Precipice Quotes

We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government. - Zachary Quinto

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side. - Logan Pearsall Smith

This is the crucial time in the second term. Either Bush is going to become another Jimmy Carter and be seen as a failed president or somehow he needs to turn things around. He is standing on the edge of a precipice. - Darrell West

This does not bode well -- ha, ha, ha! -- for Bush's trade agenda. What a tragedy. You don't take out a very effective player like Portman, who has good relations in Congress and on the international scene, when this whole agenda stands on the precipice, without knowing what that means. - Lori Wallach

There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold, or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night. - Ernest Bramah

The three of them brought me back from the precipice. It was scary. - Jim Corsi

The river seeking for the sea
Confronts the dam and precipice,
Yet knows it cannot fail or miss;
You will be what you will to be! - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The precipice of a full-scale national conflict. - Morgan Tsvangirai

The jury's out on whether this election can bring Bolivia back from the precipice of national collapse or whether it will generate even more political tension and perhaps a break-up of the country. - Mark Schneider