Fragile Quotes

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

Life, Again, Mum

When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it's like the picked-on kid who has to become funny.
Scott Thompson

Funny, Become, Sense

I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
Ted Cruz

Liberty, Away, Child

The clever, albeit fragile, coalition against terrorism brought together by the U.S. government might be able to advance the transition from classical international law to a cosmopolitan order.
Jurgen Habermas

Government, Together, Law

If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a tremendous concentration of donor interest in countries that are seen as particularly fragile - but it becomes harder to mobilise money for sub-Saharan, plain poor countries.
Helen Clark

Money, May, Poor

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

Peace, Courage, Wisdom

Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.
Joan D. Vinge

Human, Balance, Humans

I think that most artists are leaning towards fragile idiots.
Josh Silver

Idiots, Artists, Leaning

You can't escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can't let it ruin your life. I'm actually a pretty composed person. I guess people imagine I spend my life thinking about crazy, sinister things but I don't, really. It's not like I'm trying to exorcise any demons.
Michael Shannon

Life, Crazy, Feeling

Confidence is such a fragile and precious thing.
David Duval

Confidence, Precious

The Chinese banking system is built on quicksand and that's the one thing a lot of people don't realize. Everybody seems to think it is a free and clear open checkbook. It's not. The banking system in China is extremely fragile.
James Chanos

Free, Realize, Everybody

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.
Shirley Bassey

Men, Successful, Strong

Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex.
Jerry Rubin

Women, Men, Strong

The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council.
David Petraeus

Difficult, Progress, Next

Fragile egos are put on the line every day.
Mary Lou Retton

Put, Line, Egos

The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.
Gary Miller

Process, United, Industry

Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.
Alistair Darling

Yes, Cut, Global

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
Randolph Bourne

Precious, Handling, Require

It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand.
Mark Rydell

Men, Strong, Live

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

The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches.
Doug Collins

Today, Tough, Grow

Self confidence for me is a fragile fleece.
Sylvia Kristel

Confidence, Self

I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile.
Christina Hoff Sommers

Children, Help, Healthy

Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.
Paul Bremer

Money, Try, Else

When do you know it's time to say, 'OK, that's it?' That is the most difficult part of any decision like that because you don't want to throw the 'R' word out there. I've mentioned it a couple times, but not in the sense that I'm doing it. That word is very fragile. We'll see.
Jim Thome

Time, Decision, Sense

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.
Alberto Fujimori

Fashion, Problems, Weak

The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence.
Mohamed El-Erian

Business, Confidence, Loss

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.
Mohamed El-Erian

Hard, Country, Follow

It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing? Am I any good? Will I ever work again?' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.
Jacqueline McKenzie

Work, Good, God

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.
Susan Collins

Time, Economy, Encourage

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