Fragile Quotes - Page 29

• Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Powerful, Maturity, Empires

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• How fragile life was, how fleeting their days on earth, and how fickle was Death, claiming the young as often as the old, the healthy as often as the ailing, cruelly stealing away a baby's first breath, a mother's fading heartbeat.

  Sharon Kay Penman

  Mother, Baby, Healthy

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• The sight filled the northern sky; the immensity of it was scarcely conceivable. As if from Heaven itself, great curtains of delicate light hung and trembled. Pale green and rose-pink, and as transparent as the most fragile fabric, and at the bottom edge a profound fiery crimson like the fires of Hell, they swung and shimmered loosely with more grace than the most skillful dancer.

  Philip Pullman

  Fire, Light, Sight

  Philip Pullman (1995). “Northern lights”

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• Of all the qualities of human beings that are injured, narrowed, or repressed in the Corporate State, it is consciousness, the most precious and the most fragile, that suffers the most.

  Charles A. Reich

  Suffering, Quality, Consciousness

  charles a. reich (1970). “the greening of america”

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• Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.

  Edward Bond

  Men, Mad, Awkward

  Edward Bond (2013). “Lear”, p.84, A&C Black

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• If you're a woman, it's almost impossible to establish a relationship. You're too much for everybody. It's too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if you're not, they're fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave.

  Marina Abramovic

  Crush, Women, Play

  "Performance artist Marina Abramović: 'I was ready to die'" By Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2014.

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• With climate change and health crises rightfully receiving international attention, the time has come to focus on hunger as a top priority. WHO regards hunger and malnutrition as the gravest threat to public health, and climate change threatens to further destabilise already fragile food-production systems.

  Josette Sheeran

  Focus, Priorities, Receiving

  "The Challenge of Hunger". The Lancet Article, www.thelancet.com. January 17, 2008.

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• Stronach's fragile beauty belies an emotional strength, pragmatic resiliency, and intellectual courage. Her ideas and choreography are both enigmatic and playful.

  Tami Stronach

  Emotional, Ideas, Intellectual

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• Become abundant with your compliments to others. We're all so fragile, especially when we put on a brave face. A sincere compliment can penetrate beneath even the most sophisticated masks to soothe troubled souls.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Inspirational, Brave Face, Soul

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• Sometimes ... the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape with a quantity of suggestion. A single incident, a mere anecdote - these form the spine of the short short.

  Irving Howe

  Writing, Suggestions, Anecdotes

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• (He was) a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic.

  Bob Costas

  Baseball, Strong, Hero

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• Thy Banners gleam a little, and are furled; Against thy turrets surge His phantom tow'rs; Drugged with his Opiates the nations nod, Refusing still the beauty of thine hours; And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.

  George Sterling

  Atheism, World, Littles

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• Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!

  Tom Peters

  Procrastination, Thinking, Worst Enemy

  Tom Peters (1999). “The Project50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every "Task" into a Project That Matters!”, p.89, Knopf

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• The grand difference between a human being and a Supreme being is precisely this: Apart from God I cannot exist; apart from me God does exist. God does not need me in order for Him to be. I do need God in order for me to be. We are dependent. We are fragile. This is how we differ from God.

  R. C. Sproul

  Order, Differences, Doe

  R.C. Sproul (2008). “Discovering the God Who Is: His Character and Being. His Power and Personality”, p.23, Gospel Light Publications

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• When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes.

  Charles Dickens

  Death, Tears, And Love

  Charles Dickens (1858). “The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces”, p.138

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• Some young people do not sufficiently understand the advantages of natural charms, and how much they would gain by trusting to them entirely. They weaken these gifts of heaven, so rare and fragile, by affected manners and an awkward imitation. Their tones and their gait are borrowed; they study their attitudes before the glass until they have lost all trace of natural manner, and, with all their pains, they please but little.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Pain, Attitude, Glasses

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• With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Life, Reality, Perfect

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Pretties”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thought for the wonder of later years, and tell of happening that are gone clean away, and be a voice for us out of the dark of time, and save many a fragile thing from the pounding of heavy ages; or carry to us, over the rolling centuries, even a song from lips long dead on forgotten hills.

  Lord Dunsany

  Song, Dark, Men

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• Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of faith in his eyes, his belief in her. He had always thought she was strong. He had showed it in everything he did, in every look and every touch. Simon had faith in her too, yet when he'd held her, it had been as if she were something fragile, something made of delicate glass. But Jace had held her with all the strength he had, never wondering if she could take it--he'd known she was as strong has he was.

  Cassandra Clare

  Strength, Faith, Strong

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.489, Simon and Schuster

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• His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.

  Margaret Atwood

  Mother, Father, Self

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, p.56, Anchor

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• Aquamarines grew with emeralds, Claire told me. But emeralds were fragile and always broke into smaller pieces, while aquamarines were stronger, grew in huge crystals without any trouble, so they weren't worth as much. It was the emerald that didn't break that was the really valuable thing.

  Janet Fitch

  Stronger, Pieces, Emeralds

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.161, Hachette UK

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• Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow. You special, miraculous, unrepeatable, fragile, fearful, tender, lost, sparkling ruby emerald jewel, rainbow splendor person. It's up to you.

  Joan Baez

  Morning, Jewels, Rainbow

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• Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush.

  Melissa Marr

  Crush, Feelings, Shells

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• We are accustomed to repeating the cliché, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our children.' But we have plenty of children to go around, God knows, and as with Doritos, we can always make more. The true scarcity we face is practicing adults, of people who know how marginal, how fragile, how finite their lives and their stories and their ambitions really are but who find value in this knowledge, even a sense of strange comfort, because they know their condition is universal, is shared.

  Michael Chabon

  Children, Believe, Ambition

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• It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.

  Suzanne Collins

  Catching On, Catching Fire, Berries

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.22, Scholastic Inc.

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