Fragile Quotations

Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.

Self confidence for me is a fragile fleece.

The thought of security bears within it an essential risk. A state which has security as its sole task and source of legitimacy is a fragile organism; it can always be provoked by terrorism to become more terroristic.

Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.

Most art is fragile and some should be placed and never moved away.

I am an emotional and fragile person. I observe life, I am perceptive and can read a person's body language. I have a strong journalistic streak in me, and had I not been a filmmaker, I would have become a film journalist. I have combined my perceptive and journalistic traits to create my own brand of cinema.

The bulk of my learning - if I may call it such - has come within the past three months, after I became a part of the fragile body of patients who make up an AIDS hospice. Here, surrounded by teams of supportive nurses, attentive doctors, and interns, one gently comes upon his own strengths and shortcomings.

When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.

There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

Fragile egos are put on the line every day.

'I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good.

Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate.

I'd want to bring a flamethrower to faculty meetings. The preciousness of academics and their fragile personalities would not be tolerated in any other business in the known universe.

I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.

I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again

Women born and raised on this fragile planet have more uniting us than dividing us - and it's the job of feminists to help us realise that.

Reading Poe was like a near-death experience, the kind that makes you feel fragile and free in its wake. I felt almost as though I'd scared myself alive.

It's really interesting that, in 'The Avengers,' the character that people relate to is The Hulk, and I think the reason why they relate to The Hulk is because he's fragile and human and faulty.

I think we have a rawer version of capitalism and a more fragile community and family base than other nations. We are a more individualistic culture. From the Boston Tea Party on, we've had too little faith in government.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.

I had this almost Dickensian look. I was quite fragile.

The innovative process is a fragile one, dependent on a complex, often messy interplay of imagination, competition, and exchange. Curbing new ideas hurts not only individual creators but the audience for which they create and the posterity that inherits their legacy.

On the one hand, I'm very confident about the future, but it is also important to see that this is a very fragile period for the company.

Obviously, right now we're a fragile team. I don't think there are any questions about it.

Obviously right now we're a fragile team. I don't think there's any question about it. As we go on, that's something we have to fix to win games.

We're just fragile right now. Wish I could explain why.

Let's put it this way: We will be in a fragile economy.

In fashion even what seems most fragile must be built on cement.

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling

Fragile economies and weak infrastructures tend to worsen the results of climate disruptions, a problem exemplified by Bangladesh's vulnerability to monsoons, accelerating desertification in northern China, and, most visibly, Hurricane Katrina's devastation in New Orleans.

Fragile is pretty accurate. I think that's a good assessment of us right now. I'm not saying we don't want to do something, but we're not making plays. This is pretty much a must-win game. I mean, we need the points.

But we will be a little more fragile this time.

I do not want to impose additional taxes on the employers at a time when our economy is very fragile and we want to encourage them to hire.

Her racket is actually fragile -- powerful but fragile,

When I played 'Survivor', I sat back many times and marveled that no one had gotten into a real physical altercation. With all the backbiting, lies, and lack of food, a fight didn't sound far off base, considering the strained and fragile emotions.

He was a good dude before. He's an even better dude now. This is a guy who's been through a lot. He's one guy who knows how fragile life can be.

Some people are fragile enough that they may still succumb to this.

I think every big town should contain artificial waterfalls that people can descend in very fragile canoes, and they should contain bathing pools full of mechanical sharks. Any person found advocating a preventive war should be condemned to two hours

I think Elliott's songs and The Spree's songs complement each other both chord and tone-wise, as well as with the goals of their music. In different ways, they both have written music that deals with being fragile. Yes, I think The Spree are all about fragility. As big and happy as they can sound, they're sort of 'The Fragile Army' to me.

landmark in a very difficult fragile development towards democracy.

I think language does bring us together. Fragile and misleading as it is, it's the best communication we've got, and poetry is language at its most intense and potentially fulfilling. Poems do bring people together.

It did get the word out to a lot more people about the owl and how fragile their environment is.

Joan is very funny. I'm always telling her she's a fraud: Everyone thinks she's fragile and humorless, when we all know she's wildly funny and the last surviving member of the Donner party.

It is hard to imagine that, having downgraded the US, S & P will not follow suit on at least one of the other members of the dwindling club of sovereign AAAs. If this were to materialise and involve a country like France, for example, it could complicate the already fragile efforts by Europe to rescue countries in its periphery.

Right now the blood supply is very fragile and just one serious trauma could wipe-out the supply in any one type. Fortunately, last week 23 local organizations stepped forward and scheduled open-to-the-public blood drives to make giving blood convenient throughout the county.

It does wonders for us to jump out early. Our psyche is pretty fragile with our record in the past. When we can jump out and get a quick lead it just builds momentum for us.

I think it undermines the fragile coalition that we have with our allies,

I thought defensively we were in much better position. We're a little fragile in our own zone sometimes and guys will get running around a little bit. I thought our positioning was much better.

I think it's just more a nervous energy there that he's gonna regress and something's gonna flare up again. That's tough to play with knowing in the back of your mind, kinda thinking you're almost fragile compared to what you're usually able to play at.

We need an honest, balanced energy plan that gives us cleaner, cheaper and safer energy solutions and protects spectacular wild places like the Arctic Refuge and America?s fragile coasts.

Time is short, and optimism is a fragile commodity, ... miss this opportunity for change, we will regret it for the next decade.

