Fragile Quotes - Page 22

• Snowdrops: Theirs is a fragile but hardy celebration... in the very teeth of winter.

  Louise Wilder

  Winter, Teeth, Celebration

  Louise Beebe Wilder (1997). “What Happens in My Garden”, Hartley & Marks

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• How incredible it is that in this fragile existence we should hate and destroy one another. There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery over others to pursue mastery over nature. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Hate, Way, Mastery

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1965

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• The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Opposites, Gains, Robust

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Australian economy is resilient, but business and consumer confidence is fragile.

  Julie Bishop

  Economy, Resilient, Consumers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Mean, People, Wish

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• Any system that is deprived of its natural volatility, with government up (unintelligible) volatile, any system becomes very fragile.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Government, Natural, Volatility

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Women are not children. We are not fragile little birds who can't cope with jokes, works of art, or controversial speakers.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Art, Children, Bird

  "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.

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• Big ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. don't forget that, all of you who don't have them.

  John Elliott

  Ideas, Advice, Advertising

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• Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Law, Feelings, Reason

  "Felix Frankfurter Reminisces". Book by Harlan Buddington Phillips, January 1, 1960.

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• 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.

  Danny Pudi

  Football, Running, School

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

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• It is the hope of those who work toward the breakout from planet Earth that the establishment of permanent, self-sustaining colonies of humans off-Earth will ... make human life forever unkillable, removing it from the endangered species list, where it now stands on a fragile Earth overarmed with nuclear weapons. Second, the opening of virtually unlimited new land areas in space will reduce territorial pressures and therefore diminish warfare on Earth itself.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Space, Self, Land

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• The Chinese banking system is built on quicksand and that's the one thing a lot of people don't realize. [...] Everybody seems to think it is a free and clear open checkbook. It's not. [...] The banking system in China is extremely fragile.

  James Chanos

  Thinking, People, Chinese

  "JIM CHANOS: I Visited Hong Kong And Australia, And This Is What I Saw" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. November 23, 2011.

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• It is difficult to see anything but infatuation in the destructive temperament which leads to the action ... that each of us is to rejoice that our several units are to be distinguished at death into countless millions of organisms; for such, it seems, is the latest revelation delivered from the fragile tripod of a modern Delphi.

  William E. Gladstone

  Death, Science, Action

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• The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence.

  Mohamed El-Erian

  Loss, Rating, Consumers

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• Fragile egos are put on the line every day.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Ego, Lines

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• If they think that an artist can destroy their faith, then their faith is rather fragile.

  Marilyn Manson

  Artist, Thinking, Ifs

  "Manson's Croatia Gig Goes Ahead". news.bbc.co.uk. August 23, 2005.

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• I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Children, Thinking, People

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• When do you know it's time to say, 'OK, that's it?' That is the most difficult part of any decision like that because you don't want to throw the 'R' word out there. I've mentioned it a couple times, but not in the sense that I'm doing it. That word is very fragile. We'll see.

  Jim Thome

  Couple, Decision, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Upset, Balance, Ancestor

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• The searing light of morning
  Asks unwelcome questions,
  Fragile hopes soon blistered by daylight.

  Scott Hastie

  Morning, Light, Asks

  Scott Hastie, “Out There”

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• Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable configuration, the surroundings, the artist, his work and everyone who comes to it.

  Allan Kaprow

  Art, Melting, Surroundings

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• Love is like that, fragile and light. No wonder it rests upon our hearts in intangible moments, bids us follow fleeting thoughts and ideas and pursue our abstract imaginings.

  Belinda Peregrin

  Heart, Love Is, Light

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• At the end of the rainbow waited the pot of gold. But rainbows were made of faint and fragile gossamer-and gold weighed a ton-and since the world began, gold was the reason to do most anything.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Rainbow, Gold, World

  Virginia C. Andrews (2004). “Flowers in the Attic”

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• Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.

  Haruki Murakami

  Regret, Thinking, Way

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 06, 2016

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• We're fragile, fragmented souls who are very sensitive to criticism.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Soul, Criticism, Sensitive

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