The increasing remoteness of consanguinity is everyday diminishing the force of the family compact between France and Spain. And politicians have ever… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
That's why I've never thought of retiring because I do it all the time whether on the stage or off. I found… — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
You can get fixed ideas, and it can get restrictive. So, I try to put myself in a precarious position. — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador lived through times of cruel and ruthless capitalism where the workers, the masses of the population, saw themselves… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The experience of a cosmos existing in precarious balance on the edge of emergence from nothing and returning to nothing must be… — Eric Voegelin Copy Share Image
I wrote my first album almost as an entitled child. 'Taxidermy' is written by a much more precarious, untrusting adult. — Sharon Needles Copy Share Image
What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
The Gauls were endowed with all the advantages of art and nature; but as they wanted courage to defend them, they were… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There is a precarious balance to the life of a building. It has nothing to do with its age, or the beauty… — Natsuhiko Kyogoku 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
To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life. — James Russell Lowell 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
If you do not understand how finances are functioning, you are in a very precarious situation, at least concerning long-term survival. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Cricket is a most precarious profession; it is called a team game but, in fact, no one is so lonely as a… — John Arlott Copy Share Image
It was while teaching philosophy that I saw how easily one can say ... what one wants to say. ... In fact,… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher. — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must arise much… — Marjory Stephenson 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
In much the same way, motherhood has become the essential female experience, valued above all others: giving life is where it's at.… — Virginie Despentes Copy Share Image
Most people with good jobs, middle-class occupations, what have you, are only one pitfall away from social embarrassment and destitution. It's so… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating. — Norman Douglas 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
Inclined to peace by his temper and situation, it was easy for [Augustus] to discover that Rome, in her present exalted situation,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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