Fragile Things Quotes

• Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

  Chapman Cohen

  Spiritual, Religious, Atheist

  "An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism" by Gordon Stein, Prometheus Books, (p. 258), 1980.

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• There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

  Neil Gaiman

  Love, Dream, Heart

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Selections from Fragile Things, Volume One: 4 Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

  Alan Rudolph

  Identity, Moments, Found

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

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• Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.

  Vanessa Paradis

  Love Is, Strongest, Fragile

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

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• Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.

  Sam Shepard

  Scare Tactics, Democracy, May

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• True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

  James Broughton

  Strength, Delicacy, Fragile

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• Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would happen if she let it go-or got careless and crushed it.

  Joe Hill

  Depression, Butterfly, Hands

  Joe Hill (2013). “NOS4R2”, p.188, Hachette UK

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• What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble.

  Anais Nin

  Hands, Broke, Keepers

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• I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.

  Neil Gaiman

  Thinking, Debt, Moral

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.13, Harper Collins

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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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• Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

  Jenny Shipley

  Courage, Secure, Fragile

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• Trust is a fragile thing. Once earned, it affords us tremendous freedom. But once trust is lost, it can be impossible to recover. Of course the truth is, we never know who we can trust. Those we're closest to can betray us, and total strangers can come to our rescue. In the end, most people decide to trust only themselves. It really is the simplest way to keep from getting burned.

  Mary Alice

  Life, Happy, People

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• Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, People, Presidential

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.7, Humanix Books

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

  Allison Winn Scotch

  Grudge, Fragile

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• Reality is a fragile thing.

  Cornelia Funke

  Reality, Fragile

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• There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out between lovers and enemies, strangers and friends. But all are fragile things made of just twenty-six letters arranged and re-arranged to form tales and imaginings which will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul.

  Neil Gaiman

  Moving, Night, Strangers And Friends

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• Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

  Ronald Reagan

  Veterans Day, Freedom, Our Veterans

  Labor Day Address at Liberty State Park, delivered 1 September 1980, Jersey City, New Jersey

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• Hearts are fragile things. That's why you have to be so careful.

  Lauren Oliver

  Heart, Delirium, Careful

  Lauren Oliver, Veronica Roth, Lauren Conrad, Sara Shepard, Kiera Cass (2012). “Must-Read Teen Novel Sampler: For the Teen in All of Us: A Collection of Fabulous Reads”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Happiness is a fragile thing, and alcohol, as I know from the house I grew up in, is dangerous to it.

  Marian Engel

  Drinking, House, Alcohol

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• Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Intangible, Difficult

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• Between us, and Hell or Heaven, there is only life between the two, which is the most fragile thing in the world.
  Variant: Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

  Blaise Pascal

  Life, Two, Heaven

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• A coach has to worry not so much about creating motivation, esprit de corps, as about destroying it. The true competitor has it; he wouldn't be a star if he didn't. So you have to mold all these egos together and make sure in your selection of people that you don't destroy the feeling of togetherness or morale, because it is a fragile thing.

  Dick Motta

  Sports, Stars, Motivation

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• Consumer confidence in an industry can be a very fragile thing. It only takes a few builders who promise but don't deliver, who cheat rather than perform, who delay until the warranty expires rather than repair, to damage the reputation of an entire industry.

  Virginia Knauer

  Promise, Damage, Delay

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• It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.

  May Sarton

  Strength, Sometimes, Source

  May Sarton (2014). “I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography”, p.46, Open Road Media

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• 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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