Fragile Quotes - Page 11

• You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.

  Elia Kazan

  Self Worth, Ideas, Actors

  Elia Kazan, Jeff Young (1999). “Kazan: the master director discusses his films : interviews with Elia Kazan”, Newmarket Pr

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• I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.

  Ted Cruz

  Children, Taken, Blessing

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• The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,000 and should be phased out slowly for those making more than that. Raising taxes on anyone now, when the economic recovery is so fragile, would be a mistake.

  Mark Zandi

  Mistake, Recovery, Cutting

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• I like the idea that within the structure of the song, some kind of built-in improvisation keeps them fragile and in their moment, so that I'm not projecting so much, so that my perception of the song doesn't interfere with what its real body is. Sometimes it's like telling a story that I heard in passing, and I don't want it to become completely mine.

  Ryan Adams

  Song, Real, Ideas

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• The weapons that were once outside sharpening themselves on war are now indoors there, in the fortress, fragile in glass cases; Why is it (I'm thinking of the careful moulding round the stonework archways) that in this time, such elaborate defences keep things that are no longer (much) worth defending?

  Margaret Atwood

  War, Thinking, Glasses

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “Selected Poems: 1965-1975”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You may hear people say that submarines have done away with the battleship, and that aircraft have annulled the mastery of the sea. That is what our pessimists say. But do you imagine that the clumsy submarine or the fragile aeroplane is really the last word of science?

  John Buchan

  Sea, People, Mastery

  John Buchan (2016). “SIR EDWARD LEITHEN Complete Collection – 6 Titles in One Premium Edition (Mystery & Thriller Series): The Power-House, John Macnab, The Dancing Floor, The Gap in the Curtain, Sick Heart River & Sing a Song of Sixpence”, p.30, e-artnow

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• Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence, through what we do, say... how we enjoy ourselves... Yet it is an illusion that is constantly being undermined by change and death.

  Victoria Finlay

  Space, Trying, Next

  Victoria Finlay (2006). “Jewels: A Secret History”, p.343, Ballantine Books

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• There was an assumption that aerial bombing of civilians in World War II would cause fragile, working-class people to basically have nervous breakdowns and it would paralyze the state. That was the logic of aerial bombing. In fact, it doesn't happen at all, but the logic behind aerial bombing has never stopped, even though it never demoralizes, terrorizes, or paralyzes a population.

  Rebecca Solnit

  War, Class, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Thirdly, the explorationists are willing to only move equipment during the winter, which means they'll be on ice roads, and remove the equipment as the ice begins to melt, so that the fragile tundra is protected.

  George W. Bush

  Moving, Humor, Mean

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• I find at moments I'm as fragile as glass.

  Anne Rice

  Glasses, Moments

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.3956, Ballantine Books

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• In a fragile environment, we need to be aware of ourselves as members of a uniquely powerful species living among other species who are quite as interesting as we are but vulnerable to us because we are cleverer in more destructive ways.

  Andrew Motion

  Powerful, Interesting, Needs

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• artists try to say things that can't be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling; a taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.

  Alan Alda

  Sweet, Artist, Frustration

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• You are alive tonight for a reason. You were created to love and to be loved. You were not meant to be alone. You are not alone. You were meant to do life with other people. You need people who know you. You need to know people. Your voice matters. We are certainly strong. But we are also certainly fragile.

  Jamie Tworkowski

  Strong, Voice, People

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• We must act now and wake up to our moral obligations. The poor and vulnerable are members of God's family and are the most severely affected by droughts, high temperatures, the flooding of coastal cities, and more severe and unpredictable weather events resulting from climate change. We, who should have been responsible stewards preserving our vulnerable, fragile planet home, have been wantonly wasteful through our reckless consumerism, devouring irreplaceable natural resources.

  Desmond Tutu

  Home, Should Have, Cities

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• We need one another. There's no reason to judge. People are more fragile than you could possibly imagine.

  Jamie Tworkowski

  People, Judging, Needs

  Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.13, Penguin

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• I think damage to the eye or damage to the teeth is one of the most universally cringing things you can do in a movie and these are very fragile sounds.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Eye, Thinking, Sound

  Source: collider.com

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• I like characters that are fragile and a little bit on the edge .

  Zach Galifianakis

  Character, Littles, Bits

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• I believe that if you are talking about economic stress, the systems of the world are very fragile, and if we put our hope and trust in the systems that men have created, they will guarantee failure.

  Myles Munroe

  Stress, Believe, Men

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• Success is unpredictable and fragile.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Unpredictable

  Interview with Alain Elkann, alainelkanninterviews.com. October 8, 2014.

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  The view of earth is absolutely spectacular, and the feeling of looking back and seeing your planet as a planet is just an amazing feeling. It's a totally different perspective, and it makes you appreciate, actually, how fragile our existence is.

  Sally Ride

  Views, Appreciate, Perspective

  "Astronaut Hall of Fame". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 2006.

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• It's weird making a drawing of painting. I start to realize that charcoal is this incredibly fragile material. I'm making images of paintings out of dust.

  Robert Longo

  Drawing, Dust, Painting

  Interview with Keanu Reeves, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2014.

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• The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years. People know it's not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn't always happen.

  Agnes Varda

  Strong, Couple, Years

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.

  Agnes Varda

  People, Trying, Stories

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• You realize that life is short and fragile; and when you are facing walls of water, you understand your own mortality can change and how quickly things could change.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Wall, Life Is Short

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• I believe seeing earth a small blue ball in the vast dark ocean of space, gives you a new perspective on life and what is important. You can see how small we are as compared to the universe and how fragile our lives are.

  Anousheh Ansari

  Believe, Ocean, Dark

  Source: scienceblog.com

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