Precarious Quotes

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

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

— Rory Block

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

— Tacitus

Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we have, will…

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Walter J. Phillips

Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there…

— Morris Raphael Cohen

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

— Robin G. Collingwood

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

— Reince Priebus

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

— Margaret Atwood

I should esteem it the extreme of imprudence to prolong the precarious state of our national affairs, and to expose the Union…

— Alexander Hamilton

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

— Herbert Marcuse

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

— Albert Einstein

It is important to remember that value investing is not a perfect science. It is an, with an ongoing need for judgment,…

— Seth Klarman

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

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

— Allan Weisbecker

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

— Emily Dickinson

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

— Susan Sontag

The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand…

— Diane Ackerman

I find that if I'm watching somebody upon television or in a movie that is on a window ledge or in some…

— Alan Moore

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

— Anonymous

But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect.

— James Payn

Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.

— Simone de Beauvoir

I look upon [writing about religion] as a nice way to get by in this precarious world, though I've never been able…

— Donald Ray Pollock

Aspiring black leaders are often asked to transcend race, even though no one ever asked, say, Hillary Clinton to transcend gender. This…

— Gwen Ifill

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

— Gabriel Marcel