Best Fragile Quotations
666 Fragile quotes by 542 unique authors
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With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality.
— Sara Teasdale
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
— Sallust
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Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Basketball is a great mystery. You can do everything right. You can have the perfect mix of talent and the best system of offense in…
— Phil Jackson
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Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile egalitarian doctrines and emancipating programs…
— Russell Kirk
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I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again
— Tracey Emin
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The Keystone pipeline will spew a massive amount of carbon pollution into our fragile atmosphere. It should be stopped.
— Jill Stein
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What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
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Human existence may be simpler than we thought. There is no predestination, no unfathomed mystery of life. Demons and gods do not vie for our…
— E. O. Wilson
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Then in October, Indian Summer, the air turned so soft, the sunlight so fragile, and each day's loveliness so poignantly doomed that even self-ignorance and…
— David James Duncan
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The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to…
— Gretel Ehrlich
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What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway? Why should men not show that they can be fragile or seductive? I am only happy when…
— Jean Paul Gaultier
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Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.
— Jenny Shipley
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Big ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. don't forget that, all of you who don't have them.
— Unknown Author
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We're fragile, fragmented souls who are very sensitive to criticism.
— Gordon Ramsay
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It is strange how fragile this man-creature is.....in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all.
— Nelson Algren
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The possibilities and probabilities are all we have to work with in medicine, though. What we are drawn to in this imperfect science, what we…
— Atul Gawande
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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…
— Felix Frankfurter
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Fragile egos are put on the line every day.
— Mary Lou Retton
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If they think that an artist can destroy their faith, then their faith is rather fragile.
— Marilyn Manson
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I've decided life is too fragile to finish a book I dislike just because it cost $16.95 and everyone else loved it. Or eat a…
— Erma Bombeck
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For the first time in my life I saw the horizon as a curved line. It was accentuated by a thin seam of dark blue…
— Unknown Author
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Looking outward to the blackness of space, sprinkled with the glory of a universe of lights, I saw majesty-but no welcome. Below was a welcoming…
— Loren Acton
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The world looks marvelous from up here, so peaceful, so wonderful and so fragile. Everybody, all of us down there, not only in Israel, have…
— Ilan Ramon
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Bismarck's genius, as well as his great flaw, was the same as that of another outstanding nineteenth-century politician of the German-speaking world, Prince Clemens Metternich.…
— Robert D. Kaplan
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