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Quotes About Fragile

Because I'm so pale, I am basically like a new-born fish, you can see my heart through my chest, like I'm see-through, I'm so blue.
~ Alice Levine
Marriage, or any committed partnership, has become sacred to me, powerful and fragile all at the same time.
~ Emily V. Gordon
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
~ Peter Lerangis
In short, the emerging conversation is in a unique place to acknowledge the long-forgotten insight that God hides in God's visibility, realizing that revelation embraces concealment at one and the same time as it embraces manifestation and that our various interpretations of revelation will always be provisional, fragile and fragmentary.
~ Peter Rollins
Thompson: No, you get around that with idioms in the language. Some people write fragile code and some people write very structurally sound code, and this is a condition of people. I think in almost any language you can write fragile code. My definition of fragile code is, suppose you want to add a feature—good code, there's one place where you add that feature and it fits; fragile code, you've got to touch ten places.
~ Peter Seibel
etiolated skin.' Anselm blew smoke.
~ Peter Temple
What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow.
~ Phil Donahue
Mercedes was not a strong woman. Her bones and limbs seemed too fragile, as if they could break easily if she were pushed or fell. It had taken her months to recover from each birth. She was an extremely sensitive woman, and the brutalities she had observed in life had given her a seriousness beyond her years. She put her faith in God and believed Satan was always there, tempting people with all things bad. One always had to be vigilant against the forces of evil.
~ Philip Carlo
Joys are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too.
~ Philip James Bailey
The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.
~ Philip Sugden
I am a thread too slender To suspend all this reality...
~ Phillip Pulfrey
Chet Faker's a reference to the late Chet Baker. I'm a big fan of his vocal style; it's quite fragile and soft, and that was a style I wanted to take on.
~ Chet Faker
All my life, I've been the kind of person who could shatter easily.
~ Faye Dunaway
She seemed more pitiable than murderable.
~ Jonathan Franzen
His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
This is what we're like. We are broken individuals, committing to what will be a broken union in a broken world.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I said there are certain flowers that wilt if you put them in a vase' (368).
~ Jorge Amado
A página de perfeição, a página na qual nenhuma palavra pode ser alterada sem prejuízo, é a mais precária de todas.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
But I am so afraid of disturbing this fragile silence.
~ Abdulrazak Gurnah
Reputation is like fine china once broken it's very hard to repair.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I've got one foot in the grave and another on a banana peel.
~ Ralphie May
Friable isn't often used of food, yet its meaning lends itself perfectly to pastry and crumbly biscuits.
~ Susie Dent
pendientes a toda horas de una logística vital que siempre es demasiado frágil (...). Esas mujeres reales no tienen tiempo ni ganas de estar en casa incómodas.
~ Pilar Bravo
When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.
~ Pliny (the Elder)