Quotes about Fragile

Fragile egos are put on the line every day. Votes: 3

The searing light of morningAsks unwelcome questions,Fragile hopes soon blistered by daylight. Votes: 3

Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space. Votes: 3

The Post Office is very careful nowadays. When they get a package marked "Fragile," they throw it underhand. Votes: 3

Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world..Morgan MacDonnell" Votes: 3

Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world.. Morgan MacDonnell Votes: 3

We are Fragile, everyone. We all long for something more. Things are said and things are done and the pieces hit the floor. See how fragile. Votes: 3

But this is a story, and in a story there is always someone beautiful enough." - 'The Girl with Two Skins' from A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects Votes: 3

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings. Votes: 3

Did you really think I was too fragile to know what Deryn was?" "Fragile?" Volger looked about. "I hadn't thought so, but now I find you brooding in a bathroom. This doesn't speak well of your sturdiness. Votes: 3

Beauty is a fragile gift. Votes: 2

Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is. Votes: 2

Life is fragile. We're not guaranteed a tomorrow so give it everything you've got. Votes: 2

When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background. Votes: 2

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it. Votes: 2

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth. Votes: 2

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile. Votes: 2

I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift. Votes: 2

I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves. Votes: 2

The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day. Votes: 2

We have to remember that no matter how much hardship we go through in our life, there is always going to be that fragile place in our heart. Votes: 2

Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together. Votes: 2

If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit. Votes: 2

The Internet is brittle and fragile and too easy to take down. It's a conduit for criminal activity. We need international treaties to prosecute the bad guys, but we don't have them. Votes: 2

I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good. Votes: 2

A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it's important to show that even under all this strength there's a fragile side, a side that can be affected. Votes: 2

Female genital mutilation targets little girls, baby girls - fragile angels who are helpless, who cannot fight back. It's a crime against a child, a crime against humanity. It's abuse. It's absolutely criminal and we have to stop it. Votes: 2

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet. Votes: 2

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition. Votes: 2

I can't let the baggage of my private life get into work. Artists are more fragile than normal people. But I know that I am a role model for zillions of people, so no matter how deep you are hurting, you need to come out strong. Votes: 2

Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism. Votes: 2

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. Votes: 2

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile. Votes: 2

In Ireland, novels and plays still have a strange force. The writing of fiction and the creation of theatrical images can affect life there more powerfully and stealthily than speeches, or even legislation. Imagined worlds can lodge deeply in the private sphere, dislodging much else, especially when the public sphere is fragile. Votes: 2

You can't escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can't let it ruin your life. I'm actually a pretty composed person. I guess people imagine I spend my life thinking about crazy, sinister things but I don't, really. It's not like I'm trying to exorcise any demons. Votes: 2

