to drop anchor, to stop in time! But man is condemned to move till the far end of the precipice! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility. — J. F. Powers

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side. — Logan Pearsall Smith

There are some moments in man's life that looking back might cause him fall into the precipice! At those moments, man must just look forward! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge. — Edgar Allan Poe

To love is to live on the precipice. — Anne Desclos

Always know you could be on the precipice of something great. — Donald Trump

Life is the art of finding or building a bridge with a great determination every time you come across a precipice! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

He looked like a sleepwalker waking up on the verge of a precipice. — Ross Macdonald

Being our best is asking how can we take ourselves to the precipice of our own limits in any and every situation? — Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

There it was again, the prickling sense of standing on a precipice. — Lauren Myracle

We are all rushing upon a precipice, but some of us have wings — Kat Brewer

When your safety is in question follow your intuition. It will help you balance along the precipice between vulnerability and adventure. — Gina Greenlee

The edge of a precipice ... That is the place where man sits throughout his life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice. — Plautus

Even when we're standing at the scariest precipice ever, our soul still cries out for joy. — Sue Fitzmaurice

Damen felt it then, the first dizzy edge of new emotion, and he let go his hold of Laurent like a man fearing a precipice; and yet was helpless. — C.S. Pacat

Unless you jump on it, precipice can teach you many things! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

As though it had come to the top of the hill and gone over a precipice, — Roald Dahl

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

Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice. — Robinson Jeffers

While reaching up for manhood they tumble over a moral and ethical precipice and many can never scale their way back up. — Geoffrey Canada

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it. — Blaise Pascal

A scary bridge is better than a precipice without bridge! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Since we can't trust the precipice, we shall trust the bridge however worn out it is and we shall cross to the other side! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front. — Richard Dawkins

That's like leaping off a precipice and trying to knit yourself a parachute on the way down. — Kelli Jae Baeli

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

Precipices are the routine routes of the unroutine men. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I'll tell you a story. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I'd been on the precipice of being brave, and nothing can make a person more foolish and vulnerable than bravery. — Penny Reid

Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The more you love,the more love you have to give.It's the only feeling we have which is infinite ... — Christina Westover

The Devil sends the precipices; God sends the bridges! When you come across a precipice, look for the bridge; it is somewhere there! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A precipice cannot challenge the bird! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We run carelessly over the precipice after having put something in front of us to prevent us seeing it. — Blaise Pascal

I don't know if we're on the edge of the precipice, but we're in a very, very, very difficult situation. — Luis De Guindos

Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice. — Ryan Phillippe

I feel like I'm on the precipice - just seeing a better version of me coming out. — Sara Bareilles

Never has our nation , or our world, stood on the precipice of adversity in such dire need of men answering the cry to rule well. — Tony Evans

The truly pious must negotiate a difficult course between the precipice of godlessness and the marsh of superstition. — Plutarch

Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated. — Sathya Sai Baba

Love is a beautiful flower, but we must be brave enough to pick her up from the edge of a precipice. — Stendhal

So much had changed, and so abruptly. It made me feel a little dizzy, like I was standing on an edge, a precipice somewhere much too high. — Stephenie Meyer

I'm on the edge of a precipice. — Mabe

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

Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends. — Edward Young