Quotes About Ledges

#1. And always, in my pocket, in my skin, in the back of my mind, the hollowness where he used to be. The empty circle where my finger used to fit into the ring. The crimson flakes and ruby dust strewn across the ledges of my ribs.

Leah Raeder

#2. Friendship includes talking others off their ledges, and letting them talk you off yours. - Jenni Davenport

Gary Chapman

#3. But I've married a deeply sensible person who is extremely good at talking me down from my various ledges, and who takes care of me in a billion ways.

Lauren Groff

#4. Golfers who play a lot of courses often encounter short ledges or retaining walls, and I always had fun hopping down from them. I could jump off something six feet high and land like a cat, no problem. Well, today I can't jump off anything higher than two feet without it just killing me.

Tom Watson

#5. He stopped, because he wasn't sure what Cryptography had established, and because he needed another moment to haul himself down from the ledges of her high cheekbones, to retreat from the caves of her eyes.

Samuel R. Delany

#6. I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood;
Its lips in the field above are dabbled with blood-read heath,
The red-ribb'd ledges drip with a silent horror of blood
And Echo there, whatever is ask'd her, answers "Death".

Agatha Christie

#7. The bums were better dressed, younger, but just as listless. They sat around on the window ledges, hunched forward, getting warm in the sun and drinking the free coffee that W.F.I. offered. There was no cream and sugar, but it was free.

Charles Bukowski

#8. The thing about hitting bottom is that, in the middle of it, sometimes you don't know if you're really hitting bottom or just bouncing off ledges on your way further down.

Frederick Weisel

#9. My mother always sits on the edges of things
chairs, ledges, tables
as if she suspects she will have to flee in an instant.

Veronica Roth

#10. I'm fine with being beat-up and pushed around, but I'm really scared of heights and scared of ledges.

John Cena

#11. If time could run backward, like a film in reverse, we would see this mess reassemble itself into lush green hills and moss-covered ledges of limestone. The streams would run back up the hills to the springs and the salt would stay glittering in underground rooms.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

#12. Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. Will you let me hold your hand as we outrun reason, brush past elephants, race up steps, tumble down hills, roll in the hay, leap over crumbling walkways, and dangle our legs over ledges?

Samantha Sotto

#14. Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect, save, help- but know when to give up. They're precarious ledges to walk. How do I do it?

Brandon Sanderson

#15. Get eight hours of sleep regularly. Keep your weight down, run a mile a day.

Stan Musial

#16. To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

Mark Twain

#17. You got to be careful to not get too comfortable with incremental improvement. I think sometimes you just got to jump off a ledge.

Merlin Mann

#18. I want to be the one cheering you on, not stopping you from making it onto the field.

Scarlett Cole

#19. Immigration is one of the leading contributors to population growth.

Paul Watson

#20. Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#21. I took a day to search for God, And found Him not. But as I trod By rocky ledge, through woods untamed, Just where one scarlet lily flamed, I saw His foot print in the sod.

Bliss Carman

#22. It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Jack Kuehler

#23. Humor is an amazing way to talk people down off a ledge.

Joe Elliott

#24. I know what my heart is like Since your love died: It is like a hollow ledge Holding a little pool Left there by the tide, A little tepid pool, Drying inward from the edge.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#25. The key to life is balance, especially if you are on a ledge.

Demetri Martin

#26. I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the way that they can surprise you. And obviously to surprise people and to have twists in the tale, you have to plan quite carefully.

Joe Abercrombie

#27. Half the time, my job is basically to talk people off the ledge. It's more psychological than just me picking up some sticks and counting, "1, 2, 3, 4."

Questlove

#28. Jesus didn't call us to merely make a decision for him. He doesn't need our vote of approval. He doesn't want deciders. He wants disciples - people who are devoted to becoming more and more like him in everything, everyday.

Jeff Vanderstelt

#29. They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

C.S. Lewis