The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. Votes: 2

Stupid, fragile mortals. Votes: 0

Life is fragile and absurd. Votes: 0

Reality is a fragile thing. Votes: 0

We're all so damned fragile. Votes: 0

My happiness is very fragile. Votes: 0

The sturdiest virtue seems fragile. Votes: 0

Success is unpredictable and fragile. Votes: 0

Confidence is a very fragile thing. Votes: 0

Life goes on with fragile normalcy. Votes: 0

Life is fragile, handle with prayer. Votes: 0

Relationships are like bubbles "“ they're fragile. Votes: 0

There is nothing more fragile than civilization. Votes: 0

Everything I love about America is fragile. Votes: 0

Comedy writers have the most fragile egos. Votes: 0

Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing. Votes: 0

Maybe being powerful means to be fragile. Votes: 0

True delicacy is not a fragile thing. Votes: 0

It is always fragile, being a parent. Votes: 0

Life is a fragile and awesome gift. Votes: 0

Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile Votes: 0

Like fragile ice anger passes away in time. Votes: 0

Self confidence for me is a fragile fleece. Votes: 0

Digital data are more fragile than printed material. Votes: 0

Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing. Votes: 0

Dreams are fragile. Reality is a clumsy postman. Votes: 0

I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis. Votes: 0

Masculine pride is an exceedingly precious and fragile thing Votes: 0

Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type. Votes: 0

Life is fragile, yet to obstinately struggle is natural. Votes: 0

We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was. Votes: 0

I find at moments I'm as fragile as glass. Votes: 0

Language is as fragile as the little alpine plant. Votes: 0

How fragile we are, between the few good moments. Votes: 0

is this fragile love/ a way/ to say/ goodbye Votes: 0

don't take many words to break a fragile heart! Votes: 0

Desire can be as fragile as it is sudden. Votes: 0

She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world. Votes: 0

The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder. Votes: 0

All good things in life are fragile and easily lost Votes: 0

You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is. Votes: 0

Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us. Votes: 0

I had this almost Dickensian look. I was quite fragile. Votes: 0

I don't want want to go to jail, I'm fragile. Votes: 0

I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside. Votes: 0

There's something extremely fragile about musicians, and that's their strength. Votes: 0

I think you're a little more fragile when you're younger. Votes: 0

Hope is fragile and needs to be tended and renewed. Votes: 0

Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating. Votes: 0

We're fragile, fragmented souls who are very sensitive to criticism. Votes: 0

We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark. Votes: 0

Life is sometimes amazingly fragile, but some lives are frighteningly strong. Votes: 0

I speak to you. You speak to me. Is that fragile? Votes: 0

The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars. Votes: 0

You play games with people's lives.(...) You forget that they are fragile. Votes: 0

Everything in my life is a fragile decision that somebody else made. Votes: 0

Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist. Votes: 0

Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established. Votes: 0

No matter how smart she appeared, she was fragile at her core. Votes: 0

The Australian economy is resilient, but business and consumer confidence is fragile. Votes: 0

In fashion even what seems most fragile must be built on cement. Votes: 0

Hearts are fragile things. That's why you have to be so careful. Votes: 0

Our global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize. Votes: 0

War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times. Votes: 0

How can something as fragile as a word build the whole world? Votes: 0

Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life. Votes: 0

How fragile our lives are anyway. How quickly things can change forever. Votes: 0

Love turns a heart to crystal...Much more valuable, but much more fragile. Votes: 0

Daisy chains are pretty fragile, and it turns out that families are too. Votes: 0

Love is a fragile, useless thing. It decomposes easily in the tropic heat. Votes: 0

Nature of life is fragile. Uncontrollable events happen all the time in life. Votes: 0

You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity. Votes: 0

The framers knew that liberty is a fragile thing, and so should we. Votes: 0

I like characters that are fragile and a little bit on the edge . Votes: 0

Life is too fragile and valuable to be spent doing something you hate. Votes: 0

A man`s ego is just as fragile as a woman`s heart Votes: 0

Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away. Votes: 0

As for success, I don't care for it. It is a fragile thing. Votes: 0

Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks. Votes: 0

Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites. Votes: 0

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful. Votes: 0

It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down. Votes: 0

Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot. Votes: 0

A heart can only become fragile if unconditional self-love is continuously deprived from it. Votes: 0

Love is a very hard feeling to keep alive. It's a very fragile plant. Votes: 0

Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding/Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind. Votes: 0

The human heart was such a complex organ, fragile and sturdy all at once. Votes: 0

Snowdrops: Theirs is a fragile but hardy celebration... in the very teeth of winter. Votes: 0

Life is more fragile and precious than I can comprehend, but believe me, I'm trying. Votes: 0

The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile. Votes: 0

..and me holding this moment that was as fragile as a bird in my hands Votes: 0

The commonsense rules of the "real world" are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions. Votes: 0

I would always love this fragile human girl, for the rest of my limitless existence. Votes: 0

My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock. Votes: 0

Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile. Votes: 0

I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact. Votes: 0

On the surface I look fragile and insecure; you have to know me very well. Votes: 0

I wish I wasn't so fragile / 'Cos I know that I'm not easy to handle Votes: 0

There's no time to hold grudges when you've seen how fragile things can really be. Votes: 0

Life is so transient, finite, and fragile that there is no time to hate anyone. Votes: 0

I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past. Votes: 0

The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much. Votes: 0

Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn. Votes: 0

If they think that an artist can destroy their faith, then their faith is rather fragile. Votes: 0

