Top 211 Precarious Quotes & Sayings

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

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

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

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

The rewards of art are not always commensurate with its quality. It affords a precarious living.

What about precarious labor? It's actually not the most efficient form of labor at all. They were much more efficient when they had loyalty to their workers and people were allowed to be creative and contribute - you know that what precarious labor does is that it's the best weapon ever made to depoliticize labor. They're always putting the political in front of the economic.

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

We are in an extremely precarious and urgent situation that compels immediate action

The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.

The life of a professional golfer is precarious at best. Win, and they carry you to the clubhouse on their shoulders. Lose, and you pay the caddies in the dark.

If you do not understand how finances are functioning, you are in a very precarious situation, at least concerning long-term survival.

To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.

Life balances itself on a precarious ledge, we can stay safe up high or propel off the edge.

Boethius might have been styled happy, if that precarious epithet could be safely applied before the last term of the life of man.

Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.

In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.

[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice.

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

Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.

Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating.

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

I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of a little boy wanting to be loved.

The so-called film star's lot is an infantile and precarious one.

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.

At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.

The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them.

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.

An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing.

It is a precarious undertaking to say anything reliable about aims and intentions.

The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full.

You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.

No matter how dark or precarious it may seem, continue to pursue your truth.

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

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.

The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

The end of 'Hollow City' left the peculiar children in a very precarious spot, and that's just where 'Library of Souls' begins.

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.

I'll no doubt just continue stumbling and bumbling through life, putting myself in precarious places, rising sadder if not wiser, as always.

You can get fixed ideas, and it can get restrictive. So, I try to put myself in a precarious position.

The health of the soul is as precarious as that of the body; for when we seem secure from passions, we are no less in danger of their infection than we are of falling ill when we appear to be well.

Every moment is precious. And precarious.

The world is fine. Our place on it is precarious.

Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.

Trust to a plank, draw precarious breath, At most seven inches from the jaws of death.

Under neoliberal governance, workers have seen their wages stagnate and their working conditions and job security become more precarious.

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

Ours is the most precarious work, as you are in one place today, and tomorrow you are in another.

Jobs have become more precarious and staff turnover has increased while union membership has plummeted, weakening workplace solidarity.

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

I think these are very precarious times for women, it seems. So many of your rights are under assault.

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

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.

Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life is, in a way, a Jewish value for me.

Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.

Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

In modern times, if the sole measure of what’s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.