Quotes by Precarious 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. David Levithan precarious strong thinking The world is fine. Our place on it is precarious. Eden Robinson precarious fine world Every moment is precious. And precarious. Edward Abbey precarious moments At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place. Estelle Parsons precarious theater america ... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope. Gabriel Marcel precarious conquest persons 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. Iris Murdoch precarious void states And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious. John Crowe Ransom precarious ransom position Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence. John Wyndham precarious existence treasure Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition. Jose Ortega y Gasset precarious acquisition men Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient. Simone de Beauvoir precarious proxy An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing. William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield precarious values justice