Precarious Position Quotes

#1. I find that if I'm watching somebody upon television or in a movie that is on a window ledge or in some high precarious position my hand starts sweating and I get that crawling feeling in the soles of my feet.

Alan Moore

#2. It is at the precise moment that I take something for granted that I have placed myself in the precarious position of losing that very thing. And if that thing I risk losing is liberty, taking it for granted is foolishness of the most foolish sort.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#3. Cold up there, huh?" Yeah, it kind of was. "Stupid down there, huh?" Seth's brows flew up. "For one in such a precarious position, you sure don't know how to talk yourself out of it." "That's because it's hard to reason with idiots." I gave him a cheeky grin. "Why bother?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#4. But today, just a few years into the twenty-first century, we already find ourselves in a different and precarious position. As revolutions in communications and technology have broken down barriers across the world, it has given more power to both our competitors and our enemies.

Barack Obama

#5. In this world we are in precarious position, balanced midway between material and spiritual hungers. We find heaven to be a delicate state of consciousness that can be lost in a single moment of forgetfulness.

Harold Klemp

#6. We want the people around us to show us a satisfactory measure of genuine empathy, but no one has any idea what that looks like. This puts everyone in the precarious position of guaranteed failure. I know that no one knows how to deal with stuff like this. There are no experts here.

Russ Ramsey

#7. We can contain such secret misery, perversion.

Ben Marcus

#8. As with any young species, this one's position is precarious.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#9. My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.

Dave Barry

#10. Diagnoses, Dave thought, were rough guesses, blunt tools, always more inaccurate than they were helpful.

Heather Sellers

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

John Crowe Ransom

#12. 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.

John Negroponte

#13. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

Eric Hoffer

#14. Truly, Mallow yearned to know everything. Curiosity was part of her, like her short blond hair and bitten fingernails.

Catherynne M Valente