Fragile Quotes

Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they're never fragile. They have souls like old leather shoes studded with steel, and they're about as much good as friends.

We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable product of any definite process.

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

I don't like to sit back and gloat, because the world is fragile. Life is fragile, so I never really gloat.

Success is unpredictable and fragile.

It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile life.

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.

My mother and I were like two continents moving slowly but inexorably apart; my father, the bridge builder, constantly extending the fragile edifice he had constructed to connect us.

don't take many words to break a fragile heart!

Desire can be as fragile as it is sudden.

We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.

Life is fragile, yet to obstinately struggle is natural.

The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

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

It's fragile what we know. It's gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again.

Some teachers should be put in prison for the way they either take advantage of women in their classes or destroy fragile egos. Be careful who you ask to help you when you're in the arts.

We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which fly apart.

Life was precious. Life was fragile. Here one moment, gone the next. Every second should be milked for all it's worth because you never know when the bottom was going to drop out.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.

There's no time to hold grudges when you've seen how fragile things can really be.

Reality is a fragile thing.

Masculine pride is an exceedingly precious and fragile thing

I don't want want to go to jail, I'm fragile.

Progress is slow, it is uneven, it is fragile and in some parts of the world it is being erased.

Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile

I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.

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.

The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives

[Afghanistan and Iraq] are still countries that are fragile enough that we're gonna have to partner with them in some way.

I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.

Love is a fragile, corruptible thing. And yet I have seen it evince a curious strength. It is beyond any comprehension Love is a weakness that once in a great while triumphs over strength.

Stupid, fragile mortals.

His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.

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.

Something about the way she moves through the world does not lend itself to the care of fragile objects.

We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.

I don't do well around the angry, bitter and emotionally fragile among us, which may eliminate 70% of the population.

I ran track in high school. I was a fragile young man, personally and physically. I tried football. That didn't work out; I broke my collarbone. But I always loved running.

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

US Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and I have repeatedly sought to emphasize that the progress in Iraq is fragile and also, possibly, reversible.

How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a kiss, and life.

When we were doing Bullets over Broadway, he told me to be more fragile and I thought I was, but he saw it completely differently.

The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches.

Life is fragile, unless your in the NFL in which case you'll need to wear padding.

Lauryn Hill is quite political and is very bold and isn't afraid of wearing her heart on her sleeve, and same with Bjork, except she is a little bit more kind of fragile.

Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.

Americans are so emotionally fragile that soon we will have to be carried around in plastic bubbles and fed with an eye-dropper.

How can something as fragile as a word build the whole world?

There are plenty of people who don't want change - the Labour Party, some of their militant trade union friends like Unite busy causing strikes at the very beginning of a fragile recovery.

And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God. ("To Science")