When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.
We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.
The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.
Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense of self is so frail and delicate a bud, that the only thing stopping it from being swallowed whole by the US is an English lady in a funny hat.
If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space between is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower.
I got hit in the face with a gun. I'm not very fragile at all. It makes me think maybe things would be easier if I were terribly frail and fragile somehow.
The censorship method. . . is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.
Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.
When the thunder rumbles, Now the age of gold is dead. When the dreams we've clung to Trying to stay young, Have left us parched and old instead. When my courage crumbles, When I feel confused and frail, When my spirit falters on decaying altars And my illusions fail -- I go on right then. I go on again. I go on to say I will celebrate another day. I go on. If tomorrow tumbles And everything I love is gone, I will face regret all my days, and yet I will still go on.
Life is a frail moth flying Caught in the web of the years that pass.
Beauty is a frail good.
Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.
Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion. . . faith in the power of words.
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.
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
Healing the self means committing ourselves to a wholehearted willingness to be what and how we are-beings frail and fragile, strong and passionate, neurotic and balanced, diseased and whole, partial and complete, stingy and generous, twisted and straight, storm-tossed and quiescent, bound and free.
All men are frail; but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself.
We are all men, feeble, frail, and apt to faint.
Who to a woman trusts his peace of mind, Trusts a frail bark, with a tempestuous wind.
It's not just about life, of course; it's about healthy life. Getting frail and miserable and dependent is no fun, whether or not dying may be fun.
