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We are on the verge of listening
I'm on the verge of taking a stand.
We're on the verge of all things new.
I'm always on the verge of death in my head.
I'm constantly on the verge of a panic attack.
Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.
Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch
Even in ordinary reproduction [photography] verges on facsimile.
I'm just constantly on the verge of bursting into tears with joy.
It's not an exaggeration to say that we're on the verge of a meltdown.
The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage.
Everyone is on the verge of insanity ... insanity meaning on the verge of the unknown.
Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.
I read Jilly Cooper when I was on the verge of just growing up and I was becoming a woman.
Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
Humans regard animals as worthy of protection only when they are on the verge of extinction.
Anyone who is on the verge of kind of famous but not really relevant is kind of fun to play with.
I love heights. I love speed. I'm on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom.
While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance.
I want to thank Vox Media, The Verge, Recode, the 'Wall Street Journal,' and CNBC for giving me a voice.
My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.
Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.
For me, a good comedy town is filled with people on the verge of a riot. They need something to relieve the tension.
When you're on the verge of depression, a good leveller is to put one foot in front of the other and do some manual labour.
We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
Fairytales were never really meant for children; they were meant as cautionary tales for teenagers on the verge of growing up.
Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
There was a girl who messaged me and said she was on the verge of taking her life, then 'Battles' came on just in the nick of time.
Future is mobile computing - smartphones and tablets are just elements of it. The industry is on the verge of a whole new paradigm.
I enjoy being slept on. It's like being on the verge of a cult movement. But making the underground-to-aboveground transition is cool.
When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation.
I think the acquisition of consumers might be on the verge of being mapped. The battlefield is going to be retention and lifetime value.
All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.
But despite historic levels of obstruction, President Obama was able to bring the economy back from the verge of a second Great Depression.
If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America.
Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change.
A crenelated wall of books encircles my bed, its tottering towers looming ever taller, always on the verge of collapsing onto oblivious sleepers.
According to the politics of fantasy, mankind is on the verge of perfectibility, if only we give the government just a little bit more money and power.
It was a struggle to find myself. I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. There were too many defeats. I finally admitted defeat and went into therapy.
George Lopez is always on the verge of hilarity. If he could ever think of something funny to say, if he had a funny thought in his mind, he's ready to go.
I write with a sense of my future readers being ever on the verge of setting down the book and pronouncing it a bore. Fear and insecurity are great motivators.
The administration in my view is once again manufacturing a crisis. There is no crisis in the Social Security system. The system is not on the verge of bankruptcy.
We grew up on Harold Pinter, Sam Shepard, Samuel Beckett. You're making something about men on the verge of a nervous breakdown, you're going to look to those guys.
You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one - I can't speak for you, but I'm on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show.
The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
I was almost on the verge of studying medicine. But then, I realised I would have to give up singing. That is when it dawned on me that I could have a career in music.
Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.
When I was young and ocean-racing competitively, and working the rest of the time, I was going 24 hours. I was on the verge of collapsing. But you've got to slow down a bit.
To be honest, I was on the verge of thinking I didn't even want to be a film-maker, just because making 'Ratcatcher' had been so tough. Afterwards, I was just ill. Knackered.
Anyone who knows the history of the Pete Best Band or the Combo, we were on the verge of breaking in in America. In the mid-'60s, I had great songwriters; we wrote some great stuff.