Top 18 Teetering At The Brink Quotes
#2. Before the day begins, you are not yet engaged in any physical activities. And it is only physically that you are constrained by the limits of time and place; mentally, there are no such boundaries.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
#3. Whatever Romney's failings, he certainly doesn't suggest that the United States is teetering on the brink of a moral cesspool.
John Podhoretz
#4. The Pacific is my home ocean; I knew it first, grew up on its shore, collected marine animals along the coast. I know its moods, its color, its nature.
John Steinbeck
#5. Most of the scientists I know think civilization is teetering on the brink of a global disaster. They just don't know when it's going to hit. I don't have the answer to that either. I'm scared as hell.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#6. Why be concerned with gossip? Because it is much easier, as well as far more enjoyable, to identify and label the mistakes of others than to recognize our own.
Daniel Kahneman
#7. We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.
Isaac Asimov
#8. An arguing couple spiraling into negativity and teetering on the brink of divorce is actually mathematically equivalent to the beginning of a nuclear war.
Hannah Fry
#9. Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.
Max Lerner
#10. I get really very upset when I'm voted out, and I feel very disappointed.
Anton Du Beke
#11. The last two elections were stolen. They were stolen and so we will not rest until we reclaim our democracy and this is what today is all about.
Barbara Lee
#12. Theirs is a civilization of deprivation; ours of finely balanced satisfaction ever teetering on the brink of excess.
Iain M. Banks
#13. Remedies, indeed, are our great analysers of disease.
Peter Latham
#14. No one in Brady had seemed even remotely aware that the world was teetering on the brink of a catastrophic depression. Perhaps the mountains kept the place isolated and secure. Or perhaps life there had been depressed for so long another crash wouldn't matter.
John Grisham
#15. Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own. (This is easier said than done.)
Jacqueline Briskin
#16. The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.
Arianna Huffington
#17. It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.
Wade Davis
#18. What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.
I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God. I can be brave. I can make myself feel again.
Tim O'Brien
