I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind, and spirit which gives the frail human reed… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
But we all recognise the primary foible of frail humanity - our propensity for embracing hope and shunning logic, our tendency to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Man seems not so much wicked as frail, unable to face pain, trouble and growing old. A good woman knows that nature… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting. — Sallust Copy Share Image
No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
And behind their frail partitions Business women lie and soak, Seeing through the draughty skylight Flying clouds and railway smoke. Rest you… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
Presumption is our natural and original malady. The most vulnerable and frail of all creatures is man, and at the same time… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Our thoughts are boundless, though our frames are frail, Our souls immortal, though our limbs decay; Though darken'd in this poor life… — James Gates Percival Copy Share Image
My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Whenever I act well, my head clears. Always a bit frail I was personally, but never professionally. — Rachel Roberts Copy Share Image
We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
The Eucharist is source and pledge of blessedness and glory, not for the soul alone, but for the body also.... In the… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A number of frail girls... prisoners in the top room of a circular tower, embroidering a kind of tapestry which spilled out… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“We need not be afraid of expecting the unexpected, but let us wheedle each instant we enjoy and endear each happy moment… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We danced our youth in a dreamed of city, Venice, paradise, proud and pretty, We lived for love and lust and beauty,… — Veronica Franco Copy Share Image
We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE RARE AND… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
