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Quotes About Fragile

Mira: todo lo fuerte se hace, con su adorno, delicado. Más rosas, más rosas, más rosas...
~ Juan Ramón Jiménez
Current youth policy and parenting advice teeter between high-anxiety child protection and high-anger child punishment. It would appear that children are fragilely innocent until the moment they step over some line, at which point they become instantly, irredeemably wicked.
~ Judith Levine
The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.
~ Julia Gillard
But by the way, who is the murderer? The one who does not know my relatives, or myself, as I erect my new life like a fragile mausoleum where their shadowy figure is integrated, like a corpse, at the source of my wandering?
~ Julia Kristeva
You don't understand how fragile life is. You don't realize that the thread breaks between one moment and the next.
~ Julia Quinn
I like to build houses out of playing cards.
~ Julia Quinn
My favourite actor in the world is Richard Burton. I just think he just had everything. I probably couldn't play him, because he's got this insane quality that's like a wild animal and still sort of frail, fragile. But he's my idol.
~ Claes Bang
I haven't gone completely insane, but it might happen soon.
~ Megan Fox
I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
~ Billie Joe Armstrong
We live in a much more interconnected world now, and that means that it's more fragile than we realize.
~ Paul Romer
It made her question why human beings always appeared to be coming along so nicely as a whole when the bottom would fall out once again and they began collecting ears and filings from each other's heads.
~ Eve Babitz
Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman: it is, at once, the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.
~ Fanny Burney
Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.
~ Felix Frankfurter
Happiness is fragile precisely because it is not repeatable; opportunities for it are rare and random, like gold threads in the world's fabric. They ought to be seized.
~ Frédéric Gros
But I'm afraid to sleep!" whispered Trista. "What if I fall to pieces before I wake up? What if tomorrow morning I'm just a pile of leaves and sticks tucked under a blanket? What if this is the last time I've got left, and I waste it all being asleep, then wake up dead?
~ Frances Hardinge
Perhaps the world has always been like this, Mosca thought as she pushed her way through the crowd. Like a broken honeypot that looks whole, but just holds together because the shards are resting in place and are glued together with honey. You just need to prod it a bit, and it all starts oozing apart.
~ Frances Hardinge
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
But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor. She will look in at me with her thin arms extended, offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light.
~ Billy Collins
Tamaki = "If not spoiled constantly, he'll die" type.
~ Bisco Hatori
The world glitters in the distance... but the closer I get the more I see that everyone is fragile and clumsy... and trying their hardest.
~ Bisco Hatori
A loose feather can't be put back...but a broken wing can sometimes heal.
~ Bob Graham
Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
~ bovee christian nestell xi
The good is fragile.
~ Harlan Coben
The harder you push at an unreliable memory, the less reliable it
~ Harry Bingham