Quotes About Fragile

One of the advantages of a life much longer than average was that you saw how fragile the future was. Men said things like peace in our time or an empire that will last a thousand years, and less than half a lifetime later no one even remembered who they were, let alone what they had said or where the mob had buried their ashes. What changed history were smaller things. Often a few strokes of the pen would do the trick.

Ä°tibar k?r?lgan bir ÅŸeydir; bir ince çatlak onu paramparça eder.

He knew that even his own father's authority was fragile and restricted—a king did not possess true freedom but was imprisoned by his position.

May there only be peaceful and cheerful Earth Days to come for our beautiful Spaceship Earth as it continues to spin and circle in frigid space with its warm and fragile cargo of animate life.

Whenever I feel sad or a little fragile, I invoke their presence (the ancestors) for support, and they never fail to be there.

The thing I like most in my kitchen is my marble counters. Everybody said not to use marble because it's fragile, it stains, it cracks, and it doesn't remain beautiful. But I love marble.

Promises are fragile things. You blink, and they turn into lies.

What a world. People once made glass sculptures of decay, and they put these sculptures in museums. How strange and beautiful human beings are. And how fragile.

What a world, Sadie thought. People once made glass sculptures of decay, and they put these sculptures in museums. How strange and beautiful human beings are. And how fragile.

When I sleepwalk into your room, and pick you up, and hold you up in the moonlight, you cling to me hard, as if clinging could save us. I think you think I will never die, I think I exude to you the permanence of smoke or stars, even as my broken arms heal themselves around you.

Very gently. Like there are eggshells on your pedals, and you don't want to break them. That's how you drive in the rain.

In the midst of great anxiety and great sadness, it takes an honorable man to nourish the goodness around him, small and fragile as it may seem.

Mis señores, yo no estoy hecho de piedra. Sólo soy un hombre y un hombre es el más frágil de los monumentos

They played at hearts as other children might play at ball; only, as it was really their two hearts that they flung to and fro, they had to be very, very handy to catch them, each time, without hurting them.

However, we do not recommend relying too heavily on volatile variables for visibility; code that relies on volatile variables for visibility of arbitrary state is more fragile and harder to understand than code that uses locking.

They want you to see them as fragile. By so doing, they don't have to put themselves back together. Don't

Souls were dangerous things to carry straight Through all the spilt saltpetre of the world.

The house is eaten by cold. We hear its bones crack in the jaws of sub-zero.

Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.

The person you loved, held, and cared for, and were most intimate with, is now nothing but a fragile set of memories that will vanish into the mists of the future.

For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away.

Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment. She

una persona es, entre todo lo demás, una cosa material, que se rompe fácilmente pero que no es fácil recomponer.

Ogni persona è, tra le altre cose, un oggetto facile da rompere e difficile da riparare.