Top Precarious Quotes
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
Charles Caleb Colton
My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.
Simon Newcomb
At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.
Estelle Parsons
Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.
Morris Raphael Cohen
The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.
Joschka Fischer
Morris Raphael Cohen 
Martin Luther King, Jr. 
Larry David 
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Jane Addams 
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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.
Sidney Sheldon 
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But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect.
James Payn
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Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.
Morris Raphael Cohen
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And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.
John C. Ransom
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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
Hubert H. Humphrey
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There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed.
John Negroponte
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I think in certain areas the demand is greater than it has ever been, and my business is better than it's been in 30 years. The music business is so precarious, as you know-you've got to make it while you can make it, and that's exactly what we're doing.
George Shearing
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