#fragile

When do you know it's time to say, 'OK, that's it?' That is the most difficult part of any decision like that because you don't want to throw the 'R' word out there. I've mentioned it a couple times, but not in the sense that I'm doing it. That word is very fragile. We'll see. ↗

— Jim Thome

#because #couple #couple times #decision #difficult

Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#balance #established #fragile #human #humans

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet. ↗

— Alice Walker

#being #being used #bombs #contributes #fragile

He didn't want to tell his son what to do, but told me to write the president a letter. I didn't name a country, but there are many countries we have a fragile relationship with. ↗

— George Herbert Walker

#country #fragile #his #i #letter

I don't talk like House, or walk like him. I certainly don't think like him. I don't like to think for more than 15 minutes at a stretch actually; I am a fragile flower. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#actually #am #certainly #flower #fragile

Civilization is hideously fragile and there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. ↗

— Carrie P. Snow

#between #civilization #coat #fragile #hideously

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing. ↗

— Randolph Bourne

#fragile #friendships #handling #much #other

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal. ↗

— Sallust

#eternal #fame #fleeting #fragile #glorious

Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes. ↗

— Paul Samuelson

#authoritarian #broad #come #democracies #fragile

A lot of guys have muscles. A lot of strong men in this world. I think it's important to show that even under all this strength there's a fragile side, a side that can be affected. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#even #fragile #guys #i #i think