Fragile Quotes - Page 27

• Sometimes big things happen, and they echo. Those echoes crash across worlds. They are the ripples in the fabric of things. Often they manifest as storms. Reality is a fragile thing, after all.

  Neil Gaiman

  Reality, Echoes, Storm

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• Hold me? If you still want to, I mean." She looked away. "Everyday"--then he was there, lifting her into his arms, holding her like she was fragile and precious--"I want to hold you every day. Nothing will ever change that.

  Melissa Marr

  Mean, Everyday, Want

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• All good things in life are fragile and easily lost

  Khaled Hosseini

  Things In Life, Good Things, Lost

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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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• Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just improve the things that are not so good. What is lacking in this conception is any sense that a society, an institution, or even a single human being, is an intricate system of fragile inter-relationships, whose complexities are little understood and easily destabilized.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Littles, Assumption

  Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• I love surfing and bodysurfing. I love getting slammed by the waves - that makes me feel alive. The waves are a good reminder that I'm small and fragile.

  Jason Mraz

  Surfing, Alive, Wave

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 01, 2014.

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• Christmas garland and a rock?" he said, a smile in his voice."Why not an ornament?" "Wolves aren't fragile," I told him. "And they're... stubbon and hard to move

  Patricia Briggs

  Moving, Rocks, Voice

  Patricia Briggs (2010). “Silver Borne”, p.206, Penguin

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• I would always love this fragile human girl, for the rest of my limitless existence.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Girl, Limitless, Existence

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• The girls in California were probably prettier in a standard sense than the New York girls--blonder and in better health, I guess; but I still preferred the way the girls in New York looked--stranger and more neurotic (a girl always looked more beautiful and fragile when she was about to have a nervous breakdown).

  Andy Warhol

  Beautiful, Girl, New York

  Andy Warhol (1990). “POPism: The Warhol '60s”, Harvest Books

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• Demons feed on death and pain madness," Valentine said. "When I kill, it is because I must. You grew up in a falsely beautiful paradise surrounded by fragile glass walls, my daughter. Your mother created the world she wanted to live in and she brought you up in it, but she never told you it was an illusion. And all the time the demons waited with their weapons of blood and terror to smash the glass and pull you free of the lie.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Daughter, Mother

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.830, Simon and Schuster

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• She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Numbers

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• if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beautiful, Treasure, Ifs

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2000). “Selected Works: Including The Sorrows of Young Werther, Elective Affinities, Italian Journey, Faust”, Everyman's Library

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• She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Sleep, World, Wide Awake

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• No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and exploitation... We have to learn to cherish this earth and cherish it as something that's fragile, that's only one, it's all we have... We have to use our scientific knowledge to correct the dangers that have come from science and technology.

  Margaret Mead

  Technology, Temptation, Mastery

  "Margaret Mead, 1901-1978: One of the Most Famous Anthropologists in the World". Voice of America Special English: "People in America" with Steve Ember and Shirley Griffith, learningenglish.voanews.com. July 1, 2011.

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• What an awful thing then, being there in our house together with our daughter gone, trying to be equal to so many sudden orders of sorrow, any one of which alone would have wrenched us from our fragile orbits around each other.

  Paul Harding

  Daughter, Order, House

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• Let us be good stewards of the Earth we inherited. All of us have to share the Earth's fragile ecosystems and precious resources, and each of us has a role to play in preserving them. If we are to go on living together on this earth, we must all be responsible for it.

  Kofi Annan

  Teamwork, Responsibility, Ecosystems

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