Fragile Quotes - Page 26

• I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspirational, People, Understanding

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.301, Princeton University Press

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• There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike the slight implications of quotidian dilemmas that confront the average citizen in other areas of life ... the stakes in this realm could not be higher. For chances are that at some point along the line you will hold in your hands another person's heart. There is no greater responsibility on the planet. However you contend with this fragile organ, which pounds or seizes in accordance with your caprice, will take your full measure.

  Lionel Shriver

  Hero, Responsibility, Heart

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• People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Anger, Fighting, Names

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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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• Who is affected more when it's cold? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's hot? Poor people. Who is affected more when it's wet? Poor people. Who is most affected when the economy is bad? Poor people. Poor people are the most fragile.

  Russel Honore

  People, Hot, Cold

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• I think the regime in North Korea is more fragile than people think. The country's economic system remains desperate, and one thing that could happen for example would be under a new government in South Korea, to get the South Korean government to live up to its own constitution, which says any Korean who makes it to South Korea, is a Korean citizen. A citizen of the Republic of Korea. And you could imagine the impact that would have inside North Korea if people thought, "If I could get out and make it to South Korea, I could have a different life."

  John Bolton

  Country, Thinking, Korea

  Source: humanevents.com

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• The thing that [the Senate and the House] don't realize is that everyone wants them to come from beyond that contradiction so that we can all fix it. Nobody is saying, "We don't have a problem." Nobody is saying that, "9/11 didn't happen." What they're saying is, "We're not a fragile country, trust us to have this conversation, so that we can do this in the right way, in a more effective way."

  Jon Stewart

  Country, House, Want

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• [When you have kids] you become much more - there are two things that happen. You recognize how fragile individuals are, and you recognize the strength of the general overall group, but you don't care anymore. You're just fighting for the one thing. See and then, you also recognize that everybody, then, is also somebody's child.

  Jon Stewart

  Children, Kids, Fighting

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• A possibility is that we see more and more leverage, and credit-to-GDP ratios rise once more to even higher levels; eventually the banking systems of all advanced economies reach magnitudes of 500 percent, 1000 percent or more of GDP, so that every economy starts to have financial systems that resemble recent cases like Switzerland, Ireland, Iceland, or Cyprus. That might be a very fragile world to live in.

  Alan M. Taylor

  Iceland, Gdp, Switzerland

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.

  will.i.am

  Mind, Music Is, Sane

  "The Voice judge Will.i.am tells of his battle with ADHD" by Natalie Edwards, www.mirror.co.uk. April 28, 2013.

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• He considers me also a little fragile because artistic. I need to be cared for, like a potted plant.

  Margaret Atwood

  Needs, Littles, Artistic

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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• It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Morning, Bed

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.81, A&C Black

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• Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Eggs, World

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.348, Penguin

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• The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Inspirational, Change, Dream

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must've hit a window. Calvin: Isn't it beautiful? It's so delicate. Sighhh... once it's too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is. You realize that nature is ruthless and our existence is very fragile, temporary, and precious. But to go on with your daily affairs, you can't really think about that... which is probably why everyone takes the world for granted and why we act so thoughtlessly. It's very confusing. I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up. Hobbes: No doubt.

  Bill Watterson

  Beautiful, Growing Up, Thinking

  "There's Treasure Everywhere". Book by Bill Watterson, March 1996.

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• Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Light, Blue, Years

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.156, Random House

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• I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Tough, Fierce

  Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA

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• While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

  Madeleine Albright

  Running, Government, Long

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• Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together.

  Joan Jett

  Strong, Together, Life Is

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• Love is fragile -- she was thinking -- but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said. The new love-words, the tenderness learned, and treasured up for the next lover.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Love Is, Thinking, Pieces

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1994). “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz: And Other Stories”, p.67, Wordsworth Editions

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• I don't mind . . . the fun and games of being treated like a fragile flower. But as a physiologist working with the unromantic scientific facts of life, I find it hard to delude myself about feminine frailty.

  Estelle Ramey

  Fun, Flower, Games

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• I know that I am birdlike, made narrow and small as if for taking flight, built straight-waisted and fragile. But when he touches me like he can't bear to take his hand away, I don't wish I was any different.

  Veronica Roth

  Hands, Wish, Different

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)”, p.35, HarperCollins UK

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• Did you really think I was too fragile to know what Deryn was?" "Fragile?" Volger looked about. "I hadn't thought so, but now I find you brooding in a bathroom. This doesn't speak well of your sturdiness.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Thinking, Bathroom, Speak

  Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan Trilogy: Leviathan; Behemoth; Goliath”, p.904, Simon and Schuster

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• It's there. The white rose among the dried flowers in the vase. Shriveled and fragile, but holding on to that unnatural perfection cultivated in Snows greenhouse. I grab the vase, stumble down to the kitchen, and throw its contents into the embers. As the flowers flare up, a burst of blue flame envelops the rose and devours it. Fire beats roses again.

  Suzanne Collins

  Flower, Fire, Blue

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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, Fragile Things

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