Precarious Quotes · Page 2

If you're trying to get to profitability by lowering costs as a startup, then you are in a very precarious and difficult…

— Chamath Palihapitiya

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

— Todd Haynes

[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice.

— Edward Gibbon

I wrote my first album almost as an entitled child. 'Taxidermy' is written by a much more precarious, untrusting adult.

— Sharon Needles

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

— Antonio Conte

The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.

— Joschka Fischer

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

— James Payn

You can get fixed ideas, and it can get restrictive. So, I try to put myself in a precarious position.

— Merce Cunningham

Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always…

— Bernard Lonergan

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford…

— James Bryce

The experience of a cosmos existing in precarious balance on the edge of emergence from nothing and returning to nothing must be…

— Eric Voegelin

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

— Tacitus

But today, just a few years into the twenty-first century, we already find ourselves in a different and precarious position. As revolutions…

— Barack Obama

The increasing remoteness of consanguinity is everyday diminishing the force of the family compact between France and Spain. And politicians have ever…

— Alexander Hamilton

The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us…

— David Levithan

I understand what you mean by precarious. Sometimes I feel so- I don't know- lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything…

— Haruki Murakami

Inclined to peace by his temper and situation, it was easy for [Augustus] to discover that Rome, in her present exalted situation,…

— Edward Gibbon

I know truth is more like a mountain that has to be scaled. The peak of the mountain pierces the clouds and…

— Fay Weldon

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

— Margaret Atwood

We need to roll back precarious employment models. Temporary and limited contracts were initially seen as a way of introducing more flexibility…

— Martin Schulz

I come from a background where people have had their own business, where it has been incredibly tough for a long period…

— Esther McVey

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

— Alexander Hamilton

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

The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare…

— Roger Scruton

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

— Sidney Sheldon

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— John Flansburgh

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

— Robin G. Collingwood

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our…

— Jane Addams

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

— Joseph Conrad

Under neoliberal governance, workers have seen their wages stagnate and their working conditions and job security become more precarious.

— Mark Fisher

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

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

Criticising someone because of their nationality or race is very intellectually precarious.

— Javier Milei

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

— Susan Sontag

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

— Walter J. Phillips

Boethius might have been styled happy, if that precarious epithet could be safely applied before the last term of the life of…

— Edward Gibbon

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

— Sarah Addison Allen

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

— Simon Newcomb

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

— Richard Ford