Life is but a day: A fragile dewdrop on its perilious way From a tree's summit Votes: 0

Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble. Votes: 0

I can see hope inside it." Rachel ran her fingers over the ceramic designs. "So fragile. Votes: 0

What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel. Votes: 0

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing. Votes: 0

Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery. Votes: 0

Life is fragile, unless your in the NFL in which case you'll need to wear padding. Votes: 0

Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes. Votes: 0

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal. Votes: 0

Cradle of SolitudeFor we know not why our tribulationsare given as suchour fragile formscreated from the dust... Votes: 0

His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years. Votes: 0

His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile. Votes: 0

Cradle of SolitudeFor we know not why our tribulationsare given as suchour fragile formscreated from the dust Votes: 0

In terms of long-term durable storage, the human mind, paradoxically, is pretty good, but it's very fragile. Votes: 0

It is strange how fragile this man-creature is.....in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all. Votes: 0

I don't like things like little sandals that look fragile. I like to look strong and commanding. Votes: 0

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it. Votes: 0

I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce. Votes: 0

Joy sat in my throat like an egg resting on a spoon, quiet and fragile, but real. Votes: 0

What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose? Votes: 0

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it. Votes: 0

We are all jars of clay, fragile and poor, yet we carry within us an immense treasure. Votes: 0

Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people. Votes: 0

I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me. Votes: 0

And fragile is thy tenure of this worldStill haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.(To Science) Votes: 0

Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch. Votes: 0

The state of our state is fragile, but I know our spirit and love for Nevada is not. Votes: 0

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling. Votes: 0

We need one another. There's no reason to judge. People are more fragile than you could possibly imagine. Votes: 0

Your heart... it's a very fragile muscle. You have to take care of it, be old-fashioned about it. Votes: 0

I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt. Votes: 0

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts. Votes: 0

Purity is very fragile when it takes physical manifestation. It is very, very strong in its original aspect. Votes: 0

The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist. Votes: 0

It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength. Votes: 0

I like to be fragile. I like that. I try to be close to that energy and sensibility. Votes: 0

Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush. Votes: 0

And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God. ("To Science") Votes: 0

I don't do well around the angry, bitter and emotionally fragile among us, which may eliminate 70% of the population. Votes: 0

And he realized... that fragile, mortal life wasn't just important to him. It was more important than his own. Votes: 0

Creativity is a fragile, delicate flower,which must be cautiously cared forand protected,from the harsh elementsof "human weather. Votes: 0

Something about the way she moves through the world does not lend itself to the care of fragile objects. Votes: 0

The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence. Votes: 0

[Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge. ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile. Votes: 0

Any system that is deprived of its natural volatility, with government up (unintelligible) volatile, any system becomes very fragile. Votes: 0

Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth. Votes: 0

A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. Votes: 0

We actors, we're a fragile bunch, and yet we need to be strong because 90% of our lives is rejection. Votes: 0

Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. Votes: 0

Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it. Votes: 0

Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. Votes: 0

It's not a bad thing, is it, to be strong in some ways and fragile and vulnerable in others? Votes: 0

He considers me also a little fragile because artistic. I need to be cared for, like a potted plant. Votes: 0

I broke something and realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is. Votes: 0

Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft spoken and loud, all at once. Votes: 0

It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. Votes: 0

The Keystone pipeline will spew a massive amount of carbon pollution into our fragile atmosphere. It should be stopped. Votes: 0

Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells. Votes: 0

A marriage is sensitive, fragile and crucial. Once you mess up with how you handle it, it will shatter Votes: 0

I believe that the fragile-flower, idea-intolerant society of victimhood that is being cultivated in many colleges today is really bad. Votes: 0

Progress is slow, it is uneven, it is fragile and in some parts of the world it is being erased. Votes: 0

A book's a strange thing. It's ideas, feelings. It's fragile and complicated. You can't make them like refrigerators or cars. Votes: 0

I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again Votes: 0

It's fragile what we know. It's gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again. Votes: 0

This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle. Votes: 0

Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate. Votes: 0

As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile. Votes: 0

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal Votes: 0

The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in. Votes: 0

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal. Votes: 0

I think the secret of my light, quick, foot strike is related to the fact that I have fragile feet. Votes: 0

