My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

You can never really know someone completely. That's why it's the most terrifying thing in the world, really-taking someone on faith, hoping they'll take you on faith too. It's such a precarious balance, It's a wonder we do it at all. And yet..

To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives.

The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.

Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?

My father followed during most of his life the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Obviously the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past present and future.

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.