Precarious Quotes

108 quotes by 103 authors

I Lived on the street when i was a kid, i wasnâ€™t even at school, so i had a whole different set of experiences for… — Jared Leto
Aspiring black leaders are often asked to transcend race, even though no one ever asked, say, Hillary Clinton to transcend gender. This is a precarious… — Gwen Ifill
There is a precarious balance to the life of a building. It has nothing to do with its age, or the beauty of its construction.… — Natsuhiko Kyogoku
Every moment is precious. And precarious. — Edward Abbey
Asian Homo erectus died without issue and does not enter our immediate ancestry (for we evolved from African populations); Neanderthal people were collateral cousins, perhaps… — Stephen Jay Gould
It is a precarious undertaking to say anything reliable about aims and intentions. — Albert Einstein
It would be beautiful to photograph the winners of everything from Nobel to booby prize, clutching trophy, or money or certificate, solemn or smiling or… — Diane Arbus
An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing. — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare and precarious, that… — Roger Scruton
My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher. — Simon Newcomb
At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place. — Estelle Parsons
You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence. — Joseph Conrad
Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind of precarious slime,… — Roger Caillois
Loss of genetic diversity in agriculture is leading us to a rendezvous with extinction--to the doorstep of hunger on a scale we refuse to imagine.… — Cary Fowler
But today, just a few years into the twenty-first century, we already find ourselves in a different and precarious position. As revolutions in communications and… — Barack Obama
And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look… — Margaret Atwood
When each thought absorbs your attention completely, it means you identify with the voice in your head. Thought then becomes invested with a sense of… — Eckhart Tolle
I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith,… — Will Durant
For peace is not simply the absence of warfare, based on a precarious balance of power; it is fashioned by efforts directed day after day… — Pope Paul VI
So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious… — Tacitus

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