Quotes About Precarious

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, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.

Life itself is a rickety building

Life is a flimsy branch over an abyss.

Quite a few people think it wouldn't take very much to return to a few warrior bands, with a few breeding women. Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

I didn't have the answers to those questions, but what I did know was that I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire.

The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.

The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes.

I'm used to always having struggles getting finances together and keeping precarious budgets alive in the independent film world.

Quite clearly. Also a few where you die tomorrow. Actually the next couple of months are quite perilous for you altogether.

Did you hear it? Just about, I said, trembling nervously. That's not good enough. She frowned. Just about will kill you.

What a slender thread the greatest of things can hang by. 1940, 10 AUGUST, CHEQUERS.

But the more firmly Russia can establish herself in the saddle now the farther she will ride in the future and the more precarious our holdfast will become.

I am happy in my marriage. I am happy with my family but you can never be happy on this planet. We are dumped into a bad situation. Human existence is precarious, terrifying and pointless." Woody Allen, May 24, 2020.

Running seemed to be the fitness version of drunk driving: you could get away with it for a while, you might even have some fun, but catastrophe was waiting right around the corner.

They are in danger, but they are there.

and one letter was protruding precariously

We are precarious. Which is to say some good things (accumulation of diverse knowledges, skills and abilities through work and life experiences in permanent construction), and a lot of bad ones (vulnerability, insecurity, poverty, social exposure).

Every profession is an island whose inhabitants earn a precarious living by taking in each other's washing.

I've been in a car three or four times when it filled with water and it's not a comfortable feeling.

Driving a car, you are in danger of killing; walking or standing, of being killed.

parlous state

I'm always standing on the edge of something bad.

The hills had looked friendly in the sunshine, but in this wild weather their aspect had changed. They were not so much unfriendly as indifferent – old, grim and enigmatical. They made one feel that human life was a precarious thing. They made one feel helpless and ephemeral as a butterfly. It was a horrible feeling

What is the absolute worst place in this Valley one could go? The most insanely suicidal place to be found? The place where only a great fool would venture—and only an insane fool would follow?