Quotes About Brittle

All my life, I've been the kind of person who could shatter easily.

Friable isn't often used of food, yet its meaning lends itself perfectly to pastry and crumbly biscuits.

Everything is fragile; everything is breaking.

La principale differenza tra una cosa che potrebbe rompersi e una cosa che non può in alcun modo rompersi è che quando una cosa che non può in alcun modo rompersi si rompe, di solito risulta impossibile da riparare.

the dead leaves blowing about his legs like brittle, papery demons sucked dry of all power, impuissant and doomed to crumble.

Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.

Fragility comes in many forms

I built myself a house of glass:It took me years to make it:And I was proud. But now, alas!Would God someone would break it.

him.You are good, O God, and You are faithful. Tenderize and soften our Lenten hearts, we pray, lest they grow brittle and break.

ragged piece of thin glass jutted out of the socket, all that was left of the

With humans... Leo felt helpless. They broke way too easily.

He had china arms and china legs, china paws and a china head, a china torso and a china nose.

Their smiles were cracking. Glass is brittle.

Enthusiasm is as brittle as crystal, but Common Sense is durable as brass.

To Ryuji the smile seemed as brittle as fine glass crystal and very dangerous

This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear.

They moved carefully, as though their bodies were brittle glasses – glasses without bottom – waiting to be shattered

He's such a cobweb, a pinch would annihilate him.

According to Klein, these common strategies are brittle and will break down under stress—a downturn in their career, bouts of depression, wounds to their ego. The envy they experienced in their earliest years remains continually latent and ready to be directed at others. They are literally looking for people to envy so they can reexperience the primal emotion.

He felt brittle, and ravenous.

or especially fragile.

A tall, thin, gaunt, cadaverous man, who moved like he might collapse at any moment, like a broken stepladder.

One eggshell life. Would

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.