Precarious Quotes

Precarious Quote of the day

... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.

Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.

Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.

Life balances itself on a precarious ledge, we can stay safe up high or propel off the edge.

The reticent volcano keeps His never slumbering plan - Confided are his projects pink To no precarious man.

Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of others is the general feature of our society.

The life of a professional golfer is precarious at best. Win, and they carry you to the clubhouse on their shoulders. Lose, and you pay the caddies in the dark.

Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.

An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing.

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.

The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface .

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.

Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect, save, help- but know when to give up. They're precarious ledges to walk. How do I do it?

In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

We are in an extremely precarious and urgent situation that compels immediate action

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

The rewards of art are not always commensurate with its quality. It affords a precarious living.

An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.

I feel like musicians have such a precarious place in the political discourse, because musicians are, sort of just by nature, people-pleasers.

The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral.

I'll no doubt just continue stumbling and bumbling through life, putting myself in precarious places, rising sadder if not wiser, as always.

At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.

Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine or another.

Your love for me is founded in a sentiment. My love for you is founded in the body. A precarious interchange.

They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however, God gets hardly a mention.

The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.

Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating.

It is a precarious undertaking to say anything reliable about aims and intentions.

You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.

The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending.

The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.

The health of the soul is as precarious as that of the body; for when we seem secure from passions, we are no less in danger of their infection than we are of falling ill when we appear to be well.

To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.

Teachers wondered why I didn't speak up more in class. Why would I when I knew how precarious words could be, how betraying they were, how vulnerable they made you?

The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them.

I think these are very precarious times for women, it seems. So many of your rights are under assault.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.

If you do not understand how finances are functioning, you are in a very precarious situation, at least concerning long-term survival.

My relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond, ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the world.

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.

If you're trying to get to profitability by lowering costs as a startup then you are in a very precarious and difficult position. You need to grow through profitability.

Behind each piece, animating every attempt, is the echo of a precarious faith, that we are more intimately bound to one another by our kindred doubts than our brave conclusions.

Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.

This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full.