Quotes and Sayings About Cliffs
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But don’t let them talk you into anything you don’t feel comfortable with.†“They’re my friends.†“So what?†He shrugged. “If your friends walked off a cliff, would you do it too?†“Why would they walk off a cliff?†I asked in alarm. “Is someone having problems at home?
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair... or go into business. You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
-- Annie Dillard -
Inching one's way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can't take any more, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that
-- Banana Yoshimoto -
In 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They'll just ask, "So the Arctic melted, and then what did you do?"
-- Bill McKibben -
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The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.
-- Bill Walton -
You couldn't drop knowledge if you threw an Encyclopedia off a cliff.
-- Celph Titled -
When I stand on the edge of a cliff or right at the edge of a building or something, it's one of the few things that gives me kind of a deep, overwhelming, irrational fear where it affects my physiology.
-- Chris Hadfield -
We are about to change history, said Saphira. We’re throwing ourselves off a cliff without knowing how deep the water below is. Ah, but what a glorious flight! (Eragon to Saphira)
-- Christopher Paolini -
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Let's push the Pentagon off the fiscal cliff.
-- Cindy Sheehan -
But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a cliff's edge, like Sappho into the sea.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
Life is a walk to the edge of a cliff. Every day we get a step nearer and what lies over the brink, no one can tell.
-- Deepak Chopra -
When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.
-- Denis Hayes -
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Moss is inconceivably strong. Moss eats stone; scarcely anything, in return, eats moss. Moss dines upon boulders, slowly but devastatingly, in a meal that lasts for centuries. Given enough time, a colony of moss can turn a cliff into gravel, and turn that gravel into topsoil.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them
-- Frank Herbert -
There is an educational cliff we are walking over right this very second.
-- Geoffrey Canada -
Tony Blair will be remembered for nothing other than that he followed George W. Bush over a cliff; took the rest of us with them, and we haven't yet reached the bottom, I'm afraid.
-- George Galloway -
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Hills tell old stories. Cliffs are poets with harps
-- George MacKay -
She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.
-- George Orwell -
Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside.
-- Harold Bloom -
And the worst part is before it gets any better we're heading for a cliff. And in the free fall I will realize I'm better off when I hit the bottom
-- Hayley Williams -
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When you push a car off a cliff and blow it up, be sure to roll the windows down to avoid shrapnel. Also, strip the license plate so you're not billed for the cleanup.
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
The adrenaline feeling of jumping out of cliffs and bikes and all of that is very specific to the film. In 'Pac Rim' I'm not doing that so much. There isn't that touch stonework for me in it, but there is a lot of action.
-- Idris Elba -
I had killed our careful relationship by driving my tongue through its heart and pushing it off a cliff.
-- Jeff Lindsay -
California is going to take themselves off the cliff culturally and economically, fiscally. They are going to be at the trough in Washington wanting a bailout.
-- Jim DeMint -
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I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.
-- Jonathan Ames -
You can't drive to the coastline. You can only drive so close to the white chalky cliff and then you have to get out and dive.
-- Joyelle McSweeney -
You can't jump off a cliff when you have already fallen off a bigger one.
-- Kami Garcia -
Watch out for cliffs on the left. Â Fatal spot again.
-- Karl Meltzer -
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The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive.
-- Lee Child -
Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
-- Marcus Aurelius