My sense of humour has gone haywire I feed it miseries It laughs at me What a precarious predicament! — Nick Kler Copy Share Image
For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The reticent volcano keeps His never slumbering plan - Confided are his projects pink To no precarious man. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Your love for me is founded in a sentiment. My love for you is founded in the body. A precarious interchange. — Mason Cooley 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
So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work. — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
This is what he knew that Paul didn't: the world was precarious and sometimes cruel. He'd had to fight hard to achieve… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I come from a background where people have had their own business, where it has been incredibly tough for a long period… — Esther McVey Copy Share Image
I should esteem it the extreme of imprudence to prolong the precarious state of our national affairs, and to expose the Union… — Alexander Hamilton 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
“For Nautzera there was no present, only the clamour of a harrowing past and the threat of a corresponding future. For Nautzera,… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
I kind of build a novel the way marine polyps build a coral reef, it's millions and millions of little precarious bodies… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
What about precarious labor? It's actually not the most efficient form of labor at all. They were much more efficient when they… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind… — Roger Caillois Copy Share Image
If you have given up your militia, and Congress shall refuse to arm them, you have lost every thing. Your existence will… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Under neoliberal governance, workers have seen their wages stagnate and their working conditions and job security become more precarious. — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Germany is not a fair country. Millions of people believe that things aren't fair in this country. Company profits and bonus payments… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Precarious, life is. A flying leap. A sweep of hand. A star flung across the night. A lucky catch in this whirling… — Rivera Sun Copy Share Image
Boethius might have been styled happy, if that precarious epithet could be safely applied before the last term of the life of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out… — Sonia Johnson Copy Share Image
MTV has always given artists a platform to get their stories and music out to their fans and this series reveals the… — T.I Copy Share Image
Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the… — Hilaire Belloc 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
A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another,… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Most of the clubs I have had, they have been in a precarious situation when I have taken over and I have… — Neil Warnock Copy Share Image