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

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

The Australian economy is resilient, but business and consumer confidence is fragile.
Julie Bishop

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

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
Sallust

The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.
Julia Gillard

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
Sallust

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

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
Marcel Proust

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

The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

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

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.
Ayrton Senna

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.
James Broughton

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

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
Logan Pearsall Smith

We have to remember that no matter how much hardship we go through in our life, there is always going to be that fragile place in our heart.
Angie Martinez

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.
Maurice Strong

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
Adlai E. Stevenson

When we speak the word "life," it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
Antonin Artaud