Best Fragile Lines
666 Fragile quotes by 542 unique authors
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Just as a mirror, which reflects all things, is set in its own container, so too the rational soul is placed in the fragile container…
— Hildegard of Bingen
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She is fragile, she is soft, she is weaker, she is afraid. All around is a man-created world, and she is a stranger in it.…
— Rajneesh
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Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us.
— Osbert Sitwell
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The important point is that the cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the…
— John Carmack
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Let me end with an explanation of why I believe the move into space to be a human imperative. It seems to me obvious in…
— Gene Roddenberry
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On the one hand, we are faced with the stewardship of this beautiful, subtle, incredibly delicate, fragile planet. On the other, we confront the destiny…
— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
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Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing.
— Ogden Nash
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Up to now we have faced external problems in an isolated fashion. One of these problems is precisely the drug trade and what has been…
— Alberto Fujimori
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An elephant is vastly more efficient, metabolically, than a mouse. It's the same for a megacity as opposed to a village. But an elephant can…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Your spiritual family is even more important than your physical family because it will last forever. Our families on Earth are wonderful gifts from God,…
— Rick Warren
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We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure.
— Assia Djebar
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I'm tired of being Scarlett O'Hara. In my next life I'm going to come back as Melanie Wilkes, fragile and helpless.
— Linda Fairstein
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Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing.
— David Duval
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The Bankers' New Clothes makes a simple, powerful argument: that banks need to raise more capital. It is entirely persuasive that the extent of their…
— Diane Coyle
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Later when I thought of the chickens, one of those rare pale blue eggs rose up into my throat. The chickens had been part of…
— Melissa Coleman
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I'm learning how much I have to learn, how little I know, how fragile my understanding is. I'm learning to be thankful and patient; today…
— Jon Foreman
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I broke something and realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is.
— Andy Warhol
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Everything felt fragile and freshly come upon, but for now, at least, my depression had stepped back, giving me room to move forward. I had…
— Daphne Merkin
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I think you're a little more fragile when you're younger.
— Mats Sundin
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Our time here on the earth is short, and our chance to make a difference is tiny. For me the grinding blocks of history came…
— Paul Rusesabagina
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You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away.
— Iain Pears
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Seek wisdom in books, rare manuscripts, and cryptic poems if you will, but seek it out also in simple stones, and fragile herbs, and in…
— Scott Cunningham
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Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing.
— Elizabeth Loftus
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