Brinkmanship Synonym Quotes & Sayings

She left behind her giant M, she's not getting my cabinet
-Toby — Jaclyn Moriarty

I do want to make something clear: SpaceX does have a lot of government business, but we execute in a commercial fashion. — Gwynne Shotwell

If I have an unusual gift, it's not that I draw particularly better than other people - I've never fooled myself about that. Rather it's that I remember things other people don't recall: the sounds and feelings and images - the emotional quality - of particular moments in childhood. Happily an essential part of myself - my dreaming life - still lives in the light of childhood. — Maurice Sendak

Intention and awareness are the two tools that enable us to create anything our heart desires from the universe. — Russell Eric Dobda

This was it. The beginning of the blasted end. — Fisher Amelie

It is the sort of book that has to be rested on a table or a lectern; it is not easy to lift a volume one-handed, and only a basketball player would be able to hold it up and open with a single hand. With its pages spread, it is almost twenty inches wide, and the pages are a foot and half in length; stacked, the four volumes make a pile nearly ten inches high. Johnson's finished tome was stately in appearance - 'Vasta mole superbus' ('Proud in its great bulk'), as he beamingly described it in a letter to Thomas Warton.1 — Henry Hitchings

Sometimes, you're the one who strikes it lucky. Sometimes, it's the other poor bastard who's left with the short straw, and you just have to shut up and get on with it. — M.L. Stedman

I cannot love a lie," said the Lady. "I cannot love the thing which is not. I am in Love, and out of it I will not go. — C.S. Lewis

Guilt is tricky because we confuse it with caring ... It's the next best thing to being there. — Ellyn Stern

And this was why falling for the butterflies was never a good idea. I didn't feel all bubbly and excited now. I felt cold and broken and empty.
- Rachel — Lindsey Kelk

I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way. — Steve Buscemi

Love is blind.

Also: deaf, dumb, and on fire. — Julio Alexi Genao

The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere. — Michel De Certeau