Fragile Quotes - Page 25

• There is nothing more fragile than civilization.

  Havelock Ellis

  Civilization

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• Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating.

  Ronald Reagan

  Flower, Government, Democracy

  Address to British Parliament, delivered 8 June 1982, Royal Gallery at the Palace of Westminster, London

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• Robin [Williams] was a world treasure. As we mourn his tragic death, we must remember him for the great waves of laughter that he was able to illicit from us, how his humor and insights - though they came from a place of pain and uncertainty - connected us and reminded us of how flawed and fragile...how human we are. How we are capable of moments of inspired transcendence and others of unspeakable despair.

  Glenn Close

  Leadership, Wisdom, Pain

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• We are all vulnerable, and we will all, at some point in our lives... fall. We will all fall. We must carry this in our hearts... that what we have is special. That it can be taken from us, and when it is taken from us, we will be tested. We will be tested to our very souls. We will now all be tested. It is these times, it is this pain, that allows us to look inside ourselves.

  Eric Taylor

  Pain, Fall, Taken

  "Fictional character: Eric Taylor". "Friday Night Lights" (Pilot), www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Computer mediation seems to bathe action in a more conditional light: perhaps it happened; perhaps it didn't. Without the layeredrichness of direct sensory engagement, the symbolic medium seems thin, flat, and fragile.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Reality, Light, Engagement

  Shoshana Zuboff (1988). “In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power”, New York : Basic Books

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• If the technology cannot shoulder the entire burden of strategic change, it nevertheless can set into motion a series of dynamicsthat present an important challenge to imperative control and the industrial division of labor. The more blurred the distinction between what workers know and what managers know, the more fragile and pointless any traditional relationships of domination and subordination between them will become.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Technology, Division Of Labor, Challenges

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• You do become more aware of your mortality as you get older. When you're little, you jump on any wild horse. Then you get a little bit older and realize how fragile life is, and you're more careful.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Horse, Littles, Realizing

  "Jennifer Lawrence Was Afraid "Katniss Would Overwhelm" Other Work" by Lauren Turner, www.popsugar.com. September 13, 2012.

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• Parents ought to feel more comfortable about the care of their children than some experts would seem to permit. If children were so fragile and parenting so difficult to learn, where would we all be as adults?

  Sandra Scarr

  Children, Parent, Experts

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• The future of our fragile, beautiful planet home is in our hands. As God's family, we are stewards of God's creation. We can be wantonly irresponsible, or we can be caring and compassionate. God says, "I have set before you life and death... Choose life."

  Desmond Tutu

  Beautiful, Home, Caring

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• True, the fragile bodies of his fellows do not weigh down his plane; true, the fretful minds of weaker men are missing from his crowded cabin; but as his airship keeps its course he holds communion with those rare spirits that inspire to intrepidity and by their sustaining potency give strength to arm, resource to mind, content to soul. Alone? With what other companions would man fly to whom the choice were given?

  Charles Lindbergh

  Men, Giving, Choices

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• More than anything, my wish for you is this: That when your awful darkest days come, you will know you're not alone. Pain will tell you to keep quiet, but that's a lie. Life is fragile and we all break in different ways. I hope you know you can be honest. I hope you know that you can ask for help. Did you catch that? It is absolutely positively okay to ask for help. It simply means you're human. Help is real and it is possible; people find it every day.

  Jamie Tworkowski

  Pain, Real, Lying

  Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.112, Penguin

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• Sometimes I'm fragile, sometimes too emotional, but I'm putting everything I can on my side to be a happy person.

  Ingrid Betancourt

  Emotional, Sides, Sometimes

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Something in me was responding now as the audience responded, not in fear, but in some human way, to the magic of that fragile painted set, the mystery of the lighted world there.

  Anne Rice

  Magic, World, Way

  Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.202, Ballantine Books

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• she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him to the far corners of the Earth, because he needed to be rich enough to buy some land and live in peace with her for the rest of their days. It was his utter confidence in this fragile creature, that had made him fight with honor, because he knew that after a battle he could forget all the horrors of war in her arms, and that, despite all the women he had known, only there in her arms could he close his eyes and sleep like a child.

  Paulo Coelho

  Children, War, Sleep

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• There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike the slight implications of quotidian dilemmas that confront the average citizen in other areas of life ... the stakes in this realm could not be higher. For chances are that at some point along the line you will hold in your hands another person's heart. There is no greater responsibility on the planet. However you contend with this fragile organ, which pounds or seizes in accordance with your caprice, will take your full measure.

  Lionel Shriver

  Hero, Responsibility, Heart

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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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• The world just feels different for those of us who come alive after dark. It's more fragile and unreal, a replica of the one everyone else inhabits.

  Jodi Picoult

  Dark, Different, Alive

  Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Some people are as fragile as butterflies and sensitive and it’s your responsibility not to destroy them. Just because you can

  Marisha Pessl

  Butterfly, Responsibility, People

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.201, Penguin

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• Thank you,” Skulduggery said to her. “I fear he was about to start insulting me.” “I couldn’t let that happen,” she said. “Your ego is a fragile and delicate thing.” “You see? You understand me.

  Derek Landy

  Delicate Things, Ego, Insulting

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• Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks.

  David Mitchell

  Eggs, Bad Mood, Bricks

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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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• Confidence is a very fragile thing.

  Joe Montana

  Confidence, Football, Nfl

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

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• I had this almost Dickensian look. I was quite fragile.

  Rod Stewart

  Looks

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• I don't mind . . . the fun and games of being treated like a fragile flower. But as a physiologist working with the unromantic scientific facts of life, I find it hard to delude myself about feminine frailty.

  Estelle Ramey

  Fun, Flower, Games

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• The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Health, Artist, Sick

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