#brink

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

#brink #class #collapse #company #disaster

If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#bored #brink #drive #get #i

This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

#book #brink #composed #conceived #constructed

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#brink #forgetting #getting old #grave #keeps

Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#brink #collapse #country #credit #economic

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. ↗

— John Foster Dulles

#art #away #brink #get #getting

THE EDGE, there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#crazy #crisis #insanity #crazy

The house seemed so empty without him. And I thought about the life we'd been building together for all that time. I realized I was on the brink of losing it all. It just scared me into reality. ↗

— Hunter Tylo

#been #brink #building #empty #him

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. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#brink #errors #falling #great #great art

Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values. ↗

— Samuel Dash

#american values #assaults #brink #constitution #declaration