This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full. — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious. — Joschka Fischer Copy Share Image
“Magic was precarious by nature, and potatoes were safe by comparison.” — Michelle Franklin Copy Share Image
But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect. — James Payn 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
Ours is the most precarious work, as you are in one place today, and tomorrow you are in another. — Antonio Conte 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
No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
I'm used to always having struggles getting finances together and keeping precarious budgets alive in the independent film world. — Todd Haynes 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
Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness. — George Eliot 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 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
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
“We are precarious. Which is to say some good things (accumulation of diverse knowledges, skills and abilities through work and life experiences… — Lisa Adkins 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
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
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
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
Let us consider, brethren, we are struggling for our best birthrights and inheritance, which being infringed, renders all our blessings precarious in… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I think in certain areas the demand is greater than it has ever been, and my business is better than it's been… — George Shearing 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
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
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
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
When I left home at sixteen I bought a small rug. It was my roll-up world. Whatever room, whatever temporary place I… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
[...] a morass of despair violence death with a thin layer of glass spread upon the surface where Love, a tiny crab… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
In the wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, as in so many later conflicts, British women seem to have been no more… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more precarious than an environment whose smallest inhabitants have been completely removed.” — Kim Nelson Copy Share Image
Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
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