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Tag Name "Fragile" (370)

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Dogs, bless them, operate on the premise that human beings are fragile and require incessant applications of affection and reassurance. The random lick of a hand and the furry chin draped over the instep are calculated to let the shaky owner know that a friend is nearby.
Mary McGrory
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Crashing into the trembling void Stretching my hand to you Losing myself to frigid regret Is this fragile love A way To say Good-bye
Maggie Stiefvater
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[Afghanistan and Iraq] are still countries that are fragile enough that we're gonna have to partner with them in some way.
Barack Obama
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The world looks marvelous from up here, so peaceful, so wonderful and so fragile. Everybody, all of us down there, not only in Israel, have to keep it clean and good.
Ilan Ramon
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The human heart was such a complex organ, fragile and sturdy all at once.
Susan Wiggs
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I stare at her collarbone that's framed with lace, the hollow of her throat, her shoulders that rise with each rise with the weight of her next breath. We're fragile things. Our bones show through our skin. What would any god want with us?
Lauren DeStefano
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
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Aquamarines grew with emeralds, Claire told me. But emeralds were fragile and always broke into smaller pieces, while aquamarines were stronger, grew in huge crystals without any trouble, so they weren't worth as much. It was the emerald that didn't break that was the really valuable thing.
Janet Fitch
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Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites.
Jim Butcher
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Some people are as fragile as butterflies and sensitive and it’s your responsibility not to destroy them. Just because you can
Marisha Pessl
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Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.
Edna Buchanan
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Loving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are - bundles of brittle bones and vulnerable flesh, breeding grounds for billions of deadly germs and horrible diseases.
Barbara Mertz
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
Jorge Luis Borges
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You realize that life is short and fragile and when you are facing walls of water, you understand your own mortality can change and how quickly things could change.
Larry Ellison
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And may my bronze name / touch always her thousand fingers / grow brighter with her weeping / until I am fixed like a galaxy / and memorized / in her secret and fragile skies.
Leonard Cohen
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I broke something and realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is.
Andy Warhol
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Comedy writers have the most fragile egos.
Mindy Kaling
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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.
Virginia Knauer
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Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence, through what we do, say... how we enjoy ourselves... Yet it is an illusion that is constantly being undermined by change and death.
Victoria Finlay
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I had this almost Dickensian look. I was quite fragile.
Rod Stewart
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Snow always inspires such awe in me. Just consider one tiny snowflake alone, so delicate, so fragile, so ethereal. And yet, let a billion of them come together through the majestic force of nature, they can screw up a whole city.
Betty White
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I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.
Taylor Swift
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Learn to respect this sacred moment of birth, as fragile, as fleeting, as elusive as dawn.
Frederick Leboyer
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It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.
Neil Gaiman
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