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed. Votes: 0

Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure. Votes: 0

I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again. Votes: 0

Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing. Votes: 0

To find them all in one package...well, perhaps better not to dwell on his package in my fragile state. Votes: 0

Basic science provides long-term benefits for ourselves and our fragile planet and should be supported by all the world's societies. Votes: 0

Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind. Votes: 0

Sometimes I'm fragile, sometimes too emotional, but I'm putting everything I can on my side to be a happy person. Votes: 0

Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power. Votes: 0

(He was) a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic. Votes: 0

History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. Votes: 0

Women are not children. We are not fragile little birds who can't cope with jokes, works of art, or controversial speakers. Votes: 0

The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches. Votes: 0

The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't. Votes: 0

The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability. Votes: 0

Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited. Votes: 0

Stronach's fragile beauty belies an emotional strength, pragmatic resiliency, and intellectual courage. Her ideas and choreography are both enigmatic and playful. Votes: 0

The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together. Votes: 0

Some people are as fragile as butterflies and sensitive and it's your responsibility not to destroy them. Just because you can Votes: 0

Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing. Votes: 0

I'm tired of being Scarlett O'Hara. In my next life I'm going to come back as Melanie Wilkes, fragile and helpless. Votes: 0

She seemed fragile like a moonflower "“ destined to bloom for a single lovely night, and then to fade and fall. Votes: 0

Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it. Votes: 0

We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile. Votes: 0

I don't like to sit back and gloat, because the world is fragile. Life is fragile, so I never really gloat. Votes: 0

Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there. Votes: 0

So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe. Votes: 0

The world is changeable, and its ability to change is so fragile that a single person can be responsible for it. Votes: 0

Public order is a fragile thing, and if you don't fix the first broken window, soon all the windows will be broken. Votes: 0

Americans are so emotionally fragile that soon we will have to be carried around in plastic bubbles and fed with an eye-dropper. Votes: 0

With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality. Votes: 0

There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance. Votes: 0

A skydiver, arrogant in his ability to navigate the heavens, rejects his fragile state and calls himself a God of the skies. Votes: 0

Ideas are the most fragile things in the world, and if you do not write them down, they will be lost forever. Votes: 0

Do you think anger is a sincere emotion or the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain? Votes: 0

How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small. Votes: 0

Our stories remind us how precious and fragile life can be-- and that we must risk our hearts everyday to know happiness. Votes: 0

When a culture simply shrugs about what happens to people in war, it breaks the fragile sequence, the bond between all people. Votes: 0

Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could, for all those born beneath an angry star, lest we forget how fragile we are. Votes: 0

A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference. Votes: 0

Life is fragile, like the dew hanging delicately on the grass, crystal drops that will be carried away on the first morning breeze. Votes: 0

All I want to say is that life is very fragile. We should live every moment and cherish what we have been given. Votes: 0

James Tilly Matthews was not a prophet. He was a gifted, perhaps fragile individual who suffered intensely, and for little if any reward. Votes: 0

We live through the belief of children...Regicide is suicide, citizens. Inscribe that in your hearts. The Great Pretend is a fragile construct. Votes: 0

Big ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. don't forget that, all of you who don't have them. Votes: 0

The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives Votes: 0

Which just goes to show, I guess, that dinner parties are like everything else - not as fragile as we think they are. Votes: 0

Fire is a fragile lover, court her well, neglect her not; her faith is like a misty smoke, her anger is destructive hot. Votes: 0

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile. Votes: 0

The good news is that as fragile as fearlessness may be, it is also a personal quality that we can foster in ourselves. Votes: 0

The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival. Votes: 0

The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness. Votes: 0

To experience biophilia is to love a diversity that, as limitless as it is fragile, both haunts us and fills us with hope. Votes: 0

It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile life. Votes: 0

Do you think that anger is a sincere emotion, or just the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain? Votes: 0

See yourself as a small child, fragile and vulnerable, and breathe in. Smile with love to this small child within yourself, and breathe out. Votes: 0

Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is. Votes: 0

I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile. Votes: 0

There is but one Earth, tiny and fragile, and one must get 100,000 miles away to appreciate fully one's good fortune in living on it. Votes: 0

For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away. Votes: 0

Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports. Votes: 0

Crashing into the trembling void Stretching my hand to you Losing myself to frigid regret Is this fragile love A way To say Good-bye Votes: 0

When it is managed effectively, in-home nursing can become a support for caregivers and families stressed with the care of a medically fragile child. Votes: 0

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once. Votes: 0

Her mind emptied of everything but the gusting wind and how fragile Wolf looked in that heartbeat, like one movement could break him open. Votes: 0

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once. Votes: 0

But I'd much rather face a dozen assassins like LaFleur any night than deal with something as tricky, convoluted, and fragile as my feelings. Votes: 0

You're arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that's a lie, and you know it. Votes: 0

There are things that man is not meant to interfere with, and the robust yet fragile temper of a woman is one of them. Votes: 0

Love transforms our fragile, cowardly hearts into hearts of stone, hearts of blade, hearts of hardest iron. Because love makes heroes of us all." Votes: 0

US Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and I have repeatedly sought to emphasize that the progress in Iraq is fragile and also, possibly, reversible. Votes: 0

Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad. Votes: 0

You appreciate the little details in life once you realize how fragile it isYou respect the afterlife when you realize how powerful it is. Votes: 0

Anna Magnani, Sophia Loren, Meryl Streep - I love actresses that are strong and fragile at the same time. They bring complexity to their roles. Votes: 0

Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. Votes: 0

When we were doing Bullets over Broadway, he told me to be more fragile and I thought I was, but he saw it completely differently. Votes: 0

Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages Votes: 0

A fire scene is very fragile, especially in a tropical environment. You've got to get to the evidence before the heat, wind and rain do Votes: 0

There was a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile. Votes: 0

How beautiful it is to learn that Grace isn't fragile, and that in the family of God we can fail and not be a failure. Votes: 0

We don't all look alike - some people think they're tough, some people think they're fragile - but in the end, we share a lot. Votes: 0

We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable product of any definite process. Votes: 0

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own. Votes: 0

Trust is a fragile thing. All it takes is a single moment in time, or a single word, to destroy what took a lifetime to build. Votes: 0

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings. Votes: 0

From the warmth of her fondness for her horse she constructed a fragile and changeable thing that almost resembled courage. She hoped it would be enough. Votes: 0

Maybe there were people out there whose love could survive anything, but mine was fragile. It needed to be nurtured in order to thrive and grow. Votes: 0

We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which fly apart. Votes: 0

I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one. Votes: 0

Of course, I've known people who have mental difficulties, so I know how fragile people's psyches are and how little it can take to overbalance somebody. Votes: 0

Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. Votes: 0

It's weird making a drawing of painting. I start to realize that charcoal is this incredibly fragile material. I'm making images of paintings out of dust. Votes: 0

The whole thing is you don't want to be pigeon-holed as 'Oh, he's a guy in a wheel chair. He's very fragile. You better watch out. Votes: 0

Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies. Votes: 0

I love ambiguity. People are that way. People are very hard to work out. No one is just strong or just fragile, or anything like that. Votes: 0

Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity. Votes: 0

Anything that we're connecting with that's happening right now, there's an obvious vulnerability - because we're just fragile human beings in the middle of a just-now expression. Votes: 0

Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency? Votes: 0

I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing. Votes: 0

Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex. Votes: 0

What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble. Votes: 0

The whole thing is you don't want to be pigeon-holed as 'Oh, he's a guy in a wheel chair. He's very fragile. You better watch out.' Votes: 0

A lot of ink is given over to mythologizing female friendships as curious, fragile relationships that are always intensely fraught. Stop reading writing that encourages this mythology. Votes: 0

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough. Votes: 0

The world just feels different for those of us who come alive after dark. It's more fragile and unreal, a replica of the one everyone else inhabits. Votes: 0

Women born and raised on this fragile planet have more uniting us than dividing us - and it's the job of feminists to help us realise that. Votes: 0

