Precarious Quotes

108 Precarious quotes by 103 unique authors

Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is… — Sonia Johnson
I think these are very precarious times for women, it seems. So many of your rights are under assault. — Richard L. Hanna
An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small. — Joseph Wood Krutch
The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work. — Robin G. Collingwood
As a matter of principle, humanity is precarious: each person can only believe what he recognizes to be true internally and, at the same time,… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
My hold on the past and the future is precarious and my possession of my own time is always postponed until a stage when I… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
The rewards of art are not always commensurate with its quality. It affords a precarious living. — Walter J. Phillips
Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine… — Susan Neiman
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. — Charles Caleb Colton
Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious. — Larry David
For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human. — Terry Eagleton
A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office. — Hubert H. Humphrey
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse. — Doris Lessing
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. — Susan Sontag
You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you… — Libba Bray
This is what he knew that Paul didn't: the world was precarious and sometimes cruel. He'd had to fight hard to achieve what Paul simply… — Kim Edwards
The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers. — Joel Salatin
Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence. — John Wyndham
I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only one which makes… — Anais Nin
The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as… — David Levithan
Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is… — Alain de Botton
My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful things won't happen,… — Madeleine L'Engle
Since September it's just gotten colder and colder. There's less daylight now, I've noticed too. This can only mean one thing - the sun is… — Bill Watterson
As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often… — Iris Murdoch

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