Quotes About Brittleness

Elastic, hard, and brittle: glass presents properties that do not always seem compatible and yield unpleasant surprises.

Human beings are weak.

The infirmity of his age.

Glass & peace alike betray proof of fragility under repeated blows.

Tough, yet brittle. That's the thing about being really hard. When you do break, you shatter.

Resilience is a measure of a system's ability to survive and persist within a variable environment. The opposite of resilience is brittleness or rigidity.

You make yourself too hard, you make yourself brittle too. Crack once, crack all to pieces.

Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.

His ribs were as visible as hands around a cup.

They die so easily, he boasts. It is like sprinkling salt onto the backs of slugs.

Yet they also had loved life. They had loved it the more, John would tell her, because it was fugitive; they had loved it for the sake of the surprise, the danger, the brittleness of the moment.

The colour, which resembled some of the bands in the meteor's strange spectrum, was almost impossible to describe; and it was only by analogy that they called it colour at all. Its texture was glossy, and upon tapping it appeared to promise both brittleness and hollowness.

That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.

Despite all her strengths, there was a certain brittleness to her. Sometimes she retreated into her keep. Sometimes she ran away. But she did not forgive and she did not forget.

the kind of people who can't bend without breaking

The frailty of everything revealed at last.

She was so full of holes now, she was like a Swiss cheese.

There was a brittleness in her tone, and Baphen was uncomfortably reminded that some prophecies are fulfilled by the very actions meant to prevent them.

For the editors of the Standard, Buchanan not only represented a neo-isolationist populist insurgency but also threw into relief the brittleness, fragility, and cowardice of the Republican establishment.