Brink Quotations

Bipartisanship has taken us to the brink of bankruptcy. We don't need bipartisanship, we need application of principle... Where was the call for bipartisanship during the Obamacare debate? Not a single Republican voted for it. It wasn't about bipartisanship, it was about having the votes to dictate your will.

Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.

If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. It's the people who are always on the brink of crisis who don't hit bottom who are in trouble.

We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face.

We're on the brink of the next industrial revolution. Instead of buying things, you can make them on a printer. When you have a 3D printer, you can iterate more - what used to take months, now takes hours.

When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.

On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department's top leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance orders that they believed to be illegal.

We are possibly on the brink of war, so it would have been a great surprise if consumer confidence hadn't fallen.

We're standing on the brink once again. You know, it's not easy, but it's better than the alternative.

When your horse in on the brink of a precipice, it is too late to pull the reins

We hope to prevent the devastating effects of this disease by treating the young early. While peregrines have made a comeback from the brink of extinction nationwide, there is still a need to protect their nest sites and encourage population growth in Georgia.

Maybe your anxiety and nerves are different. Every year it seems we're on the brink and not knowing how many games we had to win or in '01 knowing we needed to win all of them to get in. It's a different feeling this year. There's the pressure that we think we're a pretty good basketball team and winning one of the two Big Ten championships is out there.

meets the U.N. inspection demands, okay. A diplomatic settlement is always preferable to a military air strike, even though Saddam Hussein has carried us to the brink of war, inflicted a lot of psychological damage and a lot of money costs. If the fine print measures up, we'll take a close look at it.

Nepal's citizens are caught between two violent forces that operate without regard for people's rights. Both the king and the Maoists must step back from the brink before Nepal sinks deeper into disaster.

Obviously we had wished to be able to present the proposals in the context of full agreement. (But) we are on the brink of an accommodation that would have been regarded as impossible not that long ago.

Negotiations are teetering on the brink of failure because governments are not reaching agreement on key poverty reduction measures, arms controls and their 'responsibility to protect' civilians,

Only now, on the brink of financial gamble for the power output, do we suddenly need dry cask storage.

I don't know what more motivation there is than to be on the brink of elimination and playing before fans that have been great for you all year. Ultimately, we're playing for each other in this room. But without a doubt, there isn't a guy in here that doesn't want to go out and play well and win in front of our fans. I mean, they've been unbelievable for us all year long.

I am leaving Javelin in a good place -- well capitalized with a strong management team and on the brink of commercialization of its first product. Over the past five years, I have taken great pride and enjoyed helping to build Javelin and intend to return to the venture capital community to help entrepreneurs create earlier-stage companies.

I make lists to keep my anxiety level down. If I write down 15 things to be done, I lose that vague, nagging sense that there are an overwhelming number of things to be done, all of which are on the brink of being forgotten.

I find bringing the country to the brink of war unilaterally five weeks before an election questionable - and very, very frightening.

I can't say enough about what Amy has done for the team. She has brought a lot of new defensive concepts to the team. Last year was tough because we got away from our team defense concept. We're on the brink of getting back to where we were two years ago, in terms of playing as a defensive unit.

France and other EU members have taken the EU to the brink of collapsing the round,

I enjoy worldbuilding very much. I generally start with an approximation. With 'Flesh and Spirit' and 'Breath and Bone,' because I was thinking of a world on the brink of a dark age, I began with the sense of Roman Britain. But I purposely set the geography to match something other than Britain - which has been overdone.

If the consumer gives up here -- if these layoffs lead to a break in confidence and more cutbacks in spending later, we will be on the brink of or perhaps into a recession.

We're on the brink of being a very good basketball team, but a very good basketball team wins road games, and they just don't win at home.

He just needs to realize that he's right on that brink of really ticking off somebody he doesn't want to tick off. I think he'll figure it out.

Green sturgeon are on the brink of extinction, and we have a moral obligation to ensure that this ancient creature survives for future generations to enjoy.

It came from nowhere, blazed up like a brush fire, pulled us together at the bottom of the Depression, held us together through a war, galloped up to the brink of television and fell over dead.

I think at the end of the day, the two sides are very reluctant to push this to the brink or over the brink. It just makes no sense. But until you get to the brink, there is going to be jockeying and posturing.

