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Letter "F" » fragile
«Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.»
«Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling»
Author: Felix Frankfurter
(Jurist)
| About:
Reason
| Keywords:
cruelty, fragile, institutionalize, institutionalized, medium, unbridled, undisciplined
«I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly, Ah! I didn't know, I held opportunity.»
«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.»
Author: Shirley Bassey
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
afraid, fragile, strong, successful, terribly
«Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.»
«Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.»
«I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.»
Author: Tennessee Williams
| About:
Character
| Keywords:
characters, desperate, fragile, frightened, hysteria, identify, reach out, seemingly, The characters, verge, verges
«I think language does bring us together. Fragile and misleading as it is, it's the best communication we've got, and poetry is language at its most intense and potentially fulfilling. Poems do bring people together.»
Author: William Stafford
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communication, fragile, fulfilling, Good poem, intense, mislead, misleading, misleads, poems, potentially
«I think every big town should contain artificial waterfalls that people can descend in very fragile canoes, and they should contain bathing pools full of mechanical sharks. Any person found advocating a preventive war should be condemned to two hours»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
advocating, bathing, Big Town, canoe, canoes, condemned, descend, fragile, pools, preventive, Preventives, preventive war, sharking, sharks, waterfall, waterfalls
«I've decided life is too fragile to finish a book I dislike just because it cost $16.95 and everyone else loved it. Or eat a fried egg with a broken yolk (which I hate) when the dog would leap over the St. Louis Arch for it.»
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