Precariously Balanced Quotes

#1. Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

Sophocles

#2. In terms of fitting in, you know, I don't have a lot of armor up. I'm a raw nerve and it's really uncomfortable for a lot of people.

Shirley Manson

#3. My looks mean nothing to me. If anything, they are a hindrance.

Emmanuelle Beart

#4. A lot of us have scars ... the biggest difference between you and the rest of us is you haven't learned to live with yours yet.

Anne Bishop

#5. The year of my birth, 1940, was the fulcrum of America in the twentieth century, when the nation was balanced precariously between the darkness of the Great Depression on one side and the storms of war in Europe and the Pacific on the other.

Tom Brokaw

#6. I was grateful I could attach my feelings for him to something, even a scientific connection. Chemistry. I thought about the amount of energy we produced when we accidentally touched and had a brief vision of what it would be like if our lips met. Would the world explode around us?

Myra McEntire

#7. Life is a house of cards, balanced on a tetter-totter,
precariously perched on a roller coaster.
The only thing that should surprise us about our surprises is that we are surprised by them.
Beth Cardall's Diary

Richard Paul Evans

#8. And I give you this picture because it fairly captures our nearly fifty-year happy marriage, during which I have offered up an astonishing number of foolish pronouncements with absolute assurance, and Ruth, with only limited rancor, has ignored almost every one. A

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#9. Who knew that when you cut a slit in the belly of the night sky, it bled color?

Jodi Picoult

#10. want to crawl inside his skin and wrap herself around his

Louise Penny