I think these guys have done great things for the school and the community and I think everyone should come out and support them. We're on the brink of having a real special season. We're just two games away from the final four.

Our state's honey industry has suffered on several fronts in recent years, ... In addition to the destruction of honeybee colonies caused by mites and hurricanes, the flood of cheap imported honey has pushed our state's honey producers and packers to the brink of economic disaster.

Some of them are on the brink of unable to cope any longer.

Some people believe we are on the brink of being able to extend human lifespan significantly, because we've got most of the technologies we need to do it. People are going to do things they didn't get round to in their working lives. Current institutions are really not equipped at the moment to deal with such long lives.

That was the last year we Democrats controlled every statewide officegovernor, attorney general, comptroller, two U.S. senators, ... We are on the brink of doing it again. 06 is going to be our year. If Democrat values were a stock, now is the time to buy.

I was obsessing. All leaders go through that. It was a very intense summer. We were on the brink of doing something special. It was like being a general on the eve of battle.

To lose my mother just as I'm right on the brink of crossing that threshold over into a career, it was pretty compelling. My entire career is my mother's work, for me.

We need to find out more about how stripers live. Stripers came close to the brink of extinction 25 years ago. Other species are still in trouble. Rutgers is leading the effort along the Jersey Shore to study our fisheries. I hope Net Free steers clear of nets and won't end up on a dinner table. We have something to learn form Net Free and the other tagged fish.

Tis very puzzling on the brink Of what is called Eternity to stare, And know no more of what is here, than there

Two years ago we gave up on Xerox. It was on the brink of bankruptcy or being taken over and, believe it or not, now it's on the path to profitability .

Those who did it, those who organized it and those who give it any support or credence should know what they are doing is driving the entire community to the brink of more and more and more suffering.

We are right on the brink of this season of becoming a serious threat to win the national championship, and I look for us to only improve in the future.

we are on the brink of military action.

We are on the brink ... and anyone who thinks the political situation is manageable at this rate of economic deterioration is going to be shocked.

The peace process doesn't seem to be in such good shape anyway. It's teetering on the brink of collapse, even before today's decision. This will bring it one step closer to final collapse.

Upon the brink of the wild streamHe stood, and dreamt a mighty dream.

Upon the brink of the wild stream He stood, and dreamt a mighty dream.

We're trying to pull aspen back literally from the brink of extinction.

We always seem to get teams on the brink of desperation. They haven't won yet, it's a home game for them, and it's on turf, so we have a whole new set of challenges.

We must be acutely aware that all that has been built up by the thousands of relief workers and hundreds of millions of dollars in donor contributions could be destroyed, and we could be on the brink of losing this huge humanitarian operation.

Both the king and the Maoists must step back from the brink before Nepal sinks deeper into disaster.

We scored on the very first play of the 2005 season. We called a misdirection play that Seth Brink took for a 35-yard touchdown run. It was a good way to start the year.

Villages are on the brink of widespread starvation, ... There is no maize, wild foods are exhausted, and there's very little food aid on the way for the next six months unless the international community steps in now with cash to stave off a humanitarian catastrophe.

We are going to have to dig a little deeper. Our road trip to Arizona last weekend, we've competed well down there. Now it's taking it to the next level. I look at our team and we are struggling to find a consistent group of go-to players. We are on the brink of finding those players. This weekend is very import for us to get back into the race.

These results are generally depressing and send some ominous signals. They suggest that the hoped for recovery has stalled and that manufacturing is on the brink of slipping back into decline, pushed by the strength of sterling.

The story is set in a futuristic Los Angeles as it teeters on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster.

Rural Americans and ranchers are on the brink of existence, ... The rising fuel costs will put family farmers and ranchers out of business if they continue to go up, and this is just one of the horrible consequences of rising oil prices.

Offensively, at quarterback, we've got Alex Brink and we're happy to have him back. Every position is always open, but Alex Brink is our guy.

Advertising is far from impotent or harmless; it is not a mere mirror image. Its power is real, and on the brink of a great increase. Not the power to brainwash overnight, but the power to create subtle and real change. The power to prevail.

Coach Joyce started to run practices and he knew what he was doing. He got us to be real intense. I think we still have to peak and I think we can make a big run in the playoffs. We are on the brink of doing that.

