#frail

The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from. ↗

— John Still

#hang #history #memories #men #thread

The Congresswoman was depressed by the fact that a woman of her standing could no longer count on making it to the rest room "in time" during the extensive rehabilitation that followed her shooting. Her husband, commander of a space shuttle crew, encouraged her by identifying with her limitation. Even revered astronauts, he revealed, have bodily limits and have to rely on Huggies during extended launch exercises. ↗

— Gabrielle Giffords

#frailty #limitations #pride #weakness #courage

We're all so damned fragile. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#fragility #human-frailties #change

And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind. ↗

— Thomas Shadwell

#mind #noblest #wit

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