Frail Quotes - Page 6

• Steadfast Seas and MountainsThe lofty mountains and the seas, Being mountains, being seas, Both exist and are real. But frail as flowers are the lives of men, Passing phantoms of this world.

  Reiko Chiba

  Real, Flower, Men

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• And I can tell by the way you're searching
  For something you can't even name
  That you haven't been able to come to the table
  Simply glad that you came
  And when you feel like this try to imagine
  That we're all like frail boats on the sea
  Just scanning the night for that great guiding light
  Announcing the Jubilee

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Night, Light, Sea

  Song: Jubilee, Album: Stones in the Road, 1994

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• We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Pain, Abuse, Suffering

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• The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

  Sallust

  Excellence, Fleeting, Riches

  Sallust (1921). “Sallust”

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• The dreams of youth. So noble. So good. And heavy dreamsthey were- made frail only by their own weight.

  James Michael

  Dream, Noble, Weight

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• More than anything I have learned that we are all frail people, vulnerable and wounded; it is just that some of us are more clever at concealing it than others! And of course the great joke is that it is O.K. to be frail and wounded because that is the way the almighty transcendent God made people.

  Sheila Cassidy

  Clever, People, Way

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• Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed separate institutions that cannot be unified by mechanical linkages frail bridges(or) tinkering. If we are to turn the founders upside down we must directly confront the Constitutional structure they erected.

  James MacGregor Burns

  Reality, Bridges, Tinkering

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• Poltinus the Platonist proves by means of the blossoms and leaves that from the Supreme God, whose beauty is invisible and ineffable, Providence reaches down to the things of earth here below. He points out that these frail and mortal objects could not be endowed with a beauty so immaculate and so exquisitely wrought, did they not issue from the Divinity which endlessly prevades with its invisible and unchanging beauty all things.

  Saint Augustine

  Mean, Issues, Religion

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• Could there possibly have been an incumbent more easy to knock-off than George W. Bush? A real-life opposition party would have been insulted to be matched with a such an unworthy and frail rival. The Democrats, by contrast, got their lights punched out.

  Marc Cooper

  Real, Party, Light

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• And the over-all fact that you are a frail vessel full of errors.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Errors, Self, Vessel

  "The First Circle".

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• Do you really think a man must be strong, masculine, dominating, and the woman frail, obedient and sensitive? This is a conventional idea. Reality is quite different.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Strong, Reality, Men

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what happened inside that heart immediately before.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Suicide, Heart, Bars

  Simone de Beauvoir (1968). “Les Belles Images”

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• The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.

  Sallust

  Fleeting, Wealth, Virtue

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• How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though it may not be much worth preserving, but a letter! Conveyed by uncertain transportation, over which the sender has no control; committed to a single individual who may be careless or inappreciative; left to the mercy of future generations, of families maybe anxious to suppress the past, of the accidents of removals and house-cleanings, or of mere ignorance. How often it has been by the veriest chance that they have survived at all.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Ignorance, Past, House

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• There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and politics, the mass media, the academy and organized religion, our good words tend to float away even as they leave our lips, ascending to an altitude where they neither reflect nor connect with the human condition. We long for words like love, truth, and justice to become flesh and dwell among us. But in our violent world, it's risky business to wrap our frail flesh around words like those, and we don't like the odds.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Odds, Media, Like Love

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• Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense of self is so frail and delicate a bud, that the only thing stopping it from being swallowed whole by the US is an English lady in a funny hat.

  Will Ferguson

  Humorous, Self, Stopping

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• We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Meaningful, Philosophy, Struggle

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• Many Christians are so spiritually frail, sickly, and lacking in spiritual vitality that they cannot stick to prayer for more than a few minutes at a time.

  Wesley L Duewel

  Christian, Spiritual, Prayer

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• I felt a kind of numbness, an enervation, but more particularly an odd fragility - as if my body had actually become frail, hypersensitive and somehow disjointed and clumsy, lacking normal coordination. And soon I was in the throes of a pervasive hypochondria.

  William Styron

  Numbness, Body, Normal

  William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated

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• Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd and under roofs That our frail hands have raised?

  William C. Bryant

  Hands, Years, World

  William Cullen Bryant, “A Forest Hymn”

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• A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years.

  Ovid

  Beauty, Years, Draws

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• Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Children, Loneliness, Left Alone

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• In the City of Death, there is pitch darkness and huge clouds of dust, neither sister nor brother is there. This body is frail, old age is overtaking it.

  Guru Gobind Singh

  Brother, Clouds, Dust

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• Medicaid protects impoverished children, the frail elderly and people in crisis, .. Its limited resources will be further stretched serving hurricane victims. Proponents of Medicaid cuts either undervalue Medicaid assistance or underestimate American compassion.

  Sherrod Brown

  Children, Cutting, Compassion

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• Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too.

  Will Rogers

  War, Flower, Men

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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