The Bush administration continues to do everything it can to get around the Endangered Species Act. They continue to turn their back on solid science and ignore the advice of local biologists, all the while pushing many plants and animals to the brink of extinction.

The British public's generosity has helped pull whole regions back from the brink in the past, we now need their help to do that again.

A species on the brink of extinction isn't going to reverse after only 30 years.

This is an exciting year ... witnessing a population on the brink of extinction exhibit signs that it might actually make it, that it might have a fighting chance.

At least three of our major members are on the brink in respect to their financial situations.

As we continue to rebuild the herds out there and to bring the species back from a point where it was on the brink of extinction 120 years ago, it really requires that it end up on the dinner plate, for the ranchers to have the incentive to bring the animals back.

As wacky and as wild as it has been to this point, we may be on the brink of having the first set of No. 1 seeds all make it.

It was sort of happening to me personally at that time as well, we were both 16. I was on the brink of that 'coming-of-age' time in my life.

It's a credit to New Orleans for hanging in there. They really pushed us to the brink today.

It's a healthy increase. It shows the retail sector is not on the brink of falling off a cliff. I still firmly believe the next move in interest rates is more likely to be up than down.

It's not like a real X-Games sport yet; it's kind of on the brink of becoming one, I think. And I don't want to talk about it, because I want to come out with the game and show people what it's all about.

The available scientific evidence proves that wild Atlantic salmon in the United States are on the brink of extinction. The Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service disregarded the scientific evidence and violated their statutory mandate under the ESA when they accepted Maine's voluntary plan instead of federal listing.

Taking away these protections will put the last remnants of wild places grizzlies need to fully recover and raise their young at risk from irresponsible oil drilling, unsustainable logging and sprawling development - all of which helped drive the grizzly to the brink of extinction in the first place.

It was obviously teetering on the brink of collapse during the time that I was there.

They continue to say the city is teetering on the brink of financial disaster. Quite frankly it?s inappropriate, because we are not.

The world is teetering on the brink of conflicts while the Administration's policies are vague, wavering and unclear. Major financial conflicts of interest involving the President, the Attorney General, the Vice President and others in the Administration have been and continue to be exposed.

After watching Taro reach the brink of bankruptcy, seeing their shares delisted from trading, hearing endless false promises about receiving audited financial statements, and witnessing an unchecked drain of company resources, the shareholders have clearly had enough.

I'm not quite sure what I'm going to say. We've got so many things going on. Given where we are, on the brink of going to TV (negotiations), I don't want to mislead anyone. But I want to give folks a broad sense of what we're looking at.

I never like to be too optimistic about contracts because you're really not close until you sign them. Sometimes you can get to the brink and never get it done. But we're pretty positive about our thoughts about him.

I never saw Jim as a man who really lived for boxing at all. To me, the story was interesting because of his change of fortune. I thought, 'This is a great story, because it's true. You couldn't make it up.' Braddock had been a very responsible young man when he was doing well as a boxer. He'd saved his money, he hadn't wasted it. He hadn't lived outside his means. He did the thing everybody said to do at the time, which was to invest his money in the stock market. And in October 1929, he lost 85 per cent of his total net worth and was brought to the brink of bankruptcy. Suffice it to say, things turned bad.

I'm hopeful through the debate on this nominee, and the next Supreme Court nomination, we can avoid the destructive partisanship that approached the brink of absolutism in ideology,

In the state of California, many people have an emotional attachment to this bird because they came so close to the brink of extinction. But it may be necessary to take a step back. In a way that's like taking a prize away from the people who have added to the condor success story.

I think all of us were on the brink last year. Just hang with us, give us a year and we'll be back. It's fun to see all the teams win. It becomes contagious. We're winners.

Iraq is pushing this issue to the brink and there's going to be some grave consequences.

California is on the brink of maybe making history. The state Legislature has an opportunity to make a significant impact.

But if he is on the brink of extinction, he certainly may take suicidal steps involving the launching of a few missiles against Israel,

I don't see any changes in speed zones, but it lets people know they are not on the brink of extinction.

The herd is still expanding. In 2001, the Save the Manatee Club was saying they were on the brink of extinction and it was right about the same time a count of 3,300 came out.

The economic fundamentals consistent with what's being priced into the government bond market is an economy that's on the brink of recession.

And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river.