Quotes About Fragile

And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thought for the wonder of later years, and tell of happenings that are gone clean away, and be a voice for us out of the dark of time, and save many a fragile thing from the pounding of heavy ages; or carry to us, over the rolling centuries, even a song from lips long dead on forgotten hills.

Masculine pride is an exceedingly precious and fragile thing

I once told Wendell that Mike, my colleague, had said a while back that when we feel fragile, we're like raw eggs—we crack open and splatter if dropped. But when we develop more resilience, we're like hard-boiled eggs—we might get dinged up if dropped, but we won't crack completely and spill all over the place.

We're all so damned fragile.

Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites.

True love is a tiny pearl, easily imagined and easily lost.

Superstition prevails, fear that the fragile unfinished something will shatter, vanish, revert to the nothing from which it was made.

Before Ryan's murder, she'd trusted the criminal justice system wholeheartedly. But that was before she'd almost lost everything she cherished. She couldn't face another attack on her integrity and professionalism without imperiling the fragile sanity she clung to like a life preserver

You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience.

There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.

We are nothing here but just candles burning in the wind.

In a way, a man's life depended on the china horse. Or at least on the breaking of the china horse.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

He's throwing everything he can into the air on the chance that something might take flight. And we're the smallest, weakest bird.

The Post Office is very careful nowadays. When they get a package marked "Fragile," they throw it underhand.

Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing.

Confidence is a very fragile thing.

The Australian economy is resilient, but business and consumer confidence is fragile.

Self confidence for me is a fragile fleece.

Coppi? Is he the one we followed in the Giro del Piemonte? The guy who is as skinny as an asparagus? He doesn't lack courage, I'll give you that, but I think he's kind of fragile.

He is fragile, like a prince of ice, of glass.

Perhaps memory is like a bucket; if you want to cram into it more fruit than it will hold, the fruit is crushed.

people don't realize that you have to take care of snow domes and keep them clean and filled with water or they'll dry out

Few things were as incalculable as men who were at once stupid and thin-skinned.