Paul Auster

I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which people don't need. I'm anti-consumerism; I own four pairs of black Levis and that's it.

American Author

Rowan Ricardo Phillips

In 1979, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird entered the league. I remember that. Soon after this, the story began to be repeated ad nauseam: the NBA, a tottering mess in the seventies, was saved in the eighties by these two.

American Poet

Kalki Koechlin

It's only over time that you get to exploring or adding nuances to the character. Like my part in 'Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara' - I am so not the person who wears high heels and totters about like a poodle.

French Actress

Donna Brazile

Men don't wear high heels, and they don't make allowances for women who do. Tottering down the corridors of power in beautiful but crippling stilettos telegraphs your preference for style over substance.

American Politician

Christina Rossetti

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

British Poet

Desmond Tutu

When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of the table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in South Africa you are blamed when that happens.

South African Leader

Simon Sebag Montefiore

A crenelated wall of books encircles my bed, its tottering towers looming ever taller, always on the verge of collapsing onto oblivious sleepers.

British Historian

Terry Teachout

Most 'Monty Python' fans are, of course, baby boomers, who have long been a nostalgic lot and are growing more so as they totter toward old age.

American Critic

Dorothy L. Sayers

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.

British Author

Vladimir Lenin

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

Russian Leader

Use 'totter' to describe someone who is unsteady like a baby learning to walk.

Physical instability

'Totter' can show someone's lack of confidence in their movement, not just imbalance.

Lack of confidence

Use 'totter' to describe movements affected by external conditions, like high winds.

Impact of conditions

Use 'totter' for situations or entities that are close to failing or collapsing.

Metaphorical use

'Totter' captures the essence of uncertainty or instability in various contexts.

Uncertain conditions

Often used to talk about political, economic, or social structures in trouble.

Political or economic context

 If you both weigh about the same, you can totter back and forth pretty easily. But what happens if your friend weighs more? Suddenly, you're stuck up in the air. Fortunately, you probably know what to do.

The mighty mathematics...

 who would suspect them to be exercises in an intimate, fierce discipline, a metaphysics of being relentlessly aware? Such understated power here, in these tottering dancers who exert stupendous effort

4 Powerful Poems about...

 the huge total at the moment but by the tenth the day I was doing some presentation from the tent I saw that there is an old tortoise shell from a hinge totter showing that the is a hinge