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  • We're on the cusp, on the brink, of enormous change in this country.

    Country   Enormous   Cusp  
  • I recently lost 50 pounds. I'm hovering on the cusp of a size eight, which seems unbelievable.

    Eight   Hovering   Size  
  • History is replete with examples of empires mounting impressive military campaigns on the cusp of their impending economic collapse.

    Military   War   Example  
    Eric Alterman (1999). “Sound and Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy”, p.259, Cornell University Press
  • I always want to be on the cusp of being in the best shape that I can be.

    Shapes   Want   Cusp  
    "Michelle Obama’s tips for being happy, healthy". Interview with Liz Vaccariello, www.today.com. October 5, 2009.
  • Oscar Pistorius is on the cusp of a paradigm shift in which disability becomes ability, disadvantage becomes advantage. Yet we mustn't lose sight of what makes an athlete great. It's too easy to credit Pistorius' success to technology. Through birth or circumstance, some are given certain gifts, but it's what one does with those gifts, the hours devoted to training, the desire to be the best, that is at the true heart of a champion.

  • This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath.

    Letting Go   Past   Years  
    Margaret Atwood (2015). “Morning in the Burned House”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.

  • We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut."

    Nuts   Atheism   Citizens  
    "One Planet, One Net" symposium, October 10, 1998.
  • We in our present generation stand on the cusp of a new and glorious dawn when mastery of these energies lies fully within our grasp as secret yields to inquiry, which yields to experimentation, which leads to verification and duplication, which, in the final course, leads to knowledge.

    Lying   Yield   Secret  
    "The Skin Map". Book by Stephen R. Lawhead, 2010.
  • My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.

    Brother   Father   Rocks  
  • I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

    Facebook: Sean Parker, www.facebook.com.
  • You can be on the cusp of something. Appreciate the cusp, not the something. Appreciate this moment now.

  • The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.

  • I always want to be on the cusp of being in the best shape that I can be. What I'm discovering is that the older you get, the more work you have to do to stay there.

    "Michelle Obama's Rules for Staying Healthy and Happy". Interview with Liz Vaccariello, www.prevention.com. November 3, 2011.
  • We were fortunate at that time we were working with Virgin, and with Flood, probably more well-known as Brian Eno's engineer now and U2's producer, etc. Even though we weren't working in a strictly popular music area, which was great, we were lucky enough to work with people who were on the cusp of those sort of things.

    People   Lucky   Etc  
    Source: www.artdesigncafe.com
  • We live on the cusp of death Thinking it won't be us

    Rap   Thinking   Cusp  
  • She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches where most people never had the guts to go, where you got hurt. Where there was unimaginable beauty and pain ... They were always reminding themselves to stop measuring life in coffee spoons, mornings and afternoons, to keep swimming way, way down to the bottom of the ocean to find where the mermaids sang, each to each. Where there was danger and beauty and light. Only the now.

    Hurt   Morning   Pain  
  • We are on the cusp of the emergence of a company of hidden men and women who with all faith and patience have been enduring great struggles and dealings, being processed by the Lord and filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ. These are not those who seek a reputation for themselves, their passion is His glory and giving Him the church He has longed for. May God grant us all the heart of apostolic fathering and mothering that can release His power in the earth. Zion is once again in travail to bring forth her children.

  • he challenge is finding the modern conduit for the audience, having fun and really looking at the duality of this particular character, that is both devil and angel, and on the cusp of losing control of the pagan background, to this newfangled religion called Christianity. There's a great backdrop there, and just a whole dark side with the magic.

    Fun   Character   Angel  
    "Joseph Fiennes, Tamsin Egerton & Exec. Producer Chris Chibnall Interview CAMELOT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 1, 2011.
  • ...and Jack, who felt like he was on the cusp of being able to read minds and thought it would be all right if Luce wrote him down for that. ("I sense that you're okay with that, am I right?" He made a gun out of his fingers and clicked his tongue.)

    Gun   Mind   Would Be  
    Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.421, Delacorte Press
  • I think that I was just on the cusp of the generation that was beginning to really challenge some of the assumptions about the role of women and the role of men on campus.

    Source: www.elle.com
  • Milk which is just about to turn is akin to that moment spent on the cusp of failure in a dulled and fettered relationship.

  • Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of economics and psychology.

    Psychology   Hot   Topics  
  • I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil whose possibility spreads well beyond that which weapons of mass destruction bequeathed to the nation-states, on to a surprising and terrible empowerment of extreme individuals.

    "Be very afraid of the future", www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2000.
  • One of the most poignant pieces of recent science fiction for me was the portrayal of the adults in the Pixar film WALL-E. I feel like we're on the cusp of becoming fat babies in floating chairs being fed everything in shake form, and I feel like I am as prone to laziness as anybody.

    Baby   Wall   Adults  
    "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.
  • I'm greedy; I'd like to keep most of it for myself and a few others, a few of my friends . . . to keep that superlative high, just on the cusp of each day . . . so that I'd radiate sunshine.

    "Edie : American Girl". Book by Jean Stein and George Plimpton, 1982.
  • We are on the cusp of a marketing revolution. And it's being led by YOU.

  • It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.

    Girl   May   Want  
    Jodi Picoult (2007). “My Sister's Keeper”, p.480, Simon and Schuster
  • A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.

    Novelists   Cusp   Knows  
    Jane Smiley (2008). “13 Ways of Looking at the Novel”, p.46, Anchor
  • My manager lives on my block; four of the apartments in my apartment complex of seven are people I know. It's a really close-knit community, and almost everyone on these few blocks are artists or graphic designers, because we live right on the cusp of a warehouse district.

    Block   Artist   People  
    Interview With Durga Chew-bose, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.
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