Quotes with razor-edge

Quotes 41 till 60 of 60.

  • Caleb Cushing The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Aaron Allston The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
    Aaron Allston
    American game designer and author (1960 - 2014)
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  • Willa Cather The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Joan Didion The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.
    Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 157
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Jacob Bronowski The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
    Jacob Bronowski
    British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Bill Simmons There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • William Hazlitt Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Alexander Pope To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Brad Dourif We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath.
    Brad Dourif
    American actor (1950 - )
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  • B. W. Powe We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.
    Towards A Canada of Light First Meditation, p. 35
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960s, a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils, a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats. The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises - it is a set of challenges.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Bonnie Tyler When I did the video for 'Holding Out For A Hero,' we filmed that on top of the Grand Canyon, and that was quite frightening. I was close to the edge, and there was a helicopter hovering about, creating a lot of wind, and I was nervous I was going to fall off.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Boris Becker When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Boris Becker When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Elie Wiesel When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge - one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Damon Runyon You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.
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  • Ben Carson You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray; I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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