#fragile

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#also #book #books #clumsy #creature

I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again. ↗

— Tracey Emin

#anything #come #fragile #got #i

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#culture #cultures #destroy #force #fragile

Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble. ↗

— Paul Bremer

#fix #fragile #gets #money #one thing

You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#fragile #how #idea #no idea #self-worth

The Chinese banking system is built on quicksand and that's the one thing a lot of people don't realize. Everybody seems to think it is a free and clear open checkbook. It's not. The banking system in China is extremely fragile. ↗

— James Chanos

#banking system #built #china #chinese #clear

Life is fragile. We're not guaranteed a tomorrow so give it everything you've got. ↗

— Tim Cook

#fragile #give #got #guaranteed #life

The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile. ↗

— Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

#fragile #instrument #less #making #nations

If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a tremendous concentration of donor interest in countries that are seen as particularly fragile - but it becomes harder to mobilise money for sub-Saharan, plain poor countries. ↗

— Helen Clark

#been #concentration #countries #create #currently

I do not want to impose additional taxes on the employers at a time when our economy is very fragile and we want to encourage them to hire. ↗

— Susan Collins

#economy #employers #encourage #fragile #hire