Quotes About Precarious

Success is unpredictable and fragile.

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

The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor

Everything that turned out well for me seems like a fluke. I feel like, at any moment, I could lose everything and be working at Dunkin' Donuts.

I find that if I'm watching somebody upon television or in a movie that is on a window ledge or in some high precarious position my hand starts sweating and I get that crawling feeling in the soles of my feet.

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

I hear the same anxieties over and over again. Everything is too fast; everything is too precarious. We have more access than ever to the people we are trying to reach, thanks to social media and mobile technology, and more information than we know what to do with.

One who sits between two chairs may easily fall down.

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, just that it matters. It matters not just to us but to the entire universe.

My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business...

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 step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.

Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

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 my life bearable, because my happiness with human beings is so precarious, my confiding moods rare, and the least sign of non-interest is enough to silence me. In the journal I am at ease.

And here the fell attorney prowls for prey; Here falling houses thunder on your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead.    While

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.

Everything in the world was in precarious balance, pure risk, and those who didn't agree to take the risk wasted away in a corner, without getting to know life.

He concludes that one can do only three things about death: "To desire it, to fear it, or to ignore it. The third alternative, which is the one the modern world calls 'healthy,' is surely the most uneasy and precarious of all.

Don't follow it, I say. It leads only to squidgy death.

If you're one car accident away from poverty, you're on a high wire without a safety net. And that's a challenging proposition.

The impending possibility that it will fall apart one day is torture—often worse than the actual disaster. So, as long as your inner life is enslaved to external situations, it will remain a precarious condition. There is no other way for it to be. What