Quotes About Fragile

The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days.

In terms of long-term durable storage, the human mind, paradoxically, is pretty good, but it's very fragile.

Las reglas de sentido común del «mundo real» son una frágil colección de ilusiones reforzadas por la sociedad.

If you stress-test the boundaries and experiment with the "impossibles," you'll quickly discover that most limitations are a fragile collection of socially reinforced rules you can choose to break at any time.

Life has always poppies in her hands.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn.

Erizo El Erizo es el sol del mar, centrifugo y anaranjado, lleno de puas como llamas, hecho de huevos y de yodo. El Erizo es como el mundo: redondo, fragil, escondido: humedo, secreto, y hostil: el Erizo es como el amor.

There are three principles to remember if you are to teach a human being anything, and they are consistency, consistency, consistency.They are such fragile creatures to begin with, with poor eyes, poorer hearing, and no sense of smell left to speak of, it's no wonder they are made of fear. Some centuries ago they moved inside and with that move went nine-tenths of their intuition. It is almost unmerciful to make them live so long when they spend their lives in so much pain.

She was like a windflower trembling on its slender stem, so fragile you feel it can't possibly survive the blasts that shake it, though it survives them all.

A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.

Chad seemed both venomous and insecure, a flammable combination.

I wish nights like this weren't so fragile and slippery and impossible to nail down for study in one's leisure. But the really great nights pass through you like whispers or shadows. They shimmer, but don't adhere.

Trust is extremely fragile, and although building it can take extensive amounts of time over the course of many personal interactions, it can be destroyed (withdrawn) within seconds.

Fraj-ile, I say, pronouncing it the way she does - as if it might be a popular tourist destination in the Pacific, beautiful Fraj Isle, with its white sandy beaches and shark-filled coves.

Las ideas creativas son como un capullo delicado: hay que mimarlas para que florezcan.

consequence of the global economic misery from the pandemic of 2020 could be greater prevalence of fragile and failed states, which would create new security challenges that, at some point, would reach beyond their borders. Yet governments would be hampered in responding to domestic and international needs, whether around security or health or energy and climate, by the huge debt and fiscal armor they have assumed in battling to preserve their economies.

why won't they leave me alone? don't they realize I have a tinder heart and a paper body and that any spark will turn me straight to ash?

It's mighty hard right now to think of anything that's precious that isn't endangered.

Curious how these early linguistic abilities are so fragile, how unthinkingly and easily the brain lets them go.

A dream is not a very safe thing to be near... I know; I had one once. It's like a loaded pistol with a hair trigger: if it stays alive long enough, somebody is going to be hurt. But if it's a good dream, it's worth it.

I am tired of running of having to carry my life like it was a basket of eggs...

Beneath the quilt she is no more than a bundle of rotten sticks

It was such an easy thing, death. He saw that now: It just happened. You screwed up by a fraction and there it was, something chill and odorless, ballooning out from the four stupid corners of the room, your mother's Barrytown living room.

Life itself is a rickety building