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Life is a picnic on a precipice.
To love is to live on the precipice.
He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.
Precipices are the routine routes of the unroutine men.
The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction
Always know you could be on the precipice of something great.
Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.
He who would not fall off the precipice must not venture too near the edge.
We are on the precipice of being so ignorant that our democracy is threatened.
The edge of a precipice... That is the place where man sits throughout his life!
I feel like I'm on the precipice - just seeing a better version of me coming out.
We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.
'Rent' was one of the main defining moments, and it was like the precipice of my transition.
He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.
It’s only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve.
We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.
I don't know if we're on the edge of the precipice, but we're in a very, very, very difficult situation.
The scary thing is that I sometimes think, 'Oh, I've won a Bafta. This could be the top of the precipice.'
Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.
I like playing characters who are out there on the edge, where they can explode at any moment or fall off the precipice.
If we don't want temptation to follow us, we shouldn't act as if we are interested. No one ever fell over a precipice who never went near one.
My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.
In a media instant, Sarah Palin went from an unknown moose hunter to a mass phenomenon on the precipice of becoming the vice president of the United States.
We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.
We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.
On average, the higher the novelty score a film had, the better it did at the box office. But only up to a point. Push past that novelty threshold, and there's a precipice; the revenue earned by a film fell off a cliff.
At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.
Most of the time, women believe that what lies ahead is a precipice. Whereas, if you continue to drive and stay on the path, the road will open up in front of you, and you will reach your destination. You don't need to turn around and abandon the journey.
No ideas are harmed in the making of my books, by the way. All I do with my best ideas is run with them, fast as I can, taking notes and occasionally suggesting a left hand turn rather than the right hand one which might have taken us both over a precipice.
You're immortal, aren't you, until you get a little peek over the precipice. The thought of death...You're not supposed to start pondering it until you're old. And there's nothing like being told you've got a life-threatening disease to concentrate your mind on that.
The rarity is the sudden epiphany or single turning point showing you with dramatic clarity that your marriage is over, although that does happen. Most relationships hover on a precipice for years before one party or the other finally decides it is time to jump, and coming to the decision isn't easy.
We are still fearful, superstitious and all-too-human creatures. At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.
We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum.
The U.S. has a long history of walking up to the precipice of rigor and then walking away. As voters, let's support leaders who were courageous enough to make the hard decisions necessary to move our system forward. And as parents, let's put our faith in our educators, our children and tests that hold them to their highest potential.