Precarity Quotes

#1. Precarity designates that politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks of support and become differentially exposed to injury, violence, and death.

Judith Butler

#2. Precariousness and precarity are intersecting concepts. Lives are by definition precarious: they can be expunged at will or by accident; their persistence is in no sense guaranteed

Judith Butler

#3. Precarity also characterizes that politically induced condition of maximized precariousness for populations exposed to arbitrary state violence who often have no other option than to appeal to the very state from which they need protection.

Judith Butler

#4. At this point I'd take my chances with nearly anyone if they got me off the batting cage. Even if this was the Sparkly Vampire Rescue & World Domination League, I was still getting in the damn helicopter.

Dennis Liggio

#5. It's lovely that the Hollywood stars are crossing over to Broadway ... There used to be such a dividing line in the country between Hollywood and the theatre and that's just melting away. It's just wonderful right now!

Julie Andrews

#6. I really didn't have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy.

Richard Marx

#7. If we don't cannibalize ourselves, someone else will.

Steve Jobs

#8. Are you done eating that?"
"What?"
"You shouldn't finish that, Dad's gonna want some."
"The hell he will."
"He will."
"It's so nasty. Son, it's so nasty."
"Then why are you finishing it?"
"Taking a bullet.

Jesse Andrews

#9. Go on home and knit socks, darling,

Raymond Chandler

#10. I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

Lincoln Child

#11. We [the U.S.] think nothing ... of attempting to inflict upon other peoples forms of government ill-tailored to their needs.

Ralph Peters

#12. The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one
soul, and he has got dozens.

D.H. Lawrence

#13. Contentment is not a natural propensity of man.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#14. Because when the film was first mooted, the Beatles didn't like the idea at all. In fact they wouldn't have any part in it. And when Brian had committed them, it was part of a deal he did with United Artists, I think.

George Martin

#15. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as single and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet, on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail.

Robert Louis Stevenson