Life is short, fragile and does not wait for anyone. There will never be a perfect time to pursue your dreams and goals other than right now Votes: 0

The article of justification is fragile. Not in itself, of course, but in us. I know how quickly a person can forfeit the joy of the Gospel. Votes: 0

Happiness is such a fragile thing, isn't it? So easily burst, like a bubble blown by a child, and always on the verge of being carried away. Votes: 0

Things are fragile, but we're all being carried and I think we're all on our path in that sense. As fragile as things are, we're still getting there. Votes: 0

We live on this very small and fragile planet: a world in which there is poverty and injustice is never going to be a safe and secure world Votes: 0

It is curious to note how fragile the memory is, even for the important times in one's life. This is, moreover, what explains the fortunate fantasy of history. Votes: 0

But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile stranger, forever to be won again. Votes: 0

It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us. Votes: 0

Life is very fragile and you never know when it is over. Only one instance and then it might be too late to accept Gods offer for forgiveness. Votes: 0

We were broken, brittle and fragile. The question was, were we still precious to each other? Or, instead of everything falling into place, had it fallen into pieces? Votes: 0

I am as vulnerable and fragile as it is possible to be. I am shredded to the core. I am at the point where I am stripped bare. Votes: 0

Reading Poe was like a near-death experience, the kind that makes you feel fragile and free in its wake. I felt almost as though I'd scared myself alive. Votes: 0

How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a kiss, and life. Votes: 0

Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW! Votes: 0

When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it's like the picked-on kid who has to become funny. Votes: 0

You realize that life is short and fragile; and when you are facing walls of water, you understand your own mortality can change and how quickly things could change. Votes: 0

Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas and pursue our abstract imaginings. Votes: 0

Is there any instinct more deeply implanted in the heart of man than the pride of protection, a protection which is constantly exerted for a fragile and defenceless creature? Votes: 0

Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they're never fragile. They have souls like old leather shoes studded with steel, and they're about as much good as friends. Votes: 0

On balance, I would say that anybody who reminds our lords and masters that the computerized society is fragile... has definitely done a service to the public at large. Votes: 0

I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way "” by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile! Votes: 0

What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway? Why should men not show that they can be fragile or seductive? I am only happy when there is no discrimination. Votes: 0

I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way - by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile! Votes: 0

The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order. Votes: 0

Christmas garland and a rock?" he said, a smile in his voice."Why not an ornament?" "Wolves aren't fragile," I told him. "And they're... stubbon and hard to move Votes: 0

Our planet is not fragile at its own timescale and we, pitiful latecomers in the last microsecond of our planetary year, are stewards of nothing in the long run. Votes: 0

Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds. Votes: 0

Life is long, and sometimes cruel. Sometimes victims are needed. Someone has to take on that role. And human bodies are fragile, easily damaged. Cut them, and they bleed. Votes: 0

I love surfing and bodysurfing. I love getting slammed by the waves - that makes me feel alive. The waves are a good reminder that I'm small and fragile. Votes: 0

It was to be a short visit for the G-shevs. More than four days in the U.S. and Raisa's VISA card bill would shatter the fragile Soviet economy. Votes: 0

If we drill the hell out of everything, including protected public lands and fragile regions like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, America can emerge as an 'energy superpower.' Votes: 0

Trust is a fragile thing - difficult to build, easy to break. It cannot be bargained for. Only if it is freely given it can be expected in return Votes: 0

My mother and I were like two continents moving slowly but inexorably apart; my father, the bridge builder, constantly extending the fragile edifice he had constructed to connect us. Votes: 0

I'd want to bring a flamethrower to faculty meetings. The preciousness of academics and their fragile personalities would not be tolerated in any other business in the known universe. Votes: 0

And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed like a galaxy / and memorized / in her secret and fragile skies. Votes: 0

The fragile art of existenceIs kept alive by sheer persistenceThe fragile art of existence.No time for self-pityNo time for dwelling on what should have beenBut is yet to be. Votes: 0

We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we don't really matter to it... Votes: 0

How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was right to say Leonardo only worked from photographs. Votes: 0

