Fragile Quotes - Page 29

• Let us be good stewards of the Earth we inherited. All of us have to share the Earth's fragile ecosystems and precious resources, and each of us has a role to play in preserving them. If we are to go on living together on this earth, we must all be responsible for it.

  Kofi Annan

  Teamwork, Responsibility, Ecosystems

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• What an awful thing then, being there in our house together with our daughter gone, trying to be equal to so many sudden orders of sorrow, any one of which alone would have wrenched us from our fragile orbits around each other.

  Paul Harding

  Daughter, Order, House

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• No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and exploitation... We have to learn to cherish this earth and cherish it as something that's fragile, that's only one, it's all we have... We have to use our scientific knowledge to correct the dangers that have come from science and technology.

  Margaret Mead

  Technology, Temptation, Mastery

  "Margaret Mead, 1901-1978: One of the Most Famous Anthropologists in the World". Voice of America Special English: "People in America" with Steve Ember and Shirley Griffith, learningenglish.voanews.com. July 1, 2011.

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• She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Sleep, World, Wide Awake

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• if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beautiful, Treasure, Ifs

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2000). “Selected Works: Including The Sorrows of Young Werther, Elective Affinities, Italian Journey, Faust”, Everyman's Library

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• I tried to breathe, failing. I clutched her to me, tears slipping from under my closed eyes. It was as if her soul was liquid fire and I could feel her aura, swirling about mine. She was taking my aura. But I wanted to give it to her, to cat her in a small part of me and protect her. Her needs made her so fragile.

  Kim Harrison

  Cat, Eye, Fire

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

  George Sterling

  Atheism, World, Ghost

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• Christmas garland and a rock?" he said, a smile in his voice."Why not an ornament?" "Wolves aren't fragile," I told him. "And they're... stubbon and hard to move

  Patricia Briggs

  Moving, Rocks, Voice

  Patricia Briggs (2010). “Silver Borne”, p.206, Penguin

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• Stupid, fragile mortals.

  Carrie Vaughn

  Stupid, Mortals

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• You trap yourself sometimes, by thinking desire and need is love. Love is something far more precious, but something far more fragile. As fragile as one of our tiniest, most intricate, most delicately crafted toys. Hold on to it too tightly, and it will crumble on your fingers, but hold on to it loosely, and the wind might blow it away and shatter it on the cold ground. Listen to the voice comes from your heart, but be absolutely sure the voice comes from your heart.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Heart, Blow, Love Is

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

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Heart, Break

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• He pulled away the glove, and at the first glimpse of her fragile, white hand, all thoughts of negotiation fled. "I don't see how matters could become worse," he muttered. "I am already besotted with a needle-tongued, conceited, provoking ape leader of a lady." Her head jerked up. "Besotted? You're nothing like it. Vengeful is more like it. Spiteful.

  Loretta Chase

  Conceited, Hands, White

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• We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we don't really matter to it.

  Neil Strauss

  Machines, Matter, Now And Then

  Neil Strauss (2011). “Emergency: One man's story of a dangerous world, and how to stay alive in it”, p.398, Canongate Books

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• You asked me once if I would still love you when your lips were puckered with age and your eyes were faded. I can assure you that I will still love you when I have only the strength (and the scant teeth) left to gum those puckered lips. I shall love you when your bones are sharp enough to pierce my fragile flesh. I shall love you when the light in my own eyes fades for good and yours is the last sweet face I see. Because I am and ever shall be.

  Teresa Medeiros

  Sweet, Love You, Eye

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• But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.

  Marcel Proust

  Past, Essence, Smell

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.50, Vintage

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• There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.

  Jodi Picoult

  Choices, Balance, Too Late

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.456, Simon and Schuster

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• It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how they were, in reality, tiny load-bearing marble halls; while the beat of the wings of a butterfly in the right place, we are told, can create a hurricane across an ocean. Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Children, Ocean

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• Pea was aware suddenly of how fragile her heart was, how much darkness was inside it, fighting, always, with the light. She did not like the rat. She would neverlike the rat, but she knew what she must do to save her own heart.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Heart, Fighting, Light

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• With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Life, Reality, Perfect

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Pretties”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear, and superstition. By the year 2050, when the conflict began, the world had fallen upon fearful, superstitious times.

  Bernard Beckett

  Fear, Optimistic, Years

  "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, www.npr.org. 2010.

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• only a matter of time before it broke through our fragile web of denial, forcing us to confront the truth and acknowledge who we are: two people in love – a love that nobody else could possibly understand.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Two, People, Denial

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• But I'd much rather face a dozen assassins like LaFleur any night than deal with something as tricky, convoluted, and fragile as my feelings.

  Jennifer Estep

  Night, Feelings, Assassins

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• And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thought for the wonder of later years, and tell of happening that are gone clean away, and be a voice for us out of the dark of time, and save many a fragile thing from the pounding of heavy ages; or carry to us, over the rolling centuries, even a song from lips long dead on forgotten hills.

  Lord Dunsany

  Song, Dark, Men

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• Unfortunately, in Russia this "Asian mentality,"still comes to the fore. But at the same time, it is obvious that there is a certain orientation toward the West. In the end, this is a fragile balancing act between the Asian manner of governance and high living standards that are guaranteed through Western technology.

  Garry Kasparov

  Technology, Russia, West

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• Now very much against her will, she thought of the way Jace had looked at her then, the blaze of faith in his eyes, his belief in her. He had always thought she was strong. He had showed it in everything he did, in every look and every touch. Simon had faith in her too, yet when he'd held her, it had been as if she were something fragile, something made of delicate glass. But Jace had held her with all the strength he had, never wondering if she could take it--he'd known she was as strong has he was.

  Cassandra Clare

  Strength, Faith, Strong

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.489, Simon and Schuster

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