My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a…

My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful things won't…

— Madeleine L'Engle

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

— James Russell Lowell

Acting is a precarious business. I have had periods where I felt like I couldn't get arrested, but you have to see it as…

— Ewen Bremner

“entering the past is a precarious business, since the past strives but always half-fails to make us who we are.”

— Richard Ford

And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would…

— Margaret Atwood

There are a broad range of issues that need to be dealt with. We've got the president's name up on buildings in places where…

— Reince Priebus

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

— Robin G. Collingwood

I'm used to always having struggles getting finances together and keeping precarious budgets alive in the independent film world.

— Todd Haynes

Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no…

— Morris Raphael Cohen

Ours is the most precarious work, as you are in one place today, and tomorrow you are in another.

— Antonio Conte

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

— Walter J. Phillips

Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we have, will not in…

— Benjamin Franklin

So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most…

— Tacitus

When I was very young my mother sang to me at bedtime and my dad would often play the banjo or fiddle in the…

— Rory Block

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

— Neil deGrasse Tyson