And I know that God made the heart the most fragile and resilient of all organs, that a lifetime of joy and pain might be encased in one mortal chamber. Votes: 0

She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences. Votes: 0

Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble. Votes: 0

I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should. Votes: 0

I think damage to the eye or damage to the teeth is one of the most universally cringing things you can do in a movie and these are very fragile sounds. Votes: 0

It seems Korean women are enjoying a passive and fragile status, intoxicated by appearance. Not only feminism, but any serious discourse ends up being swept away by popular culture in Korea. Votes: 0

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The American dream. Those three short, simple words encompass the hopes and aspirations of all the peoples on earth. The words are not only short and simple. They are also fragile. Votes: 0

If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is. Votes: 0

For the first time, we saw our world, not as a solid, immovable, kind of indestructible place, but as a very small, fragile-looking world just hanging against the blackness of space. Votes: 0

Of all the qualities of human beings that are injured, narrowed, or repressed in the Corporate State, it is consciousness, the most precious and the most fragile, that suffers the most. Votes: 0

The world looks marvelous from up here, so peaceful, so wonderful and so fragile. Everybody, all of us down there, not only in Israel, have to keep it clean and good. Votes: 0

I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away. Votes: 0

I ran track in high school. I was a fragile young man, personally and physically. I tried football. That didn't work out; I broke my collarbone. But I always loved running. Votes: 0

The fragile weave of natural sound is being torn apart by our seemingly boundless need to conquer the environment rather than to find a way to abide in consonance with it. Votes: 0

Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I'd rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time. Votes: 0

My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it is still a light, my only light. Votes: 0

Computer mediation seems to bathe action in a more conditional light: perhaps it happened; perhaps it didn't. Without the layeredrichness of direct sensory engagement, the symbolic medium seems thin, flat, and fragile. Votes: 0

Every fragile beauty, every perfect forgotten sentence, you grieve their going away, but that is not how it is. Where they come from never goes dry. It is an always flowing spring. Votes: 0

It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be. Votes: 0

I think if anything I am perhaps more inclined than most people are to be polite and considerate because I am aware that human relationships are innately fragile and kind of dangerous. Votes: 0

Being married is amazing. Being married is incredibly difficult. Being married can seem impossibly hard. Being married is incredibly beautiful. Yes, marriage is a fragile blend of all of this and more. Votes: 0

....both had learned that everything could change in an instant, and that the heartfelt vows of people in love were fragile words that, once shattered, could cut so deeply you'd bleed forever. Votes: 0

We must imbue our children with principles of the higher-self, principles which see all people as true equals, and above all, which are sensitive to the delicate and fragile balance of life. Votes: 0

We must imbue our children with principles of the higher-self, principles which see all people as true equals, and above all, which are sensitive to the delicate and fragile balance of life. Votes: 0

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past. Votes: 0

I got hit in the face with a gun. I'm not very fragile at all. It makes me think maybe things would be easier if I were terribly frail and fragile somehow. Votes: 0

My passion is to open people's eyes to the sea using the power of photography as a universal language to convince the unconvinced among us that the oceans are fragile and finite. Votes: 0

I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly, Ah! I didn't know, I held opportunity. Votes: 0

....both had learned that everything could change in an instant, and that the heartfelt vows of people in love were fragile words that, once shattered, could cut so deeply you'd bleed forever." Votes: 0

My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me. Votes: 0

When you ask people, 'What's the opposite of fragile?,' they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That's not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder. Votes: 0

Parents of medically fragile children find themselves becoming experts in lots of different areas, including laws and regulations, research and treatments, and the various specialists that support the health of their children. Votes: 0

Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment. Votes: 0

People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things. Votes: 0

Across the world, the lack of accountability for the harm to the environment and public health caused by conflict and military activities undermines global efforts to help fragile countries recover from armed conflicts Votes: 0

Sometimes big things happen, and they echo. Those echoes crash across worlds. They are the ripples in the fabric of things. Often they manifest as storms. Reality is a fragile thing, after all. Votes: 0

There is something very fragile about the beginning stages of psychic development. Eventually, one becomes very strong and the cushioning isn't as necessary. It's still logical because we live in an abrasive world. Votes: 0

