Quotes About Standing On A Ledge

#1. Standing on a ledge again. Everyone laughs at dancing monkey with the typewriter. Not for long, though.

Neil Simon

#2. I often thought grief was like madness - the lack of control, the overwhelming waves of emotion with unexpected triggers, breathlessness, night sweats, nightmares, and the feeling of utter aloneness, like that of standing on a ledge in a violent wind.

Erika Robuck

#3. It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.

Samuel Johnson

#4. The doors of opportunity don't stay open long enough for us to ignore them today and return tomorrow. They shut for reasons we never imagined." Ray White

Ray White

#5. I'm getting housemaid's knee kneeling here gulping beauty.

Amelia Earhart

#6. Jane Jacobs observed in The Death and Life of Great American Cities: The larger a city, the greater the variety of its manufacturing, and also the greater both the number and the proportion of its small manufacturers.

Steven Johnson

#7. I am never serious, and therefore I have to make jokes do duty both for jest and earnest.

Franz Kafka

#8. He was standing on the little ledge of reality he had left, but it seemed to me that he wasn't getting high, just getting level. He had an affinity with pain. If he couldn't cure it, he took it on.

Colum McCann

#9. It's no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill.

Gail Carriger

#10. The problem with revenge is that it never evens the score. It ties both the injured and the injurer to an escalator of pain. Both are stuck on the escalator as long as parity is demanded, and the escalator never stops.

Lewis B. Smedes

#11. The security and happiness of all minority groups in South Africa depend on the Afrikaner. Whether they are English- or German- or Portuguese- or Italian-speaking, or even Jewish-speaking, makes no difference.

P. W. Botha

#12. You are my Guardian Angel, Maddy, a voice said, but it was far away from her.

Scott Speer

#13. The spirit is the cause of all our thoughts and body-action, and everything, but it is untouched by good or evil, pleasure or pain, heat of cold, and all the dualism of nature, although it lends its light to everything.

Swami Vivekananda

#14. Even though I knew she wasn't going to jump, seeing her standing on the ledge made me realize that I want and need her in my life forever. She challenges me, pushes me, and pisses me off, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

Jessica Sorensen

#15. The worst is being alone and not having someone with whom I can share life, someone who sees the world from the same narrow ledge I'm standing on and who understands without always having to be explained to.

Nancy Bond

#16. I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.

Maya Angelou

#17. Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.

Kurt Vonnegut

#19. If we have a heart to learn and a willingness to follow the example of children, their divine attributes can hold a key to unlocking our own spiritual growth.

Jean A. Stevens

#20. I don't think writers -in general- ever achieve the fame of movie stars. For the simple reason that only a fraction of the population reads. But I guess there are exceptions.

Augusten Burroughs