Precarious Quotes

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

There are a broad range of issues that need to be dealt with. We've got the president's name up on buildings in places where they could be a terrorist attack. This is a very precarious situation.

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.

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

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

Every moment is precious. And precarious.

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

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

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

In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune a thing inscrutable, and fame precarious.

This is what he knew that Paul didn't: the world was precarious and sometimes cruel. He'd had to fight hard to achieve what Paul simply took for granted.