Precariously Quotes

#1. The food which I get by begging is divine." After I had thought over what she said, I understood her meaning. When we get our food precariously as alms, we remember God the giver. But when we receive our food regularly at home, as a matter of course, we are apt to regard it as ours by right.

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Sophocles

#3. This is the way we fall. First we lose our balance, teetering precariously on the edge of uncertainty, until, mercilessly, gravity takes over. You can't outshine gravity.

Cassia Leo

#4. He shifts and my eyes shatter into thousands of pieces that ricochet around the room, capturing a million snapshots, a million moments in time. Flickering images faded with age, frozen thoughts hovering precariously in dead space, a whirlwind of memories that slice through my soul.

Tahereh Mafi

#5. Eyeglasses and teeth: both breakable, valuable things that you have to carry with you all the time. Hanging there precariously like earrings without backings, threatening to fall out, chip off, crack to the quick because of some innocent nut or seed or beer bottle.

Ainslie Hogarth

#6. These earthenware bowls are fragile and easily broken, they are only made of a little clay on which fortune has precariously bestowed a shape, and the same could be said of mankind.

Jose Saramago

#7. Maybe the truth of it all is that we're just too fearful to give our faith enough running room to realize that this precariously thin path that led us to the end of this life is dwarfed to obscurity by the infinitely vast byway that begins immediately on the other side.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#8. I feared that if I let him, it would be the final push over a ledge I had been precariously hovering on since the day I had first laid eyes on him.

Nicole R. Locker

#9. Those of us committed to a queer life know that forms of recognition are either precariously conditional, you have to be the right kind of queer by depositing your hope for happiness in the right places (even with perverse desire you can have straight aspirations), or it is simply not given.

Sara Ahmed

#10. Teenagers are some of the most passionate, dynamic and creative people I know. Yet, too often, this creative spark is left to flicker precariously and sometimes fade entirely.

Malorie Blackman

#11. Could she sense her life as she knew it hanging precariously in the balance? Could she feel his eyes on her? Did she have a sixth sense for monsters? The thought of it made him smile

C.J. Roberts

#12. 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

#13. Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity, to revert under stress and strain, under neglect or temptation, to our first natures.

Walter Lippmann

#14. In which I prevail for a moment over the feelings which have bound me and come to realise that no matter how precariously close to the end it may feel, my life has really only just begun.

Phoebe Gloeckner

#15. You tread a precariously thin line between being charmingly headstrong and insufferably pigheaded.

Ransom Riggs

#16. 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

#17. I'm following hot on her heels, smarting from her latest rebuttal, and I can't contain my temper as the flood of rejection washes over me, tossing me precariously close to the edge.

Siobhan Davis

#18. I'd rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in somebody else's.

Peter Mayle

#19. Calvinist believers were psychologically isolated. Their distance from God could only be precariously bridged, and their inner tensions only partially relieved, by unstinting, purposeful labor.

Max Weber

#20. Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that bond; she feared that marriage would flatten it into a prosaic partnership.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#21. And so, it is always the case that the past is irreparably land-locked, and the future has yet to land. And here we are, living out our lives on the precariously thin line which separates the two.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#22. The Chinese enjoyed the grim spectacle of death, Jim had decided, as a way of reminding themselves of how precariously they were alive. They liked to be cruel for the same reason, to remind themselves of the vanity of thinking that the world was anything else.

J.G. Ballard

#23. At times young man, you tread a precariously thin line between being charmingly headstrong and insufferably pigheaded. ( ... ) Miss Bloom, would you fetch my flask of coca-wine? It seems I won't be sleeping tonight and I shall have to indulge if I am to keep awake.

Ransom Riggs

#24. Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

Oscar Wilde

#25. I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

Nancy Mitford

#26. I make wishes, but she says never be afraid to take chances.

Delano Johnson

#27. If you lie down and let somebody kick you, you're never going to get nowhere. You have to stand up.

Sonny Barger

#28. The novelist can't successfully depict such horrifying reality. But she can, and must, try, to bear witness. There are many ways of doing this; the mode I prefer is indirect.

Teju Cole

#29. We bombarded aluminum with alpha rays ... then after a certain period of irradiation, we removed the source of alpha rays. We now observed that the sheet of aluminum continued to emit positive electrons over a period of several minutes.

Frederic Joliot-Curie

#30. Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.

Alexander Herzen

#31. I used to spend $25,000 of my own money on my short films, and I wouldn't make that back, not even close. So I think the Vimeo thing, because it's pay to download, that helps

Shane Dawson

#32. It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.

Diane Cilento

#33. We must move as quickly as possible to a one-world government; a one-world religion; under a one world leader.

Robert Mueller

#34. Full-time lover of your world; part-time lover of God

Craig Groeschel

#35. If you're interested in any artist, go see them live. I always say that you should go see an artist live. That's an experience that only you and the people in the room can say that they have.

Miguel

#36. Art only begins where Imitation ends.

Oscar Wilde

#37. William Atherton has a very different acting style to Bonnie Bedelia; she has a very different style than Bruce Willis.

James Gray