#frail

God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't. ↗

— Ava Gardner

#flaws #forgiveness #human-frailties #forgiveness

...the strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires... ↗

— John Geddes

#frailty #weights #wires #wisdom #wisdom-inspirational

Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man? ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#humanity #humility #leadership #power #leadership

The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#love #love

We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#character #falliability #flaws #frailty #humanity

How frail the human heart must be -- a mirrored pool of thought. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#human-heart #thought #journalism

An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for themselves. Our programs have simply not kept pace with these societal changes. ↗

— Kim Campbell

#care #changes #children #demands #family

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#bent #bow #cannot #frailty #human

The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#breakdown #case #edge #experience #frail

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#cannot #creation #frailty #god #his