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Every moment is precious. And precarious.
The world is fine. Our place on it is precarious.
Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient.
Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.
My parents left Germany in a very, very precarious way.
To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.
At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.
Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.
No matter how dark or precarious it may seem, continue to pursue your truth.
Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.
For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.
An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing.
And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.
Ours is the most precarious work, as you are in one place today, and tomorrow you are in another.
My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.
The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.
You can get fixed ideas, and it can get restrictive. So, I try to put myself in a precarious position.
I think these are very precarious times for women, it seems. So many of your rights are under assault.
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect.
Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
I wrote my first album almost as an entitled child. 'Taxidermy' is written by a much more precarious, untrusting adult.
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.
The end of 'Hollow City' left the peculiar children in a very precarious spot, and that's just where 'Library of Souls' begins.
I'm used to always having struggles getting finances together and keeping precarious budgets alive in the independent film world.
If you're trying to get to profitability by lowering costs as a startup, then you are in a very precarious and difficult position.
A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.
Acting is a precarious business. I have had periods where I felt like I couldn't get arrested, but you have to see it as a long game.
Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life is, in a way, a Jewish value for me.
Jobs have become more precarious and staff turnover has increased while union membership has plummeted, weakening workplace solidarity.
When the positions of so many managers is precarious, and there isn't long-term stability, I can understand why they are loath to risk.
What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.
Under neoliberal governance, workers have seen their wages stagnate and their working conditions and job security become more precarious.
I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of a little boy wanting to be loved.
I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird authors.
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.
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.
I realized I needed to take more responsibility, be more mature, not to lose the ball in precarious areas. In past I was apathetic, didn't think too much.
Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.
Most of the clubs I have had, they have been in a precarious situation when I have taken over and I have had to change it, even going back to Scarborough and all that.
With police wielding unprecedented powers to invade privacy, tap phones and conduct searches seemingly at random, our civil liberties are in a very precarious condition.
If we believe in the free market, then that leads to the big corporations taking power, that leads to this competition to lower wages, and that leads to precarious work.
Some people are weak in their faith and testimonies but are not even aware of how precarious their situation is. Many of them likely would be offended at the suggestion.
Cezanne produced precarious little worlds that almost, almost, almost lose their balance but somehow hold themselves together, creating tension, beauty and danger all at once.
The world's my oyster. But it worries me, all this showing off about being happy. Life is so precarious, and I know terrible things can happen. At the moment, everything is happy.
The fact that we define ourselves by our roles can be an admirable thing - it's how we build a life and make a living. But it's also precarious. Roles change. Sometimes overnight.
The political world is defined by relationships rather than transactions, and by numerous actors at home and abroad with independent power. Navigating such a world is difficult and precarious.