Fragile Things Quotes

• Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

  Chapman Cohen

  Spiritual, Religious, Atheist

  "An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism" by Gordon Stein, Prometheus Books, (p. 258), 1980.

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• There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

  Neil Gaiman

  Love, Dream, Heart

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Selections from Fragile Things, Volume One: 4 Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

  Alan Rudolph

  Identity, Moments, Found

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

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• Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.

  Vanessa Paradis

  Love Is, Strongest, Fragile

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

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• Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.

  Sam Shepard

  Scare Tactics, Democracy, May

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• True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

  James Broughton

  Strength, Delicacy, Fragile

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• Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would happen if she let it go-or got careless and crushed it.

  Joe Hill

  Depression, Butterfly, Hands

  Joe Hill (2013). “NOS4R2”, p.188, Hachette UK

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• I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.

  Neil Gaiman

  Thinking, Debt, Moral

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble.

  Anais Nin

  Hands, Broke, Keepers

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• Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

  Jenny Shipley

  Courage, Secure, Fragile

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• Confidence is a very fragile thing.

  Joe Montana

  Confidence, Football, Nfl

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

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• Trust is a fragile thing. Once earned, it affords us tremendous freedom. But once trust is lost, it can be impossible to recover. Of course the truth is, we never know who we can trust. Those we're closest to can betray us, and total strangers can come to our rescue. In the end, most people decide to trust only themselves. It really is the simplest way to keep from getting burned.

  Mary Alice

  Life, Happy, People

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• Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, People, Presidential

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.7, Humanix Books

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• There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out between lovers and enemies, strangers and friends. But all are fragile things made of just twenty-six letters arranged and re-arranged to form tales and imaginings which will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul.

  Neil Gaiman

  Moving, Night, Strangers And Friends

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• Reality is a fragile thing.

  Cornelia Funke

  Reality, Fragile

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• I stare at her collarbone that's framed with lace, the hollow of her throat, her shoulders that rise with each rise with the weight of her next breath. We're fragile things. Our bones show through our skin. What would any god want with us?

  Lauren DeStefano

  Skins, Weight, Want

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Apr 15, 2013

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• People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Anger, Fighting, Names

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• Glad it was you and not me," Shane said, and offered Myrin a hand up. "Any brain damage?" "Since the bullet actually passed through his brain, then yes, idiot boy, there's certainly brain damage," Oliver said. "It will pass. His brain's the least fragile thing about him." "You say the nicest things," Myrin said. He was slurring his words, and he threw an arm around Oliver's neck. "Marry me.

  Rachel Caine

  Boys, Hands Up, Brain

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• Masculine pride is an exceedingly precious and fragile thing

  Loretta Chase

  Pride, Masculine, Fragile

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• Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing.

  Elizabeth Loftus

  Memories, Liberty, Fragile

  "Memory's Future". Interview with William Calvin, www.psychologytoday.com. March 1, 2001.

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• 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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• I'm always somehow drawn to that sense of how fragile things are and how a garden means so differently depending upon whose language you happen to be in or whose century you happen to be in.

  Martha Ronk

  Mean, Garden, Language

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it.

  Marian Engel

  Drinking, House, Alcohol

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• Consumer confidence in an industry can be a very fragile thing. It only takes a few builders who promise but don't deliver, who cheat rather than perform, who delay until the warranty expires rather than repair, to damage the reputation of an entire industry.

  Virginia Knauer

  Promise, Damage, Delay

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• The framers knew that liberty is a fragile thing, and so should we.

  William J. Brennan

  Liberty, Should, Framers

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