Edges Quotes

“When our thoughts are unsettled and our inner world is in a muddle, we may sharpen our wits and try to recognize the invisible edges of our fractured stance. If we seek to figure out, what our life story is all about, we may be able to put the missing pieces in place and identify what is driving us, what we are actually up to and why we are running like mad dogs, sometimes. (“On a doggy day”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“It’s the edges of the maps that fascinate ...”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

“People think edges are bad, but they are really there to keep up from falling to pieces. They don't hold us back, they hold us in. They hold us together.”
― Lisa Mangum, The Forgotten Locket

“A border--the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory--forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders are thought of as passive objects, or matter-of-factly just as edges. However, a border exerts an active influence.”
― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“Complacency is a sword of two edges. One edge kills hard earned successes while the other end stops future glories. Complacency is a murderer and a barrier!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“The way to success is not a straight line segment. It's a dotted line with little packs of failure filling the potholes of broken edges inbetween.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“I tis hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams. Expressways and their ramps are examples. Moreover, even in the case of large parks, campuses or waterfronts, the barrier effects can likely be overcome well only along portions of perimeters.”
― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“The world had edges but you couldn’t see them going, only when you were trying to come back.”
― Kathryn Davis, Duplex

“Imagination reveals the possibilities beyond the edges of our reality.”
― L.R. Knost

“I like to live extravagantly in my mind, she said, but in real life I keep to the edges because I bruise easily.
—Fringe Dweller”
― Brian Andreas, Theories of Everything

“For millenia, scientists always try to measure
the size of this vast universe. One way to know
that is first to find the smallest single thing that
constructs this universe. When they get it, the
real measurement of universe can be understood for sure.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Love isn't a perfect match, but an imperfect one. You are rocks in a tumbler. At first you bump, you scrape, you snag. But each time that happens, you smooth each other's edges, until you wear each other down. And if you are lucky, at the end of all that, you fit.”
― Jodie Picoult

“So I don't care to be too definite about anything. I have a lot of edges called Perhaps and almost nothing you can call Certainty.”
― Mary Oliver, Blue Horses