Flimsy Quotes

42 quotes by 41 authors

Habits start out as off-hand remarks, magazine advertisements, friendly hints, experiments - like flimsy cobwebs with little substance. They grow with practice, layer by layer… — Denis Waitley
In the nature of things, a person engaged in the flimsy business of expressing himself on paper is dependent on the large general privilege of… — Elwyn Brooks White
You're looking at a species of flimsy little two-legged animals with extremely small heads whose name is Man...Very tiny undeveloped brain; comes from primitive planet… — Rod Serling
Roles written for women are so much more complex on television. The film world is becoming quite flimsy for women. — Julianna Margulies
He's got to do better than the shoddy piecing together of flimsy evidence that contradicts the briefings we have received by various agencies, .. I'm… — Russ Feingold
I don't much like being a public figure, because so often how people appear is not how they really are, and I think one of… — Robert Winston
Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
GENTLE READER: You, sir, are an anarchist, and Miss Manners is frightened to have anything to do with you. It is true that questioning the… — Judith Martin
It almost seemed as if there must be some random and of course unfair thrift in the emotional housekeeping of the world, if the great… — Alice Munro
Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. We erect edifices in our minds about the flimsy framework of… — Rick Yancey
Words, for all they were flimsy and invisible, had great strength. They could be fortified as a castle wall and sharp as a foil. They… — Jodi Picoult
Sometimes our connection is frayed, it is in danger, it seems almost lost. Views and streets deny knowledge of us, the air grows thin. Wouldn't… — Alice Munro
Ghosts Take shape under moonlight, materialize in dreams. Shadows. Silhouettes of what is no more. But ghosts don't bother me. The day brings bigger things… — Ellen Hopkins
Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill every… — Kurt Vonnegut
Every time I go to sleep, I know I may never wake up. How could anyone expect to? You drop your tiny, helpless mind into… — Isaac Marion
... she called it a paper town. Like, you know, everything so fake and flimsy. — John Green
I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest… — Malcolm Muggeridge
In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way and that by… — Matsuo Basho
Wen a city dat can't protect d virginity of its young ones stood against early marriage and relied upon d frivolous and flimsy xcuse dat… — Abbakhuwa
Life is an intangible gift from GOD. We can neither see it, feel it, or bargain with it. Life is an unsubstantial flimsy thing. It… — Justice Cabral

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