Quotes About Fragile

Because I know that everything we have is balanced on such a delicate web of incidence and coincidence.

Anything out of control is always a potential threat, and always calls up moral, legal, and aesthetic powers to discipline it. The signs of the subordinate out of control terrify the forces of order (whether moral, legal, or aesthetic), for they constitute a constant reminder of both how fragile social control is and how it is resented; they demonstrate how escaping social control, even momentarily, produces a sense of freedom.

Like everything else in Ike's life, it was barely hanging together and lucky to be running.

It's a fragile system, this trusting of lives to twelve average, ordinary people who do not understand the law and are intimidated by the process.

could almost taste the finiteness of life and thus its preciousness. We take it for granted, but it is fragile, precarious, uncertain, able to cease at any instant without notice. I was reminded of what should be obvious but too often is not, that each day, each hour and minute, is worth cherishing.

Stop and consider! life is but a day; A fragile dewdrop on its perilous way From a tree's summit; a poor Indian's sleep While his boat hastens to the monstrous steep Of Montmorenci. Why so sad a moan? Life is the rose's hope while yet unblown; The reading of an ever-changing tale; The light uplifting of a maiden's veil; A pigeon tumbling in clear summer air; A laughing schoolboy, without grief or care, Riding the springy branches of an elm.

(He was) a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic.

Sometimes I'm fragile, sometimes too emotional, but I'm putting everything I can on my side to be a happy person.

I'm easily destroyed and I operate on emotional levels.

That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs.

If they think that an artist can destroy their faith, then their faith is rather fragile.

The worst thing about a girl with a broken heart is that she hands out pieces to anyone who comes her way.

S(he's) br(ok)en

It is a mistake. I just want to protect it from being broken.

Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

In my opinion some dudes are fragile and the thought of being hurt becomes too real.

A girl once told me to be careful when trying to fix a broken person...for you may cut yourself on their shattered pieces!!

Be careful; the ones that make you smile are the same ones that can shatter your heart.

Your heart isn't plastic, and it isn't a toy, but if you want it to be played with and broken give it to a girl.

Strong walls can crack, just like the hardest heart can break, Cracks are just reminders that you can fall apart no matter how strong you are.

Your heart isn't plastic.. and it isn't a toy... but if you want it broken, give it to a boy!

Life is precious, life is hard... But if you let go everything will fall apart.

narcissistic drama-seeker who covered a fragile ego with a bullying impulse and, this time, took American democracy to the brink.

This person is now lost to her for ever. She is someone adrift in her life, who doesn't recognise it. She is unmoored, at a loss. She is someone who weeps if she cannot find a shoe or overboils the soup or trips over a pot. Small things undo her. Nothing is certain any more.