Quotes About Precarious

When the positions of so many managers is precarious, and there isn't long-term stability, I can understand why they are loath to risk.

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.

All apex predators survive precariously. It is extraordinarily difficult to bring a predatory mammal species back after they land on the endangered list. I felt it was better to keep them off the list in the first place.

The whole world is a disaster waiting to happen.

The whole world is a dis­as­ter wait­ing to hap­pen.

Paradise is precarious. Just one little thing …" He mimes a little shove. "Can push it into imbalance. It didn't take much to screw up the Garden of Eden.

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.

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

What I've collected here, of course, are just a bunch of scrappy incondite essays, not prayers, but behind each piece, animating every attempt, is the echo of a precarious faith, that we are more intimately bound to one another by our kindred doubts than our brave conclusions.

Your life depends on a random stranger who could kill you, will probably disrespect you, and will most likely pay you much less than you deserve. But even those prospects are better than the ones you used to have. This is the life of los jornaleros – the day laborers.

The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject.

If you're trying to get to profitability by lowering costs as a startup, then you are in a very precarious and difficult position.

There's nothing so interesting as a steam roller that's about to be derailed.

As your trusted Indian scout, it is important for me to warn you that you are now on perilously thin ice

At such moments, I felt that we were like the people in California who live in enormous houses on the sides of cliffs, ghat our lives were beautiful but precarious, their foundations vulnerable.

A hole is nothing at all, but you can still break your neck in it.

Once modernity abandoned a participatory or sacramental view of reality, the created order became unmoored from its origin in God, and the material cosmos began its precarious drift on the flux of nihilistic waves.3

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

gingerly—the word "gingerly" here means "avoiding territorial crabs"—

We live in an unsafe world.

Indeed, we had caused some surprise by having a child not only while renting, but while renting in precarious circumstances, in furnished property, and without the proper contract and strict rent control enjoyed by most tenants.

Actors create and maintain systems, and if they fail to do so, the systems in question cease to exist. The stability of systems is a frequently precarious achievement in the face of potentially hostile forces, both social and natural.