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Sanity is tenuous. Tenuous. Comes and goes. Many of the brightest people floating about this planet have only a finger's grip on sanity, if that. -- Cathy Lamb
Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious. -- Larry David
As children, we have a tenuous idea of love; we often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard. -- Adora Svitak
Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between America and its military is increasingly tenuous and less personal. -- John M. McHugh
The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived. -- Ken Lucas
My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it. -- Phoebe Snow
Nothing I read about grief seemed to exactly express the craziness of it; which was the interesting aspect of it to me - how really tenuous our sanity is. -- Joan Didion
My great grandparents are Scottish, and I have this very tenuous connection which I try and bump up whenever I can, because I'd much rather be Scottish than English. -- Rupert Friend
I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse. -- Justin Cronin
In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous. -- Archie Shepp
I would say the connection between art and science is very tenuous for me. It's just that I'm interested in both. I don't think that my interest in art affects the kind of science that I do. -- Janna Levin
I think when you're dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it's important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other with the work. -- Jack Falahee
I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city. The novels have an extremely tenuous relationship with the real world, since the hero is the city's Hell and ends up with a sidekick who is a demon. -- Liz Williams
Pre-preproduction is the tenuous time before a project is greenlit; before the studio commits to spending real money. This is the most vulnerable period for any film because it's the time when your project is most likely to be put into turnaround. That's film-speak for killed off. -- Peter Jackson
As a Jew reading about Jesus, I thought, 'He's a pretty good guy.' It's the same conclusion Monty Python drew in 'Life of Brian' - if people actually live what he did, it would be a pretty good world. But Jesus and Christianity have a tenuous relationship at best. -- David Javerbaum
I think the relationship is very tenuous between fashion and art. Many designers have built relationships with artists, which is not something I personally did. But it's true, sometimes you see artists working for a designer or a brand on some specific project or taking care of their environment and making an amazing store. -- Olivier Theyskens
But Jesus and Christianity have a tenuous relationship at best. -- David Javerbaum
If the losses don't hurt, your financial survival is tenuous. -- William Eckhardt
The link between rational individual behavior and collectively desirable outcomes is extremely tenuous. -- Robert H. Frank
Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens. -- Ellen Hopkins
I just recently became aware of how tenuous my life is. I don't have time for fear. -- Mike Phillips
When you live for the fight, for the blood, the relationships you form are tenuous and easily broken. -- Stephenie Meyer
I could never acceptlife as it was,I could never gobbledown all itspoisonsbu there were parts,tenuous magic partsopen for theasking. -- Charles Bukowski
Influence is a very tenuous matter. I try to avoid it in every respect. I don't want to be influenced by anybody. -- Erskine Caldwell
The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
World economies are always so tenuous and we are subject to so many losses in life, but a compassionate attitude is something we can always carry with us. -- Dalai Lama
The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure randomness of existence. -- Nick Bantock
Sex and excretion are reminders that anyone's claim to round-the-clock dignity is tenuous. The so-called rational animal has a desperate drive to pair up and moan and writhe. -- Steven Pinker
I thought how tenuous the links were between mother and children between friends family things you think are eternal. Everything could be lost more easily than anyone could imagine. -- Janet Fitch
It's really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, ... The situation is just so tenuous with where it's going to hit. You don't want to take any chances. -- John Henry Newman
With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty. -- Scott Westerfeld
Endurance is not the frail and tenuous thing some think it, but is in reality the measuring rod of our sanity and may be safely stretched to fill our direst need. -- Jan Cox Speas
Anyone who, for 25 years, has built a career on such tenuous foundations as a high-pitched giggle, a raspberry and a sprinkling of top 'Cs' needs all the friends he can get. -- Harry Secombe
One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from. -- Francis Bacon
She was my friend and I loved her and relied on her, even though there were days when her moodiness and fragility frightened me, because they reminded me of my own tenuous grasp on life. -- Julie Metz

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