Frail Quotes - Page 6

• Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.

  Norman Mailer

  Opportunity, Power Of Words, Khomeini

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• Cheat me not with time,
  with the dull ache of flesh,
  for all flesh turns,
  even the loveliest
  ankle and frail thigh,
  to bitterest dust.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Time, Dust, Ankles

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.287, New Directions Publishing

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• But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.

  Edmund Spenser

  Fashion, Heart, Angel

  Edmund Spenser (1859). “Poetical Works”, p.218

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• Should poor souls fear a shade or night,
  Who came sure from a sea of light?
  Or since those drops are all sent back
  So sure to thee, that none doth lack,
  Why should frail flesh doubt any more
  That what God takes, He'll not restore?

  Henry Vaughan

  Fear, Night, Light

  Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis Lyte (1871). “The Poetical Works of Herbert and Vaughan: With a Memoir”, p.266

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• Let us become thoroughly sensible of the weakness, blindness, and narrow limits of human reason: Let us duly consider its uncertainty and endless contrarieties, even in subjects of common life and practice.... When these topics are displayed in their full light, as they are by some philosophers and almost all divines; who can retain such confidence in this frail faculty of reason as to pay any regard to its determinations in points so sublime, so abstruse, so remote from common life and experience?

  David Hume

  Determination, Practice, Light

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.4014, Delphi Classics

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• Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated.

  Naomi Klein

  Stress, Cities, Numbers

  Naomi Klein (2014). “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism”, p.436, Penguin UK

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• Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.

  Henry Fielding

  Support, Vices, Insult

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• Digan lo que digan sobre el resto de su presidencia, incluida su insensible respuesta al Katrina y una guerra emprendida en Irak con falsos pretextos, Bush conectó con los estadounidenses tras el 11-S porque parecía tan frágil e implacable como nos sentíamos nosotros.

  Ron Fournier

  Guerra, Iraq, Secuelas

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• I grabbed Aunt Prue's tiny hand, her fingers as small as bare twigs in winter. I closed my eyes and took her other hand, twisting my strong fingers together with her frail ones. I rested my forehead against our hands and closed my eyes. I imagined lifting my head up and seeing her smiling, the tape and tubes gone. I wondered if wishing was the same thing as praying. If hoping for something badly enough could make it happen.

  Kami García

  Strong, Eye, Winter

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• What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Horse, Voice, Bars

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• When you grow up", I said, "do you ever stop feeling little and weak?" "No," she says. "There's always a little frail and tiny thing inside, no matter how grown-up you are.

  David Almond

  Growing Up, Feelings, Tiny Things

  David Almond (2013). “My Name is Mina”, p.151, Hachette UK

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• I’m cold,' Snowden said softly, 'I’m cold.' 'You’re going to be all right, kid,' Yossarian reassured him with a grin. 'You’re going to be all right.' 'I’m cold,' Snowden said again in a frail, childlike voice. 'I’m cold.' 'There, there,' Yossarian said, because he did not know what else to say. 'There, there.' 'I’m cold,' Snowden whimpered. 'I’m cold.' 'There, there. There, there.

  Joseph Heller

  Kids, Voice, Cold

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.563, Simon and Schuster

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• What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow. What are brief? today and tomorrow. What are frail? spring blossoms and youth. What are deep? the ocean and truth.

  Christina Rossetti

  Spring, Ocean, Sea

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.319, Delphi Classics

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• IAGO: La que siempre fue bella y nunca orgullosa, la que tenía lengua a voluntad y nunca fue ruidosa, la que nunca careció de oro y nunca fue alegre, la que huyó de su deseo y sin embargo dijo "Ahora puedo", la que estando enojada, su venganza cercana, hizo que su mal se detuviera y su disgusto volara, la que en sabiduría nunca fue tan frágil para cambiar la cabeza del bacalao por la cola del salmón; Aquella que podia pensar y nunca revelar su mente, Ver pretendientes siguiendola y no mirar detras, Ella era un astuta, si alguna vez tal astuta fue,-- DESDEMONA: ¿Para hacer qué? IAGO: Para amamantar tontos y hacer crónicas de cerveza pequeña.

  William Shakespeare

  Revenge, Beer, Gay

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 1, l. 148

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• How come we've got these bodies? They are frail supports for what we feel. There are times I get so hemmed in by my arms and legs I look forward to getting past them. As though death will set me free like a traveling cloud... I'll be out there as a piece of the endless body of the world feeling pleasures so much larger than skin and bones and blood.

  Louise Erdrich

  Past, Clouds, Blood

  Louise Erdrich (2010). “Love Medicine”, p.218, Odyssey Editions

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• Las cosas que amaba eran muy frágiles. Muy frágiles. Yo no lo sabía. Pensé que eran indestructibles. No lo eran.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Knows, Indestructible, Fragile

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• I like the strings. I always have. Because that's how it feels. But the strings make pain seem more fatal than it is, I think. We're not as frail as the strings would make us believe. And I like the grass, too. The grass got me to you, helped me to imagine you as an actual person. But we're not different sprouts from the same plant. I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well – but never quite perfectly, you know?

  John Green

  Dolor, Creer, Pensar

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.301, A&C Black

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• She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her.

  Alice Hoffman

  One Day, Each Day, Littles

  Alice Hoffman (2010). “Green Angel”, p.39, Scholastic Inc.

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• There is a balance, a kind of standoff between the time continuum and the human entity, our frail bundle of soma and psyche. We eventually succumb to time, it's true, but time depends on us. We carry it in our muscles and genes, pass it on to the next set of time-factoring creatures, our brown-eyed daughters and jug-eared sons, or how would the world keep going. Never mind the time theorists, the cesium devices that measure the life and death of the smallest silvery trillionth of a second.... We were the only crucial clocks, our minds and bodies, way stations for the distribution of time.

  Don DeLillo

  Daughter, Time, Son

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.232, Pan Macmillan

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• Nosotros, frágiles seres humanos, somos a la vez capaces del mayor bien y, al mismo tiempo, capaces del mayor mal. El cambio sólo se producirá cuando cada uno de nosotros emprenda la lucha diaria para ser más indulgente, compasivo, cariñoso y, sobre todo, alegre, sabiendo que, por algún milagro de la gracia, podemos cambiar como pueden cambiar también quienes nos rodean.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Time, Struggle, Knowledge

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• El corazón es el lugar donde vivimos nuestras pasiones. Es frágil y se rompe con facilidad, pero es maravillosamente resistente. No tiene sentido intentar engañar al corazón. Depende de nuestra honestidad para sobrevivir.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Amor, Romanticismo, Honestidad

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• The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man.

  Matthew Henry

  Men, Fickle, Free Will

  Matthew Henry, J.B Williams (1828). “Exposition of the Old and New Testament”, p.966

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• Cats, as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by the fact that in ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods. This makes them prone to set themselves up as critics and censors of the frail and erring human beings whose lot they share.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Cat, Egypt, Class

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• Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.

  Aristófanes

  Dream, Race, Darkness

  Aristophanes (2012). “The Birds”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• La naturaleza requiere su tiempo de preservación, al que forzosamente, yo, su frágil hijo entre mis hermanos mortales, debo prestar mi asistencia.

  William Shakespeare

  Health, Son, Giving

  William Shakespeare (2008). "El Shakespeare de Oxford: King Henry VIII: or All is True", p.154, OUP Oxford

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