Precarious Quotes

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

Long Beach is fast. Every day, you hear something bad; somebody gets hurt.

Every plan is a house of cards.

But he sleeps on the top of his mast with his eyes closed tight. The gull inquired into his dream, which was, "I must not fall. The spangled sea below wants me to fall. It is hard as diamonds; it wants to destroy us all.

What does it feel like?” he asked. “What does what feel like?” Peter thought for a moment. “Being at the top.” Josie reached across him for another packet of material and fed it into the stapler. She did three of these, and Peter was certain that she was going to ignore him, but then she spoke. “Like if you take one wrong step,” she said, “you’re going to fall.

An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.

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

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.

Every moment is precious. And precarious.

We are all precancerous.

Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.

As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.

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

Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.

Unsound, unscientific, unjust and dangerous.

My next book's title is going to be, 'I Have One Foot in the Grave and Another on a Banana Peel.'

Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.

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

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

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.

He's pulling the load of an ox and walking on eggshells.

I feel like a carton of eggs holding up an elephant.