Quotes About Precariousness

The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety. (The Power and the Glory)

You can get hurt at any time.

All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.

The art of our time is anxious. Gone are the reassurances of religion and reason and progress. The modern world is alienating, and almost every serious modern artist addresses our precarious position, drawing our attention to the inhumanity of the world we've built. The only solace is our cosmic insignificance.

Her house was built on a foundation of sand. The ice she was skating on was simply too thin. She fell through, into the water below, and is drowning.

As soon as there is life there is danger." —RALPH WALDO EMERSON

There is fear of impoverishment as a narrowly based ideological government, infused with medieval religious rectitude, lays waste to the Egyptian economy, which, given the economy's precariousness, is a clear and present danger to the daily life of millions of Egyptians.

You can't blame the people in Greenloop for having their cupboards bare. The whole country rests on a system that sacrifices resilience for c

Everyone on the Myriad was always one divine whim away from annihilation.

Only one thing is certain: we live on a knife edge. In

Nobody is safe. Ever. Anywhere. I

If she makes a single misstep, you're dead." I feel the blood drain from my face. I always misstep. Misstep is my middle name, right after Mega. I can't not misstep. I have feet.

You're not going to die? Not right this minute. And of course, saying something like that usually resulted in immediate dying. I braced myself for a stray meteorite falling through the roof to crush my skull.

Is it security you want? There is no security at the top of the world.

Any of them could have a disaster before the school year is over. You could have a disaster an hour from now. Bending over. Something could hit you. People carry guns in glove compartments and lunch boxes. Cars spin out of control in minor drizzle. The more you know, really, the more you have to worry and fret about. It's a miracle anyone can sleep at all.

Todo tiembla bajo nuestros pies, no conocemos seguridades, si nos preguntan cómo estamos, la respuesta es «sin novedad» o «más o menos»; nos movemos de una incertidumbre a otra, caminamos cautelosos en una región de claroscuros, nada es preciso, no nos gustan los enfrentamientos, preferimos negociar.

I got a feeling this whole thing is going to come apart like wet bread.

We have entered an age of insecurity—economic insecurity, physical insecurity, political insecurity.

The incompleteness and the uncertainty of our knowledge, our precariousness, suspended over the abyss of the immensity of what we don't know, does not render life meaningless: it makes it interesting and precious.

They didn't know that a bomb had come that could crack all our bridges and roads and reduce them to jumbles, and we would be as poor as they someday, and stretching out our hands in the same, same way.

Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last.

I was always in danger. Always. I felt every minute of the day that I was walking a tightrope and any moment I was going to fall. Part of me just wanted it over.

felt to her as if her family stood poised on the edge of a great precipice that could collapse at any second, crumble away like the houses that crashed down Seattle's unstable, waterlogged hillsides.

Watson in the nineties has been like English cricket in the nineties: an accident waiting to happen.