Quotes About Frail

He was like a fireman of intellectual life, rescuing frail forgotten thinkers from the burning building of time.

We're a disgraceful lot.

The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.

she looked fragile enough that she might shatter if touched.

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

Time passeth swift away; Our life is frail, and we may die to-day.

We danced our youth in a dreamed of city, Venice, paradise, proud and pretty, We lived for love and lust and beauty, Pleasure then our only duty. Floating them twixt heaven and Earth And drank on plenties blessed mirth We thought ourselves eternal then, Our glory sealed by God's own pen. But paradise, we found is always frail, Against man's fear will always fail.

To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational.

The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man.

In truth, the best works of art are by no means the most perfect ones, but rather those whose imperfection bears the most profound witness to their fundamental contradictions. That is why those works, whose success takes its measure from the failure of the world, assume something helpless, frail and disorganized under the gaze of contemporary cultural administration.

skinny as horsehair in a glass of milk

Jeezum—humans were like eggshells.

Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.

His father rode sitting forward slightly in the saddle, holding the reins in one hand about two inches above the saddlehorn. So thin and frail, lost in his clothes. Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be.

In the days to come the frail black rebuses of blood in those sands would crack and break and drift away so that in the circuit of few suns all trace of the destruction of these people would be erased.

You can murder children and frail maidens that way, but not real men. He would wake up and start to defend himself. Besides, it was his birthday, and he would never forgive her if she tried to kill him on his sixty-fifth birthday.

Ours is a lank country and on the naked edge of her knife our frail flag burns.

And so we place the burden of remaining pure on lesser shoulders? … Do you really believe the Jedi should be the tools of such frail [government] institutions?" - Jacen Solo

turned back around before she could focus on him. It was at this moment that the black-robed Judge Christian Abernathy stepped into the courtroom. He was old, bespectacled, and frail, and his white hair, what was left of

Aloft, he looked frail, diseased, and temperamental, as we expected a European to look.

Women, mysterious, vulnerable, enticing and full of mixed up loves and hates,' he drawled. 'Frail reeds that often survive a storm while male oaks go crashing . . . must I really number you among them just yet, pixie? Can't I go on thinking of you as a charming infant?

the soul's frail dwelling-house

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake, the wind may enter, the rain may enter, but the Kind of England cannot enter, all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement

Though my appetite for food grew frail, my hunger for books was constant.