Quotes with fragile

  • When we speak the word "life," it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
  • Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
  • 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.

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  • Khaled Hosseini All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
    And the Mountains Echoed
    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
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  • C. P. Snow Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
    The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959)
    C. P. Snow
    English novelist (1905 - 1980)
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  • Joe Montana Confidence is a very fragile thing.
    Joe Montana
     
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  • Frances Rodman Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.
    Frances Rodman
     
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  • Germaine Greer Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Randolph Silliman Bourne Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
    Randolph Silliman Bourne
    American writer and intellectual (1886 - 1918)
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  • Chapman Cohen Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
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  • Bernard Beckett 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.
    Bernard Beckett
    New Zealand writer (1967 - )
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  • Arthur Erickson 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.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Adam Grant It's ironic that when you go through a tragedy, you appreciate more. You realize how fragile life is and that there are so many things to still be thankful for.
    Adam Grant
    American author and professor (1981 - )
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  • Ovid Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Jerry Rubin 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.
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  • Margaret Mead Our humility rest upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Bernice Weissbourd Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.
    Bernice Weissbourd
    American psychologist
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Sallust The glory that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
    Sallust
    Roman historian (86 - 34)
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  • Marcel Proust 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.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Carlo Azeglio Ciampi The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
    Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
    Italian politician and banker (1920 - 2016)
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  • Bruce Cockburn These fragile bodies of touch and taste
    This vibrant skin, this hair like lace
    Spirits open to the thrust of grace
    Never a breath you can afford to waste, when you're
    Lovers in a dangerous time
    Lovers in a dangerous time...
    Stealing Fire (1984)
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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