Fragile Quotations | Page 2

Stop and consider! life is but a day; A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way From a tree's summit; a poor Indian's sleep While his boat hastens to the monstrous steep Of Montmorenci

A crash like this is a glaring reminder of how fragile our system is and how there is no back up. We're at near-gridlock at every single rush hour. When we get a major incident like this, we're at a complete standstill.

Both teams are fragile going into this game. The confidence level is fragile.

But the market is fragile and confidence is fragile.

One has to be fully aware of the fact that the prevailing system of arms control agreements is a complex and quite fragile structure,

Despite their cuddly appearance, rabbits are fragile creatures who require special care. Too often people buy a rabbit thinking you can put them in a cage and they'll be a great pet, which is completely wrong. Baby bunnies require significant time socializing with people every day outside their cage in order to bond with and enjoy being handled by people.

One cannot help but begin the year with the sense that uncertain times lie ahead. The world economy is in a much more fragile state.

Delta is fragile ... and it is not a good time to begin a consolidation discussion. The only time to do that is when you have leverage and strength. So that may be somewhere out in the future but that's not now.

I've been around long enough to know how fragile it can be. We need to continue to get better. We haven't proven anything yet ? not enough to start relaxing. We've got a chance ? a window of opportunity. We've got to jump through it.

That's why this is so heartbreaking for people. Experience doesn't make people invincible. It just demonstrates how fragile humans are.

As fragile as this market is, that could have really hurt. This doesn't seem bad at all.

A lot of ink is given over to mythologizing female friendships as curious, fragile relationships that are always intensely fraught. Stop reading writing that encourages this mythology.

Saying that stocks are cheap relative to an asset class that itself is really expensive -- that's a fragile comfort. To me the risk profile of the market in some ways is even higher than back in 1999. Back then people were buying because there was tremendous enthusiasm for stocks. Now they're buying them because they're turned off by the alternatives.

Right now we're a fragile team, there's no question about it. It's something we need to fix, and the only way to fix it is to win games.

Our confidence is fragile after we got outplayed in the three games at home, so maybe it was good to get out on the road.

Focus on costs and asset management clearly remains the best course, given the fragile market conditions,

There's a fragile state (for Ole Miss) between the NCAA and the NIT, and that's been true each year. A free throw here, a rebound there ... the first two years we won those games.

This compromise should be compared neither to the fragile and unsustainable status quo, nor to some idealized, universally comfortable end-state.

This economic recovery is a lot more fragile than most of us thought.

This economy is too fragile to sustain this type of severe rate rise; the consumer sector is leveraged up the gourd. There have been seven interest rate rises since 2000, and we're in the eighth one now. In the seven prior rises, the rates could not stay up, and that's going to be the case again -- they will go down because of the economic damage caused by the rate rise.

This is a critical government program that is in complete shambles. We are talking about simple, common- sense responsibility to shield American consumers from rising energy prices. Performance standards are the most successful tool we have to ease the burden on consumers and protect our increasingly fragile energy supply system, but the feds are asleep at the switch.

This is a fragile time for a team.

A fragile consensus has collapsed under the weight of the Sudan government's artful diplomacy campaign. It played chicken with the broad international community, and once again the international community drove off the road.

Your fragile mind can't have forgotten the terrifying technothriller series known 'Scorpion'. Because it features the worst hacking scenes ever broadcast in any medium.

This is exactly what the judges have feared all along. That the trial wouldn't be complete and there would be no verdict.... They knew the fragile state of his health.

This is really a disorder characterized by massive disturbances in the body's clock and in all the things the body's clock controls, ... Their clocks need to be very carefully protected, and we need to do everything we can to shore up and protect that fragile clock.

This is not what we needed to start this travel day. This is a reminder of just how fragile our transportation system is.

In May, we could see things were going from beginning to end, ... But it was a fragile system, and we had to harden it so it could handle the rigors of daily use.

Initially the rain will exacerbate an already fragile situation.

In Kenya, the food's fragile situation have affected to about 3.5 million people and in Somalia to about 1.5 million people.

