Frail Quotes - Page 5

• Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.

  Diane Johnson

  Brave Person, Persons, Settings

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• A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all, With watching from the dim verge of the time What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous past, Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for man.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wise, Heart, Character

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal”, p.81

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• Though you are weak and frail, though you are poor and helpless, God does not despise you; but would glorify your being with His own, and raise you to fellowship with Himself.

  George C. Lorimer

  Doe, Fellowship, Poor

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 247), 1895.

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• A number of frail girls... prisoners in the top room of a circular tower, embroidering a kind of tapestry which spilled out the slit windows and into a void, seeking hopelessly to fill the void: for all the other buildings and creatures, all the waves, ships and forests of the earth were contained in this tapestry, and the tapestry was the world.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Girl, Numbers, Towers

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.9, Penguin

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• En el barrio judío [Judengasse] nací y me eduqué; hasta los quince años intentaron inculcarme a golpes el Talmud. Mis profesores eran seres inhumanos [Unmenschen], mis compañeros eran malas compañías que me inducían al pecado secreto; mi cuerpo era frágil, mi espíritu crudo.

  Moisés Hess

  Profesor, Años, Secreto

  "Diario de Hess" por Moses Hess, 16 de septiembre de 1836.

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• Nunca había podido creer que Dios nos diera a nosotros, pobres y frágiles humanos, una sola oportunidad de salir adelante, que nos destinara a una especie de infierno por haber fracasado durante una experiencia de la vida mortal. ... Así que los conceptos de karma y reencarnación tenían un sentido lógico para mí.

  Jane Goodall

  Karma, Creer, Dar

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• Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Together, Sticks

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• When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.

  Margaret Deland

  Bombshells, Letters, Flats

  Margaret Deland (2010). “Around Old Chester”, p.57, Wildside Press LLC

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• Lo! while we are gazing, in swifter haste
  Stream down the snows, till the air is white,
  As, myriads by myriads madly chased,
  They fling themselves from their shadowy height.
  The fair, frail creatures of middle sky,
  What speed they make, with their grave so nigh;
  Flake after flake,
  To lie in the dark and silent lake!

  William C. Bryant

  Lying, Dark, Lakes

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• It has been said that men carry on a kind of coasting trade with religion. In the voyage of life, they profess to be in search of heaven, but take care not to venture so far in their approximations to it, as entirely to lose sight of the earth; and should their frail vessel be in danger of shipwreck, they will gladly throw their darling vices overboard, as other mariners their treasures, only to fish them up again when the storm is over.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Sight, Heaven

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.97

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• It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be sure to topple over.

  Hosea Ballou

  Foundation, Building, Vain

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• When with care we have raised an imaginary treasure of happiness, we find at last that the materials of the structure are frail and perishing, and the foundation itself is laid in the sand.

  Samuel Rogers

  Foundation, Treasure, Care

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• La gloria de las riquezas y de la belleza es frágil y transitoria; la virtud permanece brillante y eterna.
  [Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis; virtus clara aeternaque habetur].

  Sallust

  Riches, Virtue, Glory

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• Our thoughts are boundless, though our frames are frail,
  Our souls immortal, though our limbs decay;
  Though darken'd in this poor life by a veil
  Of suffering, dying matter, we shall play
  In truth's eternal sunbeams; on the way
  To heaven's high capitol our cars shall roll;
  The temple of the Power whom all obey,
  That is the mark we tend to, for the soul
  Can take no lower flight, and seek no meaner goal.

  James Gates Percival

  Play, Goal, Car

  James Gates Percival (1821). “Poems by James G. Percival ...”, p.322

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• La presunción es nuestro mal natural y original. La más vulnerable y frágil de todas las criaturas es el hombre, y al mismo tiempo la más arrogante.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hombres, Auto, Arrogancia

  Michel de Montaigne (1973). "Selecciones de los Ensayos", Harlan Davidson

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• When this immediate evil power has been defeated, we shall not yet have won the long battle with the elemental barbarities. Another Hitler, it may be an invisible adversary, will attempt, again, and yet again, to destroy our frail civilization. Is it true, I wonder, that the only way to escape a war is to be in it? When one is a part of an actuality does the imagination find a release?

  Ellen Glasgow

  War, Civilization, Evil

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• Qué veo en el Dios de esa secta infame sino un ser inconsecuente y bárbaro, hoy creador de un mundo de destrucción del que mañana se arrepiente; qué veo allí sino un ser frágil incapaz para siempre de doblegar al hombre y obligarle a doblar la rodilla. Esta criatura, aunque emanada de él, lo domina, sabe cómo ofenderlo y merecer así tormentos eternamente. ¡Qué débil es este Dios!

  Marqués de Sade

  Dios, Religioso, Hombres

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• Me identifico con alguien cuya vida se desmorona y hace lo que puede para salir adelante, utilizando el humor para sobrevivir. Backstrom lleva su corazón en la manga y su vida se está desmoronando... Prefiero pasar el rato con esa persona que con un hábil detective de procedimiento que tiene todas las respuestas... es humano, es frágil, es interesante.

  Rainn Wilson

  Vida, Otoño, Corazón

  "Rainn Wilson te hará descojonarte con 'Backstrom'", por Leora Arnowitz, www.foxnews.com. 21 de enero de 2015.

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• La fama que se basa en la riqueza o la belleza es algo frágil y efímero; pero la virtud brilla durante siglos con un lustre inmarcesible.

  Sallust

  Beauty, Shining, Age

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• La vida es algo frágil y transitorio, pero se le ha dado un propósito más elevado y dignidad a través de la revelación de la Enseñanza de Dios a Israel, y la consiguiente dedicación de todo un pueblo al servicio de Dios.

  Joseph Hertz

  Enseñanza, Dedicación, Israel

  "The Authorised Daily Prayer Book". Libro de Joseph Hertz, Servicio de la mañana: Preliminares (p. 28),

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• There is nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion by authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass.

  Philip Sidney

  Strong, Glasses, Opinion

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). "Aforismos de Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks", p.2

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• Y detrás de sus frágiles tabiques, las mujeres de negocios yacen y se remojan, Viendo a través del tragaluz con corrientes de aire Nubes voladoras y humo de ferrocarril. Descansad allí, pobres desamparados, Regodead vuestra soledad en el calor, ¡Demasiado pronto el pequeño desayuno, el trolebús y la calle ventosa!

  John Betjeman

  Loneliness, Lying, Clouds

  John Betjeman, “Business Girls”

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• God grant that by my persevering labours I may bring a little stone to the frail and ill-assured edifice of our knowledge of those deep mysteries of Life and Death where all our intellects have so lamentably failed.

  Louis Pasteur

  Life And Death, May, Stones

  "The Life of Pasteur" published by René Vallery-Radot, translated by Mrs. R. L. Devonshire, (p. 114), 1902.

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• The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Сrown. It may be frail - its roof may shake - the wind may blow through it - the storm may enter - the rain may enter - but the King of England cannot enter.

  William Pitt, I Conde de Chatham

  Kings, Rain, Blow

  William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham's speech on the Excise Bill in the House of Commons (March 1763), as quoted in Lord Brougham "Historical Sketches of Statesmen Who Flourished in the Time of George III, Volume I" (p. 42), 1839.

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• Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.

  Thomas Overbury

  Women, Two, Wit

  Sir Thomas Overbury (1756). “The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose of Sir Thomas Overbury, with Memoirs of His Life. The Tenth Edition”, p.239

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