Precipices Quotes

#1. The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.

Octavio Paz

#2. If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged.

Virginia Woolf

#3. It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the waters were profoundly deep; but that over all, rocks, wood, and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its inmost depths.

Thomas Cole

#4. Precipices are the routine routes of the unroutine men.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. Man always travels along precipices ... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.

Pope John Paul II

#6. Don't be afraid of the dark roads or the roads that look unsafe, the roads that look going to nowhere, the roads that look leading to the precipices! Have some courage, then the road will look different, it will look better, it will look brighter and much less dangerous!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. If there is a strong will, there will always be a path even in the middle of precipices!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country
its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps.

Sun Tzu

#9. Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#10. Ay, on the shores of darkness there is a light, and precipices show untrodden green; there is a budding morrow in midnight; there is triple sight in blindness keen.

John Keats

#11. Walk at the edge of the precipices! It is the best way to learn walking carefully!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. My love for Bardia (not Bardia himself) had become to me a sickening thing. I had been dragged up and out onto such heights and precipices of truth, that I came into an air where it could not live. It stank; a gnawing greed for one to whom I could give nothing, of whom I craved all.

C.S. Lewis

#13. It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question with a mind fresh and unshackled by former theories, though strengthened by exercise and information.

William Hazlitt

#14. Far too often, it is at the moment where we finally stand on the very precipice of some great thing that we turn and abandon it, for it is at these seminal moments that fear wins and greatness dies. The beauty of Christmas is that God steps over precipices.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#15. Every bridge is a holy saint; it helps everyone who comes to him and protects them from the precipices!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. 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

#17. Freeze, freeze in the winter, if you really want to appreciate the summer! Walk, walk at the edge of the precipices, if you rightly want to learn the meaning of the safety! Switch the lights off, if you want to see the amazing beauty of the light!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. We can no more analyse such peace in the soul than we can conceive in our heads the whole enormous and dizzy equilibrium by which, out of suns roaring like infernos and heavens toppling like precipices, He has hanged the world upon nothing.

G.K. Chesterton

#19. Poor humanity! I often feel that the tableland of sanity upon which most of us dwell, is small in area, with unfenced precipices on every side, over any one of which we may fall.

Francis Galton

#20. Towards evening, they wound down precipices, black with forest of cypress, pine and cedar, into a glen so savage and secluded, that, if Solicitude ever had local habitation, this might have been "her place of dearest residence

Ann Radcliffe

#21. Birds don't need bridges to cross precipices and honourable men with honesty wings to cross precipices of slander.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#22. Think. I dragged myself along among the precipices - and revelled in the peace and luxury of death.

Henrik Ibsen

#23. Then it becomes necessary to get the field organisation to accept the help provided. This is normally the role of the Change Manager; to implement the change that no-one asked for or wants.

Douglas McGregor

#24. But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.

Bram Stoker

#25. When you love someone, you don't have a choice. Love takes your choices away.
- Clary Fray

Cassandra Clare

#26. The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male.

Bill Bixby

#27. I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences.

Lee Ann Womack

#28. Knowledge is the most beautiful manifestation of the human mind.

Eraldo Banovac

#29. Even so We find the sea of sorrow. Black as night The sullen surface meets our frightened gaze, As down we sink to darkness and despair ...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#30. I lay this down as a fundamental proposition, which I do not think will be denied, that whoever controls the taxation and trade policy of a country controls its destiny and the entire character of its civilization.

George William Russell

#31. Don't start by talking about your products and services instead think about the people you are trying to reach

David Meerman Scott

#32. I've been trained in dancing and I used to be quite good, though I am a bit rusty right now. But I could probably brush up in a couple of months.

Brittany Murphy

#33. For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.

Mary Garden

#34. Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.

Thomas Jefferson