You know, I am not fragile of mind, ... Just because I've been out, this is the kind of opportunity I love. But when a guy's throwing 100, it's pretty tough to catch up with it. And if he throws a cutter at 100 ... man, that's not easy.

We are disappointed that the Bank did not take the opportunity to provide some support for the fragile economy.

We know that the people choosing to buy at BEACHWALK not only appreciate our exceptional location, clubhouse and amenities, they also care about preserving the environmental integrity of the community. By contributing to Tampa Bay Watch we're playing a part in protecting and preserving the fragile nature of the environment that surrounds us.

We need to keep taking small steps to improve. Our kids are young and fragile and we need to keep their spirits up and keep them moving in the right direction.

We gave up that first goal, and bang, it seems like we lost our confidence. Our psyche is fragile right now. We need to be mentally tougher.

We have a trillion-dollar economy that is teetering on top of this fragile levee system. Shame on us if we can't act.

While a hawkish sounding ECB will protect the downside for the euro in the short term -- support looks solid back to 1.2050 -- the fragile euro-zone economy argues against any interest rate increases for sometime to come.

We?re a fragile group with very little confidence. That?s why you lose eight games in a row -- because you don?t have the confidence. The only thing that?s going to change that is winning a game.

We can't depend on the cortisone shots. There was something transitional about that period that cortisone was appropriate. We had to pull him off a career ending state of mind. It's too fragile an option and certainly a risky option.

We must protect this fragile compromise from those intent on gutting this bill.

Stupid, fragile mortals.

There are a lot of fragile suppliers out there.

We're at a critical, fragile stage here. (If) we have another hurricane season like we've had, who knows what's going to happen?

Success is unpredictable and fragile.

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing.

Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing.

We are quickly running out of time. We are making very little progress in our negotiations. The situation is fragile and not one where we can afford to be divided. What the politicians don't seem to grasp is that if we don't act wisely and quickly, our decision could lead the country into even worse chaos.

What it comes down to is that pipelines are fragile and failures will occur, ... The industry has learned to repair as fast as possible.

What it comes down to is that pipelines are fragile and failures will occur. The industry has learned to repair as fast as possible.

I find at moments I'm as fragile as glass.

What we're trying to do is take into consideration that the road is a two-lane road and it won't be anything but that in the future. Therefore, we're trying to be careful how much commercial development is along the corridor; it's a lot more fragile balance between commercial and residential than U.S. 19.

Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile

We left points on the board in the first half. We should have had the lead at the half. With a fragile team, you can't do that. A halftime lead is an important thing.

It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.

The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.

Reality is a fragile thing.

Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

We're not as concerned about the rain as we are about that tidal surge. We don't know how fragile those levees really are.

We're real fragile now. We're working hard. We've just got to get our confidence up.

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Currently only the Unites States is against the new resolution, which is actually the best possible compromise among UN members and reflects a fragile balance of all members' concerns.

What is fragile so often is confidence, and that's the thing. Prior to the Olympic break we really thought we had that swagger back, that we were going to find a way. We will beat you 6-5. There was, I thought, a real confidence about us. Then we take the break and we come back and it's 14-4 against in two games on home ice against teams that are chasing us. So that's the concern: that it is a fragile situation, and the only way to get through it is to be mentally tough about it. We have to stick together as a team.

Earth Day is an occasion to reflect on what we can do to make our fragile world a cleaner, healthier, safer place to live.

Commercial success will depend to a significant extent on adequate export arrangements. Time is short, and optimism is a fragile commodity.

At the end of the day, I think the economy really isn't fragile at all.

The winds must be in limits at that point to not risk damage to the vehicle during its most fragile point in the flight.

Islander East insists on a pipeline route that travels through some of the most precious and fragile natural resource areas of Long Island Sound,

The soul is both the most fragile and most resilient thing about you; a healthy soul is what holds you together when your world falls apart. Since you will carry your soul into eternity, it's worth checking up on it at least as often as your teeth.

The situation is disappointing and of deep concern. We're moving into the peak season for freight and, knowing how fragile our system is, it is very important for everybody to be cooperating and working together.

Anna Magnani, Sophia Loren, Meryl Streep - I love actresses that are strong and fragile at the same time. They bring complexity to their roles.

It would seem we die on a daily bases. As humans we stay awake a certain period of time, until our bodies weaken and our minds become fragile than we sleep to wake into our deaths all over again.It is true "Practice makes perfect" .

very weak and very fragile ... he wasn't the same person that left Pennsylvania in March.

There is some risk in focusing too intently on the characteristics of individual bridges and in doing so overlooking the larger context. Vermont's extraordinary villages and countryside create that context, a colorful blending of natural and cultural resources. A great many of Vermont's bridges, even those that can be called ordinary by engineering standards, are distinctive pieces of this varied but fragile landscape. Many contribute to vistas along important river corridors; others frame entrances to village centers or physically and visually join urban neighborhoods; still others define form and space in unusual ways; some simply mark places for travelers to pause on winding roads that disappear among the hills." ()

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 the result? A very weak and fragile position.

To me, being creative is a very fragile thing, and somehow I've always felt the need to be very protective of that.

To be honest, my partner Natasha is my inspiration. She is who I reference when searching for my role. I don't emulate what she does, but her interpretation of Giselle is so fragile and sensitive and so tender. It constantly inspires me. And I feel like it's the other way around. We have a great rapport together.

We could very easily lose the fragile lead we now have if we don't make the critical investments right now. Everyone else is doing it.