Quotes About Fragile

Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction.

Safetyism deprives young people of the experiences that their antifragile minds need, thereby making them more fragile, anxious, and prone to seeing themselves as victims.

The result is a fragile state of political egalitarianism achieved by cooperation among creatures who are innately predisposed to hierarchical arrangements.

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

There was a quality about him - fragile, but at the same time steely and undaunted - that managed to awaken your sense of pity without irritating you at the same time. In a world where no kid can really afford to be helpless, where most of us risk our lives in a matter of course, that was quite a hard balance to achieve.

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

You're like Marilyn Monroe,' Ken tells me, which I take as a compliment and say a nervous "Thank You". Interrupting, he adds, 'You're all velvet and Velcro. Men want you because you're sexy and broken and when it gets too rough they can say "Hey! This toy is broken!" and toss you aside without feeling bad.

In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf

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

If our production process is so fragile that you can break it on your very first day of work, shame on us for making it so easy to do so.

Which is to say, the same things that will likely do us in: the greed and blindness of the few, the hungers of the many, a fatal inattention to the fragile web of life on which our existence here depends.

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

Of course, if we've learned anything, it's how dangerous that fragile masculinity can be.)

She was passionate, prejudiced, charismatic, narcissistic, reckless, volatile, lovable, hypercritical, emotionally fragile, and uncompromising.

Loud people have thin, hollow bones. They can be broken in half and discarded into a pit. They snap as easily as children do, but they will not burn as long in a fire. If a loud person tries to store his voice in a jar, he will not be able to, unless the jar is a mouth worn on the face of someone in his family, which he must prize open with his fingers while shouting deep into the hole there.

Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.

Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

I never learnt Hebrew because my health was fragile, and it was thought that learning Hebrew would be an added burden. I regret it, because I would like to be able to join in fully. Not that I am a believer, but I would like to be.

It's really interesting that, in 'The Avengers,' the character that people relate to is The Hulk, and I think the reason why they relate to The Hulk is because he's fragile and human and faulty.

When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.

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

like a moth lost in dawn's light.

The human capacity for horror is a fickle thing, my friends, and hangs over an abyss by a frayed thread.