#precarious

At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place. ↗

— Estelle Parsons

#place #point #precarious #such #theater

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

— John C. Ransom

#conditions #how #new #perfectly #poetry

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. ↗

— Sonia Johnson

#because #breaks #dangerous #dangerous thing #era

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#brings #face #precarious #problem #progress

Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#love #lovers-quarrels #passion #precariousness #volatility

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

#civil war #couple #earlier #el salvador #geographic

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

#been #better #business #certain #demand

My life is quite physical anyway. When you are three-foot-six you kind of have to climb stuff now and again, and you find yourself in quite precarious situations just to manage in what is quite a big world. ↗

— Warwick Davis

#anyway #big #climb #find #just

The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject. ↗

— William Falconer

#anxieties #any #casual #employments #fear

Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I'm riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park - no, I don't wear the dreaded helmet then. ↗

— David Byrne

#central #central park #dreaded #helmet #hudson