Fragile Quotes - Page 25

• The God I believe in is not so fragile that you hurt Him by being angry at him, or so petty that He will hold it against you for being upset with Him.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Hurt, Believe, Upset

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• I think the secret of my light, quick, foot strike is related to the fact that I have fragile feet.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Thinking, Light

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• Then in October, Indian Summer, the air turned so soft, the sunlight so fragile, and each day's loveliness so poignantly doomed that even self-ignorance and restlessness felt like profound states of being, and he just wandered the empty beaches and misty headlands in a state of serene confusion and awe.

  David James Duncan

  Summer, Beach, Ignorance

  David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.401, Dial Press

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• True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

  James Broughton

  Strength, Delicacy, Fragile Things

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• The attractions of ceramics lie partly in its contradictions. It is both difficult and easy, with an element beyond our control. It is both extremely fragile and durable. Like 'Sumi' ink painting, it does not lend itself to erasures and indecision.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Lying, Difficult And Easy, Ink

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• The Keystone pipeline will spew a massive amount of carbon pollution into our fragile atmosphere. It should be stopped.

  Jill Stein

  Atmosphere, Keystone Pipeline, Pollution

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

  Jenny Shipley

  Courage, Fragile Things, Secure

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• What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Paper, Vessel

  "Testimony" by Solomon Volkov, p. 229, 1979.

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• Human existence may be simpler than we thought. There is no predestination, no unfathomed mystery of life. Demons and gods do not vie for our allegiance. Instead, we are self-made, independent, alone, and fragile, a biological species adapted to live in a biological world. What counts for long-term survival is intelligent self-understanding, based upon a greater independence of thought than that tolerated today even in our most advanced democratic societies.

  E. O. Wilson

  Independent, Intelligent, Self

  "The Meaning of Human Existence" by Keith Hess, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 25, 2016.

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• Unfortunately, in seeing ourselves as we truly are, not all that we see is beautiful and attractive. This is undoubtedly part of the reason we flee silence. We do not want to be confronted with our hypocrisy, our phoniness. We see how false and fragile is the false self we project. We have to go through this painful experience to come to our true self.

  Basil Pennington

  Beautiful, Self, Painful Experiences

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• We have arrived at the point where the public are right in thinking that John Prescott no longer serves a purpose in governing the country, only a purpose in trying to hold together the fragile peace in the Labour Party

  Andrew Lansley

  Country, Party, Thinking

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• You appreciate the little details in life once you realize how fragile it isYou respect the afterlife when you realize how powerful it is.

  Zak Bagans

  Powerful, Afterlife, Appreciate

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

  David Mitchell

  Eggs, Bad Mood, Bricks

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• Some people are as fragile as butterflies and sensitive and it’s your responsibility not to destroy them. Just because you can

  Marisha Pessl

  Butterfly, Responsibility, People

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.201, Penguin

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• The world just feels different for those of us who come alive after dark. It's more fragile and unreal, a replica of the one everyone else inhabits.

  Jodi Picoult

  Dark, Different, Alive

  Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I stare at her collarbone that's framed with lace, the hollow of her throat, her shoulders that rise with each rise with the weight of her next breath. We're fragile things. Our bones show through our skin. What would any god want with us?

  Lauren DeStefano

  Skins, Weight, Want

  FaceBook post by Lauren DeStefano from Apr 15, 2013

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• All good things in life are fragile and easily lost

  Khaled Hosseini

  Things In Life, Good Things, Lost

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• Thank you,” Skulduggery said to her. “I fear he was about to start insulting me.” “I couldn’t let that happen,” she said. “Your ego is a fragile and delicate thing.” “You see? You understand me.

  Derek Landy

  Delicate Things, Ego, Insulting

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• Hold me? If you still want to, I mean." She looked away. "Everyday"--then he was there, lifting her into his arms, holding her like she was fragile and precious--"I want to hold you every day. Nothing will ever change that.

  Melissa Marr

  Mean, Everyday, Want

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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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• She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Regret, Flower, Men

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• DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about WILL COME TRUE. It's a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it's a fragile feeling, and you put it out there, then someone will kill it. It's best to keep that all inside.

  Bob Dylan

  Destiny, Self, Feelings

  Bob Dylan, Robert Santelli (2005). “The Bob Dylan scrapbook: 1956-1966”, Egully.com

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• Fire is a fragile lover, court her well, neglect her not; her faith is like a misty smoke, her anger is destructive hot.

  Cate Tiernan

  Fire, Hot, Lovers

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• 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.

  Anne Rice

  Magic, World, Way

  Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.202, Ballantine Books

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• she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him to the far corners of the Earth, because he needed to be rich enough to buy some land and live in peace with her for the rest of their days. It was his utter confidence in this fragile creature, that had made him fight with honor, because he knew that after a battle he could forget all the horrors of war in her arms, and that, despite all the women he had known, only there in her arms could he close his eyes and sleep like a child.

  Paulo Coelho

  Children, War, Sleep

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