Frail Quotes

164 Frail quotes by 148 unique authors

We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune. — Bryant H. McGill
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession. — Sallust
The dreams of youth. So noble. So good. And heavy dreamsthey were- made frail only by their own weight. — James Michael
More than anything I have learned that we are all frail people, vulnerable and wounded; it is just that some of us are more clever… — Sheila Cassidy
Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed separate institutions that… — James MacGregor Burns
Poltinus the Platonist proves by means of the blossoms and leaves that from the Supreme God, whose beauty is invisible and ineffable, Providence reaches down… — Saint Augustine
I am a frail vessel full of errors. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of a lately… — Pliny the Elder
The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest. — Michel de Montaigne
Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind, and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength. — Alexis Carrel
That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what… — Simone de Beauvoir
The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting. — Sallust
How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though… — Elizabeth Drew
I started out writing when I was young; stuff about exposing the truth about how people are not what they appear, about how they are… — Mike White
There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and politics, the mass… — Parker J. Palmer
Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense of… — Will Ferguson
Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism,… — Zygmunt Bauman
An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill… — Kim Campbell
We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life. — Bryant H. McGill
Many Christians are so spiritually frail, sickly, and lacking in spiritual vitality that they cannot stick to prayer for more than a few minutes at… — Wesley L Duewel

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