Precarious Quotes

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

Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.

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

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.

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

Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.

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

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

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

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

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

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.

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.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed.

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

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

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.

Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.