Tenuous Quotes

45 quotes by 41 authors

Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
World economies are always so tenuous and we are subject to so many losses in life, but a compassionate attitude is something we can always… — Dalai Lama
My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd… — Phoebe Snow
The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a kind of mist… — Czeslaw Milosz
Henceforth the cosmos, once a swarm of blazing galaxies, each a swarm of stars, was composed wholly of star-corpses. These dark grains drifted through the… — Olaf Stapledon
Sex and excretion are reminders that anyone's claim to round-the-clock dignity is tenuous. The so-called rational animal has a desperate drive to pair up and… — Steven Pinker
The â€˜Iâ€™ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the â€˜Iâ€™ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a representation of the… — Janet Malcolm
If the losses don't hurt, your financial survival is tenuous. — William Eckhardt
I wasn't going to say anything about that, Tabitha," he said quietly. "I only wanted to tell you that your compassion for other people overwhelms… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I just recently became aware of how tenuous my life is. I don't have time for fear. — Mike Phillips
Influence is a very tenuous matter. I try to avoid it in every respect. I don't want to be influenced by anybody. — Erskine Caldwell
Together they [President Nixon and Secretary Kissinger] pursued ends that frequently had a tenuous link with reality, using means that were not merely disproportionate but… — William Shawcross
Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less personal. — John M. McHugh
When you get down to the bottom of it, only about half of what we remember really happened. We tend to modify things to make… — David Eddings
In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without… — Archie Shepp
As a Jew reading about Jesus, I thought, 'He's a pretty good guy.' It's the same conclusion Monty Python drew in 'Life of Brian' -… — David Javerbaum
It's really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, ... The situation is just so tenuous with where it's going to hit. You… — John Henry Newman
I think the relationship is very tenuous between fashion and art. Many designers have built relationships with artists, which is not something I personally did.… — Olivier Theyskens
The people who survive avoid snowball scenarios in which bad trades cause them to become emotionally destabilized and make more bad trades. They are also… — William Eckhardt
I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I… — Justin Cronin

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