Quotes About Fragile

I was a shattered wreck,--the shadow of a human being.

Nuestras almas están formadas de muy extraña manera y nuestras vidas penden sólo de leves lazos, cuya rotura, puede arrojarlas a la prosperidad o a la ruina.

It lay broken in half, and he looked into its trunk as into the mouth of a black tunnel. The trunk was only an empty shell; its heart had rotted away long ago; there was nothing inside—just a thin gray dust that was being dispersed by the whim of the faintest wind. The living power had gone, and the shape it left had not been able to stand without it.

One night, lightning struck the oak tree. Eddie saw it the next morning. It lay broken in half, and he looked into its trunk as into the mouth of a black tunnel. The trunk was only an empty shell; its heart had rotted away long ago; there was nothing inside—just a thin gray dust that was being dispersed by the whim of the faintest wind. The living power had gone, and the shape it left had not been able to stand without it. Years

I have now become something of an expert in the ways of "decisive" men. They are not firm, they just seem to be. Because they have a formula for everything, which they forcibly impose, they seem confident. But they cannot face the unexpected. They can be far less capable in a crisis than the seemingly fragile women they bully and are secretly afraid of.

Nevertheless, the noise orchestrated by Netanyahu had the intended effect of gobbling up our time, putting us on the defensive, and reminding me that normal policy differences with an Israeli prime minister—even one who presided over a fragile coalition government—exacted a domestic political cost that simply didn't exist when I dealt with the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, Canada, or any of our other closest allies.

the houses all seemed a little senile, with arthritc hinges and window screens hanging at embarrassing angles.

Her every possession was either unbreakable, or broken.

She was eighty-five, and her sleep was as thin as her skin.

Human beings, for all our accomplishments, can be fragile animals. Most of us don't take criticism well at all.

Those plants are so fragile, they had to domesticate humans just to take endless care of them!

The policy of deterrence is also known as the balance of terror and, during the Cold War, was called mutual assured destruction (MAD). Whatever peace a policy of deterrence may promise is fragile, because deterrence reduces violence only by a threat of violence.

Love is a broken vase whose shape everyone remembers differently.

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.

Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.

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

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

Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light.

The road to love is littered by the bones of other ones, who by the magic of the moment were mysteriously undone.

Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead.

It was still quite motionless and he felt it with his fingers; it was dead. Accustomed, no doubt, to an uneventful existence, to a humble life spent beneath its poor carapace, it had not been able to bear the dazzling splendor thrust upon it, the glittering cope in which it had been garbed, the gems with which its back had been encrusted, like a ciborium.

cae demasiado rápido la sangre, cortarla un poco más, más, y me comienzo a entibiar, a enfriar, a helar, soy este trozo de hielo que gotea y gotea, gotea mi nariz y gotean mis manos y mis pies, un trozo de hielo que se está disolviendo y no queda nada.

Juniperkit, who had barely taken a breath before he died, and Dandelionkit, who had never been strong, and who had slowly weakened until she also died two moons later.

You know, the suspension of disbelief is fragile. It's hard to achieve it and hard to maintain. One bit of unnecessary gore, one hip colloquialism, one reference to anything outside the imaginary world you've created is enough to destroy that world.