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Frail Quotes

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An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for themselves. Our programs have simply not kept pace with these societal changes.
Kim Campbell

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
Victor Hugo

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.
Frances Rodman

Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.
Leslie Fiedler

How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.
Sylvia Plath

I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches.
Helen Suzman

I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now.
Liam Neeson

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein

My sister used to say I had a frail chest and she 'd beat me up all the time.
Michael Clarke Duncan

People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with.
Bruce Campbell

The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
Jacques Derrida

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
Max Lerner

The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.
Giotto di Bondone

The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.
Corazon Aquino

The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.
John Still






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