Precarious Quotes

108 Precarious quotes by 103 unique authors

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
In its essence the Gospel is a call to make the experiment of comradeship, the experiment of fellowship, the experiment of trusting the heart of… — L. P. Jacks
Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of a lately… — Pliny the Elder
The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. And a man… — Robert Louis Stevenson
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every… — William Hazlitt
Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown… — James Bryce
Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that the profound idea… — Maurice Maeterlinck
This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full. — Clarence Day
There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in… — John Negroponte
And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious. — John Crowe Ransom

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