I hope we do everything possible so that fragile and impaired elders are not left behind, and that they do not get pushed aside in wheelchairs with blankets covering their heads because they have expired.

Indonesia is the first to crack, due mainly to its fragile institutional framework and a general lack of credibility. But we should start to consider the scenario where what is happening in Indonesia may not be an isolated event in Asia.

If Jerry clears himself and we're able to reinstate him, that's great. But our program has moved beyond Jerry Seymour. We're too fragile as a program to hold back and wait for one individual.

Implementing alternatives to the juggernaut of development won't be easy. But the Delta's natural beauty, recreation potential, and importance for California's infrastructure and environment make it essential to find alternative futures for this important, fragile region.

Instead of undermining protections that America's coasts have long enjoyed, the Sierra Club is urging Congress and the administration to move more in the direction of Senators Nelson and Martinez. It's time to shift the national debate on offshore drilling closer to securing permanent protection for America's fragile coasts.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.

The biggest immediate worry is of another storm coming at a time when the region's infrastructure is fragile and in disarray.

Any agreements are made on very fragile ground.

You think we're fragile mentally? I don't think so at all. I mean we've got a good team and if you think we're fragile that's from you all's perspective. But we've got a good team, and we're going to fight on the road.

You think you're in the movies / And everything's so deep / But I think that you're wild / When you flash that fragile smile

Confidence is a very fragile thing, and it certainly is something that has to start with your mental approach and your ability to respond and stay focused and not allow negative thoughts to enter into your own mind. When you're successful, it's easier to expect success. All of a sudden it's not there, it becomes more of a challenge.

The Fed is very happy to see this kind of stabilization, but they're going to be worried about inflation and credit. Honestly, I think the Fed understands how fragile a position the economy is in because when you slow down this fast it sets a lot of stuff in motion. They want to get ahead of that and make sure it doesn't get worse.

The family has been made fragile in Africa because of poverty and because of AIDS.

The family is in a very fragile state right now, and I won't presume to speak for them.

I guess it would be a surprise they haven't jelled. They're fragile right now. They have a lot of good players. I think it's a matter of them coming together. Hopefully, they can get it together for their sake and turn it around.

It has taken years and years and years of applying his talent and his mental desire to just get to the major leagues. And it just shows how fragile it is. You can blow it fairly easily.

If there is a silver lining in this, it is that it may finally bring home to the American people how fragile our energy sector is and our energy infrastructure is.

If there is a silver lining in this tragic situation, it may be that our country understands how fragile our energy sector is. ... We can't just get our oil and gas from Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and the Gulf of Mexico. We need to diversify our domestic oil resources.

If you were Merlin and you had taken a young boy with a fragile build and dipped him into the cauldron of boiling juices from lizards' insides and produced a knight with the biggest, broadest sword ever seen, you wouldn't have a better miracle than Giuliani produced by 9-11,

Challenger showed how sophisticated this technology was and how fragile it was, and our dreams were tied to it.

But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her,barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my windowin one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor.She will look in at me with her thin arms extended,offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light.

This is a very fragile recovery process. It's been reliant on these low borrowing costs. If we remove them, we effectively deny the economy its support.

It's a matter of inches from us celebrating right now. That's what it all comes down to, a play here or there. That's how fragile the line of victory is.

An escalation of fighting will strike a deadly blow to thousands of extremely fragile people.

You've got an incredibly fragile link into Wellington. Having only one primary access into Wellington seems nuts. You have one big earthquake and you have no road.

The (improvement) starts with the bullpen. That is a pretty good group for us, one of the better groups we have had. And at catcher we have depth there where before it was a fragile position for us.

The flavor and physical setting of the city's culture is locked up in the vernacular wooden houses of the 19th century, ... And I fear for them now. These are fragile buildings.

The euro zone's upturn is still young and relatively fragile with significant question marks still hanging over the long-term strength of domestic demand.

The first half was a carry-over from last night. ... We've got to get over that and regroup. We're fragile right now.

