“Magic was precarious by nature, and potatoes were safe by comparison.” — Michelle Franklin Copy Share Image
To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence. — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing. — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Copy Share Image
I think these are very precarious times for women, it seems. So many of your rights are under assault. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
In modern times, if the sole measure of what’s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious. — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more precarious than an environment whose smallest inhabitants have been completely removed.” — Kim Nelson Copy Share Image
Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we have, will… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People conclude that if the famous can be dragged through the virtual public square and unceremoniously dumped, the fate of any random… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
I don't know if you've ever been shoved into the bow of a nutshell pram, a boat that is very easily almost… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I Lived on the street when i was a kid, i wasn’t even at school, so i had a whole different set… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In this world we are in precarious position, balanced midway between material and spiritual hungers. We find heaven to be a delicate… — Harold Klemp Copy Share Image
In a nuclear age, and in an age of serious environmental degradation, apocalyptic belief creates a serious second order danger. The precarious… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
It is significant that the socialist mentality is usually also an atheistic mentality, where atheism is understood not so much as the… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
The problems of the global economy are not based in perception, but in the reality of prices, balance sheets and income statements,… — Charles Hugh Smith Copy Share Image
Aspiring black leaders are often asked to transcend race, even though no one ever asked, say, Hillary Clinton to transcend gender. This… — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
But really - look at the span of my career, and it's something people dream about. And to be spared major injury:… — Mario Andretti Copy Share Image
One good Man may take another's Word, if they so agree, but a whole Nation ought never to trust to any Honesty,… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Interference is a terrific page-turner, but it's also a haunting, powerful look at the way families and friendships entangle us all. Berry… — Rebecca Godfrey Copy Share Image
As a matter of principle, humanity is precarious: each person can only believe what he recognizes to be true internally and, at… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
My hold on the past and the future is precarious and my possession of my own time is always postponed until a… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today. — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence,” she said reflectively.” — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope. — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