When we look down at the Earth from space we see this amazing, indescribably beautiful planet; it looks like a living, breathing organism. But it also, at the same time, looks extremely fragile Votes: 0

It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing Am I any good Will I ever work again' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in. Votes: 0

It takes a great deal of time and thought to install work carefully. This should not always be thrown away. Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved again. Votes: 0

The God I believe in is not so fragile that you hurt Him by being angry at him, or so petty that He will hold it against you for being upset with Him. Votes: 0

In Afghanistan, life is so fragile; who knows what the next week will bring? That fragility really affects the way you're able to report, and the kind of stories people will tell you. Votes: 0

I don't talk like House, or walk like him. I certainly don't think like him. I don't like to think for more than 15 minutes at a stretch actually; I am a fragile flower. Votes: 0

Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as well they do not - most of them grow up before the thread can be broken. Votes: 0

Life was precious. Life was fragile. Here one moment, gone the next. Every second should be milked for all it's worth because you never know when the bottom was going to drop out. Votes: 0

Lauryn Hill is quite political and is very bold and isn't afraid of wearing her heart on her sleeve, and same with Bjork, except she is a little bit more kind of fragile. Votes: 0

I am whelmed, and not overly whelmed, just whelmed about a lot of facets in life - just how fragile life is and the different challenges you have in life, phobias about things. Votes: 0

Something in me was responding now as the audience responded, not in fear, but in some human way, to the magic of that fragile painted set, the mystery of the lighted world there. Votes: 0

Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would happen if she let it go-or got careless and crushed it. Votes: 0

Up to now we have faced external problems in an isolated fashion. One of these problems is precisely the drug trade and what has been the result? A very weak and fragile position. Votes: 0

Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse? Votes: 0

The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated. Votes: 0

It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing? Am I any good? Will I ever work again?' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in. Votes: 0

Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement. One dissenting voice would shatter the whole fragile structure. Votes: 0

Become abundant with your compliments to others. We're all so fragile, especially when we put on a brave face. A sincere compliment can penetrate beneath even the most sophisticated masks to soothe troubled souls. Votes: 0

I wondered what sort of man - or woman, perhaps? - had lain here, leaving no more than an echo of their bones, so much more fragile than the enduring rocks that sheltered them." Votes: 0

There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found? Votes: 0

I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be. Votes: 0

Love is a fragile, corruptible thing. And yet I have seen it evince a curious strength. It is beyond any comprehension Love is a weakness that once in a great while triumphs over strength. Votes: 0

The thing I like most in my kitchen is my marble counters. Everybody said not to use marble because it's fragile, it stains, it cracks, and it doesn't remain beautiful. But I love marble. Votes: 0

No, no, it's not all random, if it was really random, the universe would abandon us completely, and the universe doesn't. It takes care of its most fragile creations in ways we can't see. Votes: 0

I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world. Votes: 0

Music enabled me as a fragile young person to give voice to emotions I could barely name, and how it enables me to give my voice the unique and mysterious power to speak to others. Votes: 0

Reason is an outcome of frailty and resentment. When Will fails to cope with the labour of life, or the life of labour, its fragile remnants are set to construct a slighter world of justifications. Votes: 0

Where was that fragile, golden-fair Dresden doll I used to be? Gone.Gone like porcelain turned into steel-made into someone who wouldalways get what she wanted, no matter who or what stood in her way. Votes: 0

Try seeing your world and yourself this way, eyes open to whatever is before you, mind free of dichotomies. Are you good or bad, fragile or tough, wise or foolish? Yes. And so am I. Votes: 0

If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am loveable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole world? Votes: 0

The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce. Votes: 0

My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones. Votes: 0

Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable configuration, the surroundings, the artist, his work and everyone who comes to it. Votes: 0

O You Who are hidden, body, soul and divinity, Under the fragile form of bread, You are my life from Whom springs an abundance of graces; And, for me, You surpass the delights of Heaven. Votes: 0

We have a natural constant craving for leadership. Democracy is always a fragile and imperfect achievement. Yet a distinct feeling of malaise in our political culture lingers. There is something missing from our public debates. Votes: 0