Fragile Quotes - page 2

No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and exploitation... We have to learn to cherish this earth and cherish it as something that's fragile, that's only one, it's all we have... We have to use our scientific knowledge to correct the dangers that have come from science and technology. (Margaret Mead)
The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go very quickly. View quote
Margaret Atwood
All good things in life are fragile and easily lost. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
I think... I would rather recollect a life misspent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt. View quote
Neil Gaiman
We hear every damn day about how fragile our country is - on the brink of catastrophe - torn by polarizing hate and how it's a shame that we can't work together to get things done, but the truth is we do. We work together to get things done every damn day! View quote
Jon Stewart
Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
What they had between them was still as fragile as a flickering candle flame, as delicate as eggshell - and he knew that if it shattered, if he somehow let it break and be destroyed, something inside him would shatter too, something that could never be fixed. View quote
Cassandra Clare
You may hear people say that submarines have done away with the battleship, and that aircraft have annulled the mastery of the sea. That is what our pessimists say. But do you imagine that the clumsy submarine or the fragile aeroplane is really the last word of science? View quote
John Buchan
I have respect for mother nature's methods of robustness (billions of years allow most of what is fragile to break); classical thought is more robust (in its respect for the unknown, the epistemic humility) than the modern post-Enlightenment naïve pseudoscientific autism. Thus my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness and philistinism. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much. (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
As far as vocal preparation goes, it's really an interesting thing for such a fragile instrument and using it properly is like walking a tightrope. I have learned not to do extensive warm-ups. It's really more of a cerebral mind-body connection Zen hippy thing, just knowing your body and figuring out if I do that then I will be able to speak tomorrow. View quote
Davey Havok
Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In love-ness" is fragile for it is woven only with the gossamer threads of beauty. It seems to me absurd to talk about "happy" and "unhappy" marriages. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we don't really matter to it. View quote
Neil Strauss
We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth. View quote
Maurice Strong
Like fragile ice anger passes away in time. View quote
Ovid
You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is. View quote
Elia Kazan
What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel. View quote
Dmitri Shostakovich
Stop and consider! life is but a day; A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way From a tree's summit. View quote
John Keats
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. View quote
Mohamed El-Erian
The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence. (Mohamed El-Erian)
Love turns a heart to crystal... Much more valuable, but much more fragile. View quote
Neal Shusterman
I can see hope inside it." Rachel ran her fingers over the ceramic designs. "So fragile. View quote
Rick Riordan
Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism. View quote
Sam Shepard
Life goes on with fragile normalcy. View quote
Sara Gruen