Verge Quotes

I'm on the verge of suicide, so what's murder?

I love heights. I love speed. Im on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom.

The government cannot become a bailout organization for companies on the verge of bankruptcy.

Keeping a smile on your lips even when you're on the verge of tears. Feeling sorry for those who show their feelings.

What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction.

Her mouth is always on the verge of a smile. It makes her look like there's always something amazing she needs to tell me, even when it's just hello.

When a man is on the verge of passing out from pain, it seemed wrong to notice how beautiful he was.

Happily, at forty-six I still feel as experimental and on the verge of getting at the truth as ever.

Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the mid-'60s, I had great songwriters; we wrote some great stuff.

When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.

The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage.

Forests are the world's air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.

You’re on the verge of getting your soul and your life back and he’s still what determines your happiness ? You don’t need a relationship to be happy, Georgina.

Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school.

Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.

Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

In Cuba we are building a socialist society and we could say we are on the verge of a communist society which is hard to achieve, very hard to achieve, but is a longing worth fighting for.

This is our moment, here at the cross-roads of time. Time is relentless and as the past dissappears, we're on the verge of all things new.

I was on the verge of quitting… The Acting Center actually saved me as an actor.

[Even if the U.S. doesn't attack] Saddam Hussein is not going to survive. His regime is on the verge of implosion.

Check out the produce bin in your fridge or your cabinet before you buy more. When you see something on the verge of going bad, freeze it, turn it into a sauce, make jam.

The chamber where the good man meets his fate Is privileg'd beyond the common walk Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.

There are persons who can speak no more, whose very names have vanished. Yet a name excised from the verge where it once lived still casts its sound on all who sleep there and enters their throats.

Everyone is on the verge of insanity ... insanity meaning on the verge of the unknown.

Tell me that you refuse to allow me to be so stupid. Tell me that you will not tolerate this relationship being over just when it was on the verge of really taking off.

Our wishes never seem so little desirable as when on the verge of accomplishment; we draw back instinctively, they look so different from what we expected.

Left to its own devices, the State Department machinery tends toward inertia rather than creativity; it is always on the verge of turning itself into an enormous cable machine.

It's a lot easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.

Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet Caporal pasted on his mug.

Eternity! How know we but we stand On the precipitous and crumbling verge Of Time e'en now, Eternity below?

Wherever there is one job on the verge of being lost, I will fight to save it. Wherever there is one company looking to grow in West Virginia, I will fight to make that growth a reality.

Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And view the ocean leaning on the sky: From thence our rolling Neighbours we shall know, And on the Lunar world securely pry.

I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence.

Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.

In our public life, California is on the verge of being a failed state, and no state has failed in the history of this country.

America's all about the various voices, right? When we all speak with a common voice we verge on fascism, which is militaristic, and fundamentally anti-American.

Our people still need support. Support us through writing your government officials. We are still on the verge of extinction, with continued injustices brought against us.

The truth, it seems, is not just what you find when you open a door: it is itself a door, which the poet is always on the verge of going through.

When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.