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Letter "B" » brink
«I've never seen a Brink's truck follow a hearse to the cemetery.»
«If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life? that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment? that would be the perfect state.»
Author: Cate Blanchett
(Actress)
| Keywords:
be on, brink, disappointment, excitement, expectation, Great Expectations, My Way
«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.»
Author: Eric Clark
| About:
Advertising
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brainwash, brainwashing, brink, harmless, impotent, mirror image, overnight, prevail, subtle
«Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing him to office. This isn't choosing a president, it's casting the lead in a sitcom about the presidency.»
Author: Roger Ebert
(Critic, Lecturer, Writer)
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beguile, beguiled, beguiles, beguiling, brink, casting, casual, choosing, electing, lead-in, presidency, President George Bush, sitcom, sitcoms, the presidency
«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.»
Author: Sam Moore
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blazed, brink, brush, brush fire, from nowhere, gallop, galloped, galloping, gallops, pulled, pull together, the Depression
«I find bringing the country to the brink of war unilaterally five weeks before an election questionable - and very, very frightening.»
«No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.»
«From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto us: / Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbad us.»
«Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river's brink against he come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand.»
«Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best of minds. Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.»
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