Quotes About Fragile

It's hard to blow an ugly bubble.

The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.

War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.

Our lives are like a candle in the wind.

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is.

How fragile life was, she thought, how unpredictable. We flatter ourselves, thinking we are actors on a stage, geniuses who write our own plays, extemporize our words, and shift major plot lines and the most subtle of nuances at our every whim. Perhaps wooden Bunraku puppets feel the same way. They do not notice the puppeteers who guide their every move.

Above the front door the fanlight glowed blue, delicate as wing-bones.

Sick with the impossibility of it all, with the reality of how small a person is. How at any second you can get struck down by a bullet or a tree; how a person can look so very tiny against the world, how each of us is nothing more than a speck

Did I imagine that this was our pattern for all time? That we could grow old together, accusing and forgiving? Back then, I dind't know what forever looked like. Maybe I don't even know now. But that night in Piney Woods, I believed that our marriage was a fine-spun tapestry, fragile but fixable. We tore it often and mended it, always with a silken thread, lovely but sure to give way.

I believed that our marriage was a fine-spun tapestry, fragile but fixable. We tore it often and mended it, always with a silken thread, lovely but sure to give way.

The patience of the spider's web is not disturbed by dew.

The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.

The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council.

During my childhood, I had a long, dangerous spell of illness, and my health has always been delicate.

Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.

What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day.

That undamaged part of her was so small, it was only good for one night.

And though later he came pretending friendship, the alliance with man would ever be but fragile, for the fear he'd struck into their hearts was too deep to be dislodged.

Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds.

He always had the sense that they were on borrowed time.

My heart is very much alive and in your hands. Do your best not to destroy it. You are very lucky it isn't it my hands... The only thing I know to do with hearts is incinerate them! Ouch!

She's out of her depth, pretty as porcelain and a lot more fragile.

Trust is like glass. You think you can see through it, that you know what's on the other side of it. You pretend you know your partner and that he knows you. But it's all an illusion. One day you bump against it and it cracks and you cut yourself and you bleed.