Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are possibly on the brink of war, so it would have been a great surprise if consumer confidence hadn't fallen.

When your horse in on the brink of a precipice, it is too late to pull the reins

We're standing on the brink once again. You know, it's not easy, but it's better than the alternative.

We hope to prevent the devastating effects of this disease by treating the young early. While peregrines have made a comeback from the brink of extinction nationwide, there is still a need to protect their nest sites and encourage population growth in Georgia.

Nile Rodgers

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

Bre Pettis

We're on the brink of the next industrial revolution. Instead of buying things, you can make them on a printer. When you have a 3D printer, you can iterate more - what used to take months, now takes hours.

Alexander Pushkin

Upon the brink of the wild streamHe stood, and dreamt a mighty dream.

Alexander Pushkin

Upon the brink of the wild stream He stood, and dreamt a mighty dream.

Richard Mourdock

Bipartisanship has taken us to the brink of bankruptcy. We don't need bipartisanship, we need application of principle... Where was the call for bipartisanship during the Obamacare debate? Not a single Republican voted for it. It wasn't about bipartisanship, it was about having the votes to dictate your will.

Only now, on the brink of financial gamble for the power output, do we suddenly need dry cask storage.

Mary Roach

I make lists to keep my anxiety level down. If I write down 15 things to be done, I lose that vague, nagging sense that there are an overwhelming number of things to be done, all of which are on the brink of being forgotten.

France and other EU members have taken the EU to the brink of collapsing the round,

I don't know what more motivation there is than to be on the brink of elimination and playing before fans that have been great for you all year. Ultimately, we're playing for each other in this room. But without a doubt, there isn't a guy in here that doesn't want to go out and play well and win in front of our fans. I mean, they've been unbelievable for us all year long.

I am leaving Javelin in a good place -- well capitalized with a strong management team and on the brink of commercialization of its first product. Over the past five years, I have taken great pride and enjoyed helping to build Javelin and intend to return to the venture capital community to help entrepreneurs create earlier-stage companies.

Joel Salatin

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

He just needs to realize that he's right on that brink of really ticking off somebody he doesn't want to tick off. I think he'll figure it out.

Kate Bosworth

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

Andrew Zimbalist

I think at the end of the day, the two sides are very reluctant to push this to the brink or over the brink. It just makes no sense. But until you get to the brink, there is going to be jockeying and posturing.

John Dulles

We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face.

We always seem to get teams on the brink of desperation. They haven't won yet, it's a home game for them, and it's on turf, so we have a whole new set of challenges.

I think these guys have done great things for the school and the community and I think everyone should come out and support them. We're on the brink of having a real special season. We're just two games away from the final four.

Some of them are on the brink of unable to cope any longer.

CeeLo Green

To lose my mother just as I'm right on the brink of crossing that threshold over into a career, it was pretty compelling. My entire career is my mother's work, for me.

Michael Vaughan

I was obsessing. All leaders go through that. It was a very intense summer. We were on the brink of doing something special. It was like being a general on the eve of battle.

Lord Byron

Tis very puzzling on the brink Of what is called Eternity to stare, And know no more of what is here, than there

Seamus Mallon

Those who did it, those who organized it and those who give it any support or credence should know what they are doing is driving the entire community to the brink of more and more and more suffering.

And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river.

Coach Joyce started to run practices and he knew what he was doing. He got us to be real intense. I think we still have to peak and I think we can make a big run in the playoffs. We are on the brink of doing that.

Ken Salazar

Rural Americans and ranchers are on the brink of existence, ... The rising fuel costs will put family farmers and ranchers out of business if they continue to go up, and this is just one of the horrible consequences of rising oil prices.

This is an exciting year ... witnessing a population on the brink of extinction exhibit signs that it might actually make it, that it might have a fighting chance.

These results are generally depressing and send some ominous signals. They suggest that the hoped for recovery has stalled and that manufacturing is on the brink of slipping back into decline, pushed by the strength of sterling.

Barbara Stocking

The British public's generosity has helped pull whole regions back from the brink in the past, we now need their help to do that again.

A species on the brink of extinction isn't going to reverse after only 30 years.