Frail Quotes

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The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars. — Giotto di Bondone
People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they… — Bruce Campbell
I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find… — Helena Bonham Carter
The bending of men's hearts to believe and persevere are the supernatural fruits of God's eternal decree, and not the natural fruits of man's depraved… — William Jenkyn
Reality is, after all, too big for our frail understanding to fully comprehend. Nevertheless, we have to build our life on the theory which contains… — Subhas Chandra Bose
Cats, as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by the fact that in ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods. This… — P.G. Wodehouse
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness,… — Aristophanes
Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of… — Thomas de Quincey
Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to. — William Shakespeare
Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows in yonder West; the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes and great cloud… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Let weak and frail man come here suppliantly to adore the Sacrament of Christ, not to discuss high things, or wish to penetrate difficulties, but… — Paul of the Cross
The Eucharist is source and pledge of blessedness and glory, not for the soul alone, but for the body also.... In the frail and perishable… — Pope Leo XIII
I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement; battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can learn, the… — John Quincy Adams
The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail… — Max Lerner
All the things paper-thin and paper-frail, and all the people too. — John Green
Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are. — Abraham Lincoln
Life is a frail moth flying Caught in the web of the years that pass. — Sara Teasdale
It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate… — D. H. Lawrence
There are many images and realities of what women are, become, can be - strong, vulnerable, dogged, determined, frail, brave, courageous. The faces of women… — Jocelynne Scutt
The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any… — Robert D. Putnam

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