It is a precarious undertaking to say anything reliable about aims and intentions. — Albert Einstein 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
Trust to a plank, draw precarious breath, At most seven inches from the jaws of death. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business...” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence,” she said reflectively.” — John Wyndham 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
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
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 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
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
“Life is precarious and improbable, a flame in matter, easily snuffed out. Nature shows no regard for the individual spark, in this… — Scott Russell Sanders 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 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 understand what you mean by precarious. Sometimes I feel so- I don't know- lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything… — Haruki Murakami 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
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
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 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
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
When each thought absorbs your attention completely, it means you identify with the voice in your head. Thought then becomes invested with… — Eckhart Tolle 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
Whether we are aware of it or not, every act of trust carries with it a shiver of fear. A favorable situation… — Piero Ferrucci 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
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
In Cuba, what we do not accept is the comparison of our participatory democracy with bourgeois democracy which has not solved anything… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
It is important to remember that value investing is not a perfect science. It is an, with an ongoing need for judgment,… — Seth Klarman Copy Share Image
Asian Homo erectus died without issue and does not enter our immediate ancestry (for we evolved from African populations); Neanderthal people were… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In its essence the Gospel is a call to make the experiment of comradeship, the experiment of fellowship, the experiment of trusting… — L. P. Jacks Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more precarious than an environment whose smallest inhabitants have been completely removed.” — Kim Nelson Copy Share Image
And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious. — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
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