Fragile Quotes - Page 4

• A coach has to worry not so much about creating motivation, esprit de corps, as about destroying it. The true competitor has it; he wouldn't be a star if he didn't. So you have to mold all these egos together and make sure in your selection of people that you don't destroy the feeling of togetherness or morale, because it is a fragile thing.

  Dick Motta

  Sports, Stars, Motivation

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• We long to find someone who has been where we've been, who shares our fragile places, who sees our sunsets with the same shades of blue. Soul mates. They somehow validate the depth of our experiences.

  Beth Moore

  Sunset, Blue, Long

  Beth Moore (2004). “Things Pondered”, p.2, B&H Publishing Group

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• Female genital mutilation targets little girls, baby girls - fragile angels who are helpless, who cannot fight back. It's a crime against a child, a crime against humanity. It's abuse. It's absolutely criminal and we have to stop it.

  Waris Dirie

  Girl, Baby, Children

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• As an artist you have to fight and survive the wilderness to keep your creative freedom. Creativity is very fragile.

  Karel Appel

  Creativity, Fighting, Artist

  "Karel Appel: The complete sculptures, 1936-1990". Book by Karel Appel, 1990.

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• Until we reflect basic kindness in everything we do, our political gestures will be fleeting and fragile. Simple kindness may be the most vital key to the riddle of how human beings can live with each other in peace...and care properly for this planet we all share.

  Bo Lozoff

  Kindness, Simple, Keys

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• Man is incomprehensible without Nature and Nature is incomprehensible apart from man. For the delicate loveliness of the flower is as much in the human eye as in its own fragile petals and in the splendor of the heavens as much in the imagination that kindles at the touch of their glory as in the shining of countless worlds.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Nature, Flower, Eye

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• The article of justification is fragile. Not in itself, of course, but in us. I know how quickly a person can forfeit the joy of the Gospel.

  Martin Luther

  Joy, Forfeit, Justification

  Martin Luther (1972). “A Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians”, p.33, CCEL

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• So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.

  Alain de Botton

  Ego, Ignored, Ache

  Twitter post from Sep 17, 2013

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• See yourself as a small child, fragile and vulnerable, and breathe in. Smile with love to this small child within yourself, and breathe out.

  Barbara Ann Kipfer

  Children, Vulnerable, Breathe

  Barbara Ann Kipfer (2013). “Self-Meditation: 3,299 Tips, Quotes, Reminders, and Wake-Up Calls for Peace and Serenity”, p.332, Workman Publishing

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• The men and women, the weapons, the deerhunt all make a huge and fragile danger in John Bolger's novel The Hunters. There is care and harm in this book and all written with felicitous and steady grace.

  Ron Carlson

  Book, Men, Grace

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• We have to get to the Self beyond its physical and mental instrumentalities to realize we are not fragile mortal beings; there is an unbroken link between ourselves and the Beloved Mother of the Universe, the Divine Consciousness flowing through and permeating Infinity.

  Daya Mata

  Mother, Self, Soul

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• No, no, it's not all random, if it really was all random, the universe would abandon us completely. and the universe doesn't. it takes care of its most fragile creations in ways we can't see. like with parents who adore you blindly. and a big sister who feels guilty for being human over you. and a little gravelly-voiced kid whose friends have left him over you. and even a pink-haired girl who carries your picture in her wallet. maybe it is a lottery, but the universe makes it all even out in the end. the universe takes care of all its birds.

  R. J. Palacio

  Girl, Kids, Bird

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• How beautiful it is to learn that Grace isn't fragile, and that in the family of God we can fail and not be a failure.

  Gloria Gaither

  Beautiful, Grace, Failing

  Gloria Gaither (1997). “Because He Lives: The Stories and Inspiration Behind the Songs of Bill and Gloria Gaither”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark.

  Ovid

  Ocean, Sea, Ships

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• Now it is you who everyone presumes is so fragile. Wounded. Scarred. Maybe they're right. Perhaps you are. A nursery rhyme comes into your head, and, like an egg, you allow yourself to topple onto your side, your legs still pulled hard against your torso. You lie like that a long while, watching the chrome shell of the tape measure sparkle until the sun moves.

  Chris Bohjalian

  Lying, Moving, Your Side

  Chris Bohjalian (2011). “The Night Strangers”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• It is human nature to look away from illness. We don't enjoy a reminder of our own fragile mortality. That's why writing on the Internet has become a lifesaver for me. My ability to think and write have not been affected. And on the Web, my real voice finds expression.

  Roger Ebert

  Real, Writing, Thinking

  "Remaking my voice". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2011.

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• Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a return to traditional proportionate taxation? ... Today in our country the tax collector's share is 37 cents of every dollar earned. Freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Dollars, Taxation

  Ronald Reagan (1981). “Rendezvous with destiny”, Osmond Pub Co

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• The paradox of friendship is that it is both the strongest thing in the world and the most fragile. Wild horses cannot separate friends, but whining words can. A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Friendship, Horse, Sacrifice

  Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”

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• Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.

  Warren Christopher

  Country, Hymns, Two

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• Our spirit is back, but we haven't reinstitutionalized it. We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom - freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. And freedom is special and rare. It's fragile; it needs production [protection].

  Ronald Reagan

  Jobs, America, Freedom Of Speech

  Ronald Reagan's Farewell Address to the Nation, www.reaganlibrary.gov. January 11, 1989.

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• It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing Am I any good Will I ever work again' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.

  Jacqueline McKenzie

  Self, Doubt, Growing

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• Self confidence for me is a fragile fleece.

  Sylvia Kristel

  Self Confidence, Self, Fleece

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The sturdiest virtue seems fragile.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Virtue, Seems

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• Life is more fragile and precious than I can comprehend, but believe me, I'm trying.

  John O'Callaghan

  Believe, Trying, Life Is

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• We who choose to surround ourselves
  with lives even more temporary than our
  own, live within a fragile circle;
  easily and often breached.
  Unable to accept its awful gaps,
  we would still live no other way.
  We cherish memory as the only
  certain immortality, never fully
  understanding the necessary plan.

  Irving Townsend

  Memories, Circles, Understanding

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