Quotes About Precarious

Competition makes self-esteem conditional and precarious, and it has that effect on winners and losers alike. What's more, the effect isn't limited to "excessive" competition. Rather, it appears that anytime children are set against one another such that one can succeed only by making others fail, there is a psychological price to be paid. *  *  *

Some people are weak in their faith and testimonies but are not even aware of how precarious their situation is. Many of them likely would be offended at the suggestion.

You look like an accident going somewhere to happen

You will hang like an icicle on a Dutchman's beard.

Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you're in bad shape.

My parents were working performers, so obviously I saw that there wasn't a lot of fairy tale going on there. It was a precarious world. One that they were deeply committed to and deeply loved, but one that required a lot of hard work.

I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird authors.

Do you know how you felt when you would lean all the way back in a chair, and just before you were about to tip over, at the very last second, you'd catch yourself ? That's how I feel all the time.

I look upon [writing about religion] as a nice way to get by in this precarious world, though I've never been able to do it myself.

Love made things feel precarious, and, when you got right down to it, everything in life was tenuous and fleeting and ultimately tragic.

There simply is no way to tread these dangerous waters.

[On learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick:] The passengers are just that distance from death.

If Kartr had an instant picture of what it meant to dangle so precariously over the edge of a sheer drop he did not betray himself.

Many do not understand how precarious Western civilization is and what a joy it is. From it, we get real democracy. From it, we get the sort of intellectual tolerance that allows me to propound something that may be completely alien to you.

I think in certain areas the demand is greater than it has ever been, and my business is better than it's been in 30 years. The music business is so precarious, as you know-you've got to make it while you can make it, and that's exactly what we're doing.

But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect.

I wrote my first album almost as an entitled child. 'Taxidermy' is written by a much more precarious, untrusting adult.

Most of the clubs I have had, they have been in a precarious situation when I have taken over and I have had to change it, even going back to Scarborough and all that.

This century is going to be a very dangerous century.

But it's all a diversion. A card-house waiting to topple.

They were high up. If he fell, he'd have time to hum three verses of She Has No Ankles That I Can See before he hit. Maybe an extra round of the chorus.

The reason they have to play it safe is because their financial positions are tenuous at best.

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.