And I think it was a huge mistake to put another chair at the House managers' table for Mr. Starr, and to create sort of a sideshow here which I think runs the risk of causing the Senate, this fragile bipartisanship we've been able to hold together here, you run the risk, I say very sincerely, you run the risk of shattering that, ... Face the Nation.

The truth is that while men, in our society, are encouraged to have strong egos and to function in competitive, aggressive, intellectualized modes that may indeed cause them pain, for most women the ego is like a fragile African Violet, grown in secret from a seed, carefully nursed and fertilized and sheltered from too much sun.

It's like a fragile foreign car. People break a window, but I keep the car running with chiropractors and massages. My whole style changed from drinking a couple of beers and going out to going to the hotel room and getting in the Jacuzzi. It's not as easy as it used to be. I have to be more careful. I have to plan things out in more detail. Everything's a real calculated risk now.

It's also a bad idea to walk on snowmelt where there is still two or three inches of snow because there's fragile vegetation under the snow that you don't even know is trying to grow there, ... This is true especially in higher elevations.

It's no wonder this community is as fragile as it is and is able to break like a twig under the unsteady hand of the incumbent.

It really makes you realize how fragile you are and how easily things can really go wrong on you. I'm just really starting to get over it now. I know how tough Deidra is and if anyone can do it's her. ... I think you'd be crazy not to be scared. It really comes with the territory.

It's much too early for the Fed to be thinking about hiking interest rates. It would be a very dangerous action on their part in this fragile initial stage of the recovery.

That's a challenge for our rehab specialists because our patients are more fragile and they work at a slower pace.

It was good to answer (Lake-Sumter's first inning) run. We're real fragile morale wise right now. We can't afford to get down.

It's a sign that things have bottomed out, but we're not seeing a sharp turnaround in capital spending just yet. So it's encouraging, but it doesn't suggest anything more than a relatively muted and fragile recovery.

It's a simple ordinance that the council can pass that defines what a 'high-risk' loan is and then provides counseling to those who qualify, as a way to end the many foreclosures and bankruptcies that devastate already fragile communities.

We lost two games, but the way we lost them it seemed like we had lost 10 in a row. This is a big test for us. We're still kind of - not a fragile team - but we've got a confidence thing. It all starts with a win. Sometimes that's all it takes to turn things around.

It was a sudden reminder at a very young age of how fragile life truly is.

It was a very balanced statement. Given the current fragile state of the stock market and the economy, they wanted to do nothing which might add to volatility, so they decided to say as little as possible.

It's a dichotomy something so fragile has been made into a hammer.

It may not be possible to conduct these kinds of highly charged cases in what is a very fragile and unstable environment where there is still armed conflict,

This is too important and too fragile to play games with.

I called my principal at about 5 p.m. and told her that if I was offered the position, I wouldn't be taking it in light of what has happened here with Josh. The job wasn't offered, but because of the situation with Josh, it was very clear that I couldn't leave. This is a very fragile time.

I do like silver. I love antiques. I collect Georgian glass at home. When you think about how fragile that it is and think about how long these things have lasted - some of it is 400 years old - I find the history of these things extraordinary.

Her condition is pretty fragile right now. We're concerned about it.

Because male fetuses are more fragile than female fetuses, they are more likely to be damaged.

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

There is nothing more fragile than civilization.

Comedy writers have the most fragile egos.

We're all so damned fragile.

Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites.

I speak to you. You speak to me. Is that fragile?

Confidence is a very fragile thing.

Relationships are like bubbles – they’re fragile.

It is sometimes the most fragile things that have the power to endure and become sources of strength.

I think you're a little more fragile when you're younger.

Hearts are fragile things. That's why you have to be so careful.

We save our lives in such unlikely ways.

Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.

The market has performed amazingly well. But it's incredibly fragile right now.

Everything I love about America is fragile.

I am as vulnerable and fragile as it is possible to be. I am shredded to the core. I am at the point where I am stripped bare.

There's something extremely fragile about musicians, and that's their strength.

There was a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile.