#precarious

Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. ↗

— John Donne

#inconstancy #instability #love #passage-of-time #precariousness

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#bring #circumstances #commerce #contingent #flourishes

Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious. ↗

— Larry David

#just #precarious #relationship #tenuous

The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious. ↗

— Joschka Fischer

#complicated #dangerous #iraq #precarious #regional

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

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