Edges – Quotes

The most interesting parts

The most interesting parts of the natural world are the edges, places where ocean meets land, meadow meets forest, timberline touches the heights. Galen Rowell

I have to give

I have to give Mays one edge, durability. Mickey isn’t sound and Willie is. Otherwise, if I had a chance to trade for either player, I’d pick Mantle. Gabe Paul

Friends that I value

Friends that I value most are people who would essentially use physical violence against me at a time when I seem to be teetering on the edge. Ezra Miller

It is easy, retrospectively,

It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one’s youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one’s stature on the edge of the door. Evelyn Waugh

I believe in fierce love, pushing the edge, calling the robbers, the corporates, the elites, the pillagers and insanely wealthy to task, going whatever distance we need to go now to protect our earth and each other. Eve Ensler

I have to have

I have to have an adjustment before I go into the ring. I do believe in chiropractic. I found that going to a chiropractor three times a week helps my performance. The majority of boxers go to get that edge. Evander Holyfield

Happiness, for you we

Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you. Eugenio Montale

Death is by no

Death is by no means separate from life. . . . We all interact with death every day, tasting it as we might a wine, feeling its keen edge even in trifling losses and disappointments, holding it by the hand, as a dancer might a partner, in every separation. Eugene Kennedy

The word ‘christian’ means

The word ‘christian’ means different things to different people. To one person it means a stiff, upright, inflexible way of life, colorless and unbending. To another it means a risky, surprised-filled adventure, lived tiptoe at the edge of expectation…If we get our information from the biblical material, there is no doubt that the Christian life … Read more

You can have lots

You can have lots of feelings and have the same feelings over and over again. It isn’t the recognizable feelings that make so much difference. It is sensing the edge, the unclear, what you don’t recognize, but it is there, the bodily discomfort that the problem makes, which has meaning; it has its own peculiar … Read more