Teetering On The Precipice Quotes

#1. Institutions have processes favoring efficiency over loss, and process over people.

Bryant McGill

#2. What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being?

Joseph Addison

#3. Having a child isn't a deal you strike with life. As I said: a child is a gift. And what remains after a child is gone is the memory of the years it was allowed to live. Not its death

Carsten Jensen

#4. Live now for the promise of the Infinite

Mos Def

#5. I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an inequality.

William Shenstone

#6. Each memory rips through me, and although I stow myself against the emotions, I can't prevent the pain that accompanies each image. Pain for a love never acknowledged, pain for a friendship now gone. Pain for a loss I can't possibly endure.

Christine Fonseca

#7. Can I see a falling tear,
And not feel my sorrow's share?

William Blake

#8. Success brings with it pressure to conform. I always thought that success would lead to freedom, but the opposite is true: more people get involved, and committees make decisions, and it becomes a fight to stay free.

Nick Park

#9. Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.

George Papandreou

#10. My emotional hangover was thick and thorny and I felt antsy, wanting to crawl out of my own skin. I had hoped I would sleep off those weird, crazy feelings and wake up "normal," but my melancholy was everywhere and I couldn't pretend otherwise.

Sara Bareilles

#11. We were far more civilized in our divorce than we had ever been in marriage. It seemed we'd finally found something we could do together amicably.

Robyn Carr