#verge

At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#back #belonged #comparatively #conducted #craft

Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay. ↗

— Robert Blair

#decay #makes #maturity #passed #point

Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#changing #could #here #i #leaning

So many times I've wanted to crack up, standing there stiff while seven women are crawling round my toes fixing hems and the designer's having a freak-out because the denim cuffs are crooked. I'm on the verge of hysteria. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#crack #crawling #crooked #designer #fixing

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#breath #capture #converge #faculties #fleeting

I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump. ↗

— Willem Dafoe

#bridge #get #go #going #i

The divergence of songs in the new population away from those in the progenitor population would only be prevented if these processes were balanced by repeated immigration and subsequent breeding: song flow. ↗

— Peter R. Grant

#balanced #breeding #divergence #flow #immigration

I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father. I want to be judged on my own merits. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

#anyone #divergent #father #i #judged

When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation. ↗

— Felicity Kendal

#anticipation #i #i always #little #marked

The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#animal #compared #distortion #facts #harmless