I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week...to remind me how fragile life is.
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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
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Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
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I am as vulnerable and fragile as it is possible to be. I am shredded to the core. I am at the point where I am stripped bare.
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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
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Courage is not the towering oak That sees storms come and go It is the fragile blossom That opens in the snow.
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A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together!
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For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile nothing endures except the sense of difference.
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The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
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He didn't want to tell his son what to do, but told me to write the president a letter. I didn't name a country, but there are many countries we have a fragile relationship with.
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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.
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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
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Life is Fragile, Handle with Prayer
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The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.
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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.
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The course of my long life hath reached at last In fragile bark o'er a tempestuous sea...
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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.
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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.
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A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.
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Gods are fragile things they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
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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.
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Friendships are fragile things and require as much care in handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
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Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense
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Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
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Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment
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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths --your abilities and your failings.
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Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
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Democracy is not a fragile flower still it needs cultivating.
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At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths-your abilities and your failings.
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