Michael Chiesa

If you're gonna get punched in the face, elbowed, cut up, busted up, injured, have to cut weight, have to bring yourself to the brink of death to show up the next day and try to put on the performance of your life, you've gotta love it. And if I don't love it, it's just not worth it to me.

American Mixed Martial Artist

Ron Paul

I will always vote what I have promised, and always vote the Constitution, as well as I will not vote for one single penny that isn't paid for, because debt is the monster, debt is what's going to eat us up and that is why our economy is on the brink.

American Politician

Hunter Tylo

The house seemed so empty without him. And I thought about the life we'd been building together for all that time. I realized I was on the brink of losing it all. It just scared me into reality.

American Actress

Cate Blanchett

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.

Australian Actress

Valerie Jarrett

Companies have told us that they have employees who are near retirement age. We created a $5 billion reinsurance pool to help them bear the cost of those employees on the brink of retirement.

American Lawyer

Angela Rayner

Supporting any team has its ups and downs. But being part of a united team on the brink of victory, is the only way we're going to change the country for the better.

British Politician

Anne Enright

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.

Irish Author

Joyce Meyer

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success.

American Author

Nile Rodgers

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

American Musician

Joel C. Rosenberg

We are living on the brink of the apocalypse, but the world is asleep.

American Novelist

Often describes a literal, physical boundary like a cliff or building top.

Physical Edge

Used to create suspense in stories, hinting a character is close to danger.

Tension Building

Often found in more dramatic or formal contexts, not common in daily conversation.

Not for Everyday

Refers to something about to happen, especially an event with significant impact.

Imminence

Usually associated with negative outcomes like failure, conflict, or collapse.

Negative Anticipation

Indicates a critical or decisive moment where things could drastically change.

Crisis Point

 from literally the brink of extinction is one of the greatest conservation success stories there are certainly in europe it's really important and natural history programmes for us to also celebrate um conservation success stories i think there are a lot bad news stories and it's really important that we inform people about

The Elusive Iberian Lynx...

 trying to turn the tide we're here in the trenches right in a desperate fight to change our water thirsty ways laser leveling our field helps us be very efficient with our irrigation but we can't just rely on the experts to bring us back from the brink and wait until after the water is

The Water Crisis PIPE...

 But I'll tell you, what helps even more is my sense, my belief, my hope that when it comes to our attitudes to introversion and to quiet and to solitude, we truly are poised on the brink on dramatic change. I mean, we are. And so I am going to leave you now

The power of introverts...

 are really pushing them to the brink of survival. Actually, sometimes me too, when I'm trying to follow them too close. But here's the We are the only advanced civilization in the solar system, but that doesn't mean that there is no microbial life nearby.

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 characterized by a nation versus nation very fragile standoff and basically we lived for all those years and some might argue that we still do in a situation of being on the brink literally of an apocalyptic planetary calamity

Surviving a nuclear...

 back from the brink in this episode i discover why snow leopards have earned the reputation of being the phantom of the mountains and i learned how camera traps and skilled wildlife rangers have become the

Snow Leopards: Ghosts in...

 one of our rarest mammals here in the uk but here in devon a group of ecologists are aiming to reverse that decline and bring the waterfall back from the brink of extinction

Saving Water Voles From...

 back from the brink this is tough in this last leg of our journey we venture deep into the heart of the remote and rugged sarichat reserve

 spent is a message from Satoshi it reads The Times January 3rd 2009 Chancellor I'm brink of second bailout for banks thank you very much

Unpacking the nuts and...

 now threaten all the world's oceans pushing many species to the brink of extinction

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