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  • Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush.

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

    "James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett of Metallica Discuss Their 1997 Album, 'Re-Load'". The Guitar World Interview, www.guitarworld.com. December, 1997.
  • Ideas are the most fragile things in the world, and if you do not write them down, they will be lost forever.

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

  • The framers knew that liberty is a fragile thing, and so should we.

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

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.

    Thinking   Debt   Moral  
    Neil Gaiman (2009). “Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.13, Harper Collins
  • Glad it was you and not me," Shane said, and offered Myrin a hand up. "Any brain damage?" "Since the bullet actually passed through his brain, then yes, idiot boy, there's certainly brain damage," Oliver said. "It will pass. His brain's the least fragile thing about him." "You say the nicest things," Myrin said. He was slurring his words, and he threw an arm around Oliver's neck. "Marry me.

    Boys   Hands Up   Brain  
  • Between us, and Hell or Heaven, there is only life between the two, which is the most fragile thing in the world. Variant: Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

    Life   Two   Heaven  
  • 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.

  • True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

  • We save our lives in such unlikely ways.

    Neil Gaiman (2010). “Fragile Things”, p.177, Hachette UK
  • Sometimes big things happen, and they echo. Those echoes crash across worlds. They are the ripples in the fabric of things. Often they manifest as storms. Reality is a fragile thing, after all.

    Reality   Echoes   Storm  
  • There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out between lovers and enemies, strangers and friends. But all are fragile things made of just twenty-six letters arranged and re-arranged to form tales and imaginings which will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul.

  • There's no time to hold grudges when you've seen how fragile things can really be.

  • Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing.

    "Memory's Future". Interview with William Calvin, www.psychologytoday.com. March 1, 2001.
  • Reality is a fragile thing.

  • There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

    Love   Dream   Heart  
    Neil Gaiman (2009). “Selections from Fragile Things, Volume One: 4 Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.4, Harper Collins
  • Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.

    Dream   Heart   May  
    Neil Gaiman (2010). “Fragile Things”, p.21, Hachette UK
  • A coach has to worry not so much about creating motivation, esprit de corps, as about destroying it. The true competitor has it; he wouldn't be a star if he didn't. So you have to mold all these egos together and make sure in your selection of people that you don't destroy the feeling of togetherness or morale, because it is a fragile thing.

  • Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

    Labor Day Address at Liberty State Park, delivered 1 September 1980, Jersey City, New Jersey
  • There are many things I don't know, but quite a few I do. I know you can't be lost if you know where you are. I know that life is full of precious and fragile things, and not all of them are pretty. I know that the sun follows the moon and makes days, one after another. Time passes. The world turns, and we turn with it, and though we can never go back to the beginning, sometimes, we can start again.

    Moon   World   Sun  
  • Self-esteem and identity are very fragile things. I think a lot of times, those are the motivations for why people do take their own lives - not being seen, not being recognized, not being loved, not feeling supported, not feeling understood.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

  • People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.

    Anger   Fighting   Names  
  • Trust is a fragile thing. Once earned, it affords us tremendous freedom. But once trust is lost, it can be impossible to recover. Of course the truth is, we never know who we can trust. Those we're closest to can betray us, and total strangers can come to our rescue. In the end, most people decide to trust only themselves. It really is the simplest way to keep from getting burned.

    Life   Happy   People  
  • Consumer confidence in an industry can be a very fragile thing. It only takes a few builders who promise but don't deliver, who cheat rather than perform, who delay until the warranty expires rather than repair, to damage the reputation of an entire industry.

    Promise   Damage   Delay  
  • And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thought for the wonder of later years, and tell of happening that are gone clean away, and be a voice for us out of the dark of time, and save many a fragile thing from the pounding of heavy ages; or carry to us, over the rolling centuries, even a song from lips long dead on forgotten hills.

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

    May Sarton (2014). “I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography”, p.46, Open Road Media
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