Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.
The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.
As a kid, when I got to the edge of a cliff I wanted to jump off. I didn't want to kill myself. I wanted to fly.
I've probably said a million times in my life something about, "All those people are just lemmings. They'd follow each other off a cliff." Well, no such thing.
Sydney's most famous beach is Bondi. At its southern end is Bondi Baths, an eight-lane, 50-meter saltwater pool built into the cliffs.
I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.
It's too late to change your mind after you've jumped off the cliff.
Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.
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?"
And turns out, it's not Republicans throwing granny off a cliff... It's the Fed!?
It's like standing on the edge of a cliff. This is especially true of the first draft. Every day you're making up the earth you're going to stand on.
July 24, 6:03 A.M. The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff... Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing. He killed himself for wanting to live.
Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me" "Do what?" "Push me off the same cliff twice
Go jump off a cliff, Leah.
You can't jump off a cliff when you have already fallen off a bigger one.
And that was it. All this buildup to a great leap, and I didn't fall or fly. Instead I found myself back on the edge of the cliff, blinking, wondering if I'd ever jumped at all. It's not supposed to be like this.
The Republicans are... there is a small [Donald] Trump remnant, which is going over the cliff right now.
Do you like foreign films?” “With subtitles?” “Yes.” “I hate those types of films.” “Me too,” Cliff says. “Mostly because - “ “No happy endings.
The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs are here composed, into a sort of rude steps.
The only man who can stop Cliff Robinson is Cliff Robinson. The man is unstoppable even at 38.
Incrementalism ceases to be a good strategy when there's a cliff on the route.
Dive today from the cliff of what you know into what you can't know.
In the four hundred and thirteenth year of the Christian era, some three hundred miles above Alexandria, the young monk Philammon was sitting on the edge of a low range of inland cliffs, crested with drifting sand.
The way up is a staircase. The way down is a cliff.
If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff?
