Quotes About Fragility

We have a country that is in a very delicate situation.

In space, everything is dependent on everything else and one hiccup causes a lot of ripple effects.

When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.

We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to leave this world.

she looked like a porcelain doll. A very pissed off and evil porcelain doll.

In my chest, my own heart was breaking. On my cheek, the lily reminded me who I was.

inconsequential M-3 Stuart caused one American general to muse that "the only way to hurt a Kraut with a 37mm is to catch him and give him an enema with it" the half-track mounted with a 75mm gun was already known as a "Purple Heart box." American tanks were so flammable they were dubbed Ronsons, after a popular cigarette lighter advertised with the slogan "They light every time.

But it's all a diversion. A card-house waiting to topple.

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

We built a perfect little cottage out of sand with the help of Farley's tin and the rusting bucket, and some lichen we peeled from rocks for window-box flowers. We left it there all day, and when the tide came up, the waves refused to disturb it, only lapping away at the foundation enough to cement it more firmly to the beach.

And keep one thing in mind-tanks and guns can break my bones, but emails can be deleted.

Relationships sometimes break like a falling vase into fifty pieces. And when you glue the vase back together, you realize it has lost the luster and pristine appearance that will never return. Now you have two choices. Keep it as it is or throw it away.

I could die. That was obviously an option all along—and I knew it—but in that moment, in that gloomy room, for some unknown reason … it finally sunk in. Like, really sunk in. And it sunk in hard. I felt the floor tip under me. I don't mean that in a fancy-pants, writing way. I mean it felt like the floor actually tipped under my feet—severely—and then dropped away.

Specialists are the animals that remind us what an incredible fluke it is that our world exists at all; that the temperature is what it is, that the air we breathe is 21 percent oxygen. They remind us how much damage even the smallest changes to that system can cause and they show us how badly we're screwing things up.

The front door had been secure at some point in time, I suppose, but now it usually hung ajar by a few inches, the gap?toothed grin of a dirty old man.

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. —G. K. CHESTERTON T

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. —G. K. CHESTERTON

So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long, long sleep.

The daisy's for simplicity and unaffected air.

Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r,Thou's met me in an evil hour;For I maun crush amang the stoureThy slender stem:To spare thee now is past my pow'r,Thou bonie gem.

But, oh! fell death's untimely frost,That nipt my flower sae early.

Now go and brag of thy present happiness, whosoever thou art, brag of thy temperature, of thy good parts, insult, triumph, and boast; thou seest in what a brittle state thou art, how soon thou mayst be dejected, how many several ways, by bad diet, bad air, a small loss, a little sorrow or discontent, an ague, &c.; how many sudden accidents may procure thy ruin, what a small tenure of happiness thou hast in this life, how weak and silly a creature thou art.

I say, why start from nothing if you can start with everything? We've already got a civilization.' 'No. We haven't. We're just living on the edge of someone else's, like fleas on a dog's back. If the dog drowns, the fleas drown, too.