Quotes About Fragile

From all that experience, Icelanders took away the conclusion: This is not a country in which we can enjoy the luxury of experimenting. We live in a fragile land; we know that our ways will allow at least some of us to survive; don't ask us to change.

2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't.

Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.

She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.

I just stood there looking from one distorted face to another, listening to this babble of enraged squabbling as the members of the Walls family gave vent to all their years of hurt and anger, each unloading his or her own accumulated grievances and blaming the others for allowing the most fragile one of us to break into pieces.

And yet I am troubled; it would take so little to make the record stop: a broken spring, the whim of Cousin Adolphe. How strange it is, how moving, that this hardness should be so fragile. Nothing can interrupt it yet all can break it.

I've dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest.

I'm easy to pick on because I'm a string bean.

I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.

The economy is a very sensitive organism.

Human life is fragile, and the threat posed to individuals in politics cannot be overlooked.

I'm a sensitive, sensitive person. Overly sensitive. Extremely emotional.

Human attention, in the best of circumstances, is a fluid but fragile entity. Beyond a certain threshold, the more that is asked of it, the less well it performs. When this happens in a psychological experiment, it is interesting. When it happens in traffic, it can be fatal.

The folly of humankind is that it believes it is impervious to decay

Several glasses of cactus cider went crashing to the floor and shattered around their talons.

The democracy of riot squads, corrupt politicians, magnate-controlled newspapers and the surveillance state looks as phony and fragile as East Germany did thirty years ago.

Ah, oui, pauvre papillon. C'est un de mes prisonniers

More than ever knowing in his fragile bones that it was the duty of men who aspired to the condition of humanity to protect children and kill for them if necessary.

She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.

He's been sent by the devil to destabilize something that was already fragile. How could I fall in love so quickly with someone I don't even know?

A family is fragile. It is destroyed by this kind of violence. The things a child needs - really needs - must be actively, attentively sought. Listening. Patience. Deep time.

Je suis comme un pont fragile, reliant à travers l'infini le passé et le présent. Je serre la main maternelle. Je ne peux pas la laisser échapper, car sans moi ma mère serait seule.

People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

It [ballet] projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision.