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An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
Boethius might have been styled happy, if that precarious epithet could be safely applied before the last term of the life of man.
— Edward Gibbon
Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.
— Sarah Addison Allen
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.
— H.P. Lovecraft
I think one who thrives on death may be defeated by life.Elswyth, from A Precarious Journey Into Magic — Jenna Lindsey
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.
— Judith Butler
The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.
— Joel Salatin
Being closed in makes us edgy because it reminds us of our vulnerability before the elements; we can't escape the fact that life is precarious.
— Kathleen Norris
The rewards of art are not always commensurate with its quality. It affords a precarious living.
— Walter J. Phillips
A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
Mothering is precarious. You try to do the right thing - you think you have - then wham.
— Barbara Delinsky
You don't know how precarious things are, how close this world is to falling back into ruin.
— Victoria Aveyard
Is goodwill so fragile, so precarious a thing, then? (Of course, dear fellow, of course)
— Milan Kundera
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
— Susan Sontag
Every moment is precious. And precarious.
— Edward Abbey
But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect.
— James Payn
Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.
— John Piper
Hopes have precarious life.They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off
In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness. — George Eliot
The world was precarious, Lotto had learned. People could be subtracted from it with swift bad math.
— Lauren Groff
The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral.
— Herbert Marcuse
As with any young species, this one's position is precarious.
— Elizabeth Kolbert
![Precarious Quotes By Edward Gibbon: [The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/precarious-quotes-by-edward-gibbon-2181545.jpg "Precarious Quotes By Edward Gibbon: [The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect")
[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice.
— Edward Gibbon
At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.
— Estelle Parsons
To upset the delicate axis of giving and receiving on which our lives are held precarious.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The reticent volcano keepsHis never slumbering plan -
Confided are his projects pink
To no precarious man. — Emily Dickinson
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.
— Sidney Sheldon
... a precarious balance between the forces of good and evil ...
— Jostein Gaarder
It's precarious to hang onto the veracity of memory because its edges are smoothed by the river of time.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.
— Olaf Stapledon
But life was precarious and opportunities were never guaranteed.
— Lorraine Heath
For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.
— Terry Eagleton
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Every profession is an island whose inhabitants earn a precarious living by taking in each other's washing.
— Amanda Craig
Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.
— Simone De Beauvoir
Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.
— Jeanette Winterson
Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.
— Larry David
the only thing that lasts a whole lifetime is life itself, everything else is inevitably precarious, unstable, transient
— Jose Saramago
Life balances itself on a precarious ledge, we can stay safe up high or propel off the edge.
— Tarryn Fisher
This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid for in full.
— Clarence Day
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.
— Gabriel Marcel
Acting is a precarious business. I have had periods where I felt like I couldn't get arrested, but you have to see it as a long game.
— Ewen Bremner
The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.
— Robin G. Collingwood
The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.
— Joschka Fischer
The so-called film star's lot is an infantile and precarious one ...
— Hildegard Knef
The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.
— Simon Newcomb
Happiness is a pretty precarious state, Randeep. I'm content. That's more than enough. That's more than most.
— Sunjeev Sahota
To be young is surely the best, if the most precarious, gift of life.
— James Russell Lowell
You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.
— Joseph Conrad
An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing.
— William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield
I'll no doubt just continue stumbling and bumbling through life, putting myself in precarious places, rising sadder if not wiser, as always.
— Allan Weisbecker
Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
Your love for me is founded in a sentiment. My love for you is founded in the body. A precarious interchange.
— Mason Cooley
In modern times, if the sole measure of what's out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
— Doris Lessing
It is a precarious undertaking to say anything reliable about aims and intentions.
— Albert Einstein
And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.
— John Crowe Ransom
