#precarious

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

#figure #get #how #i #i do

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

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