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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Beauty is a frail good.
Though hope is frail, it's hard to kill.
We are all men, feeble, frail, and apt to faint.
The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.
How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.
Women were the very devil, at the mercy of their frail strength.
And the over-all fact that you are a frail vessel full of errors.
Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.
All men are frail; but thou shouldst reckon none so frail as thyself.
Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.
Wit and woman are two frail things, and both the frailer by concurring.
The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars.
The most unhappy and frail creatures are men and yet they are the proudest.
My sister used to say I had a frail chest and she 'd beat me up all the time.
Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.
The word that scares the hell out of me is 'frail.' I don't want to be frail.
Anger is the ego's way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable.
For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.
Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.
I am frail like everyone else, and I take that into account when I talk about things.
It's extraordinary how a physical disability makes people think that somebody is frail.
My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.
Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.
I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now.
A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years.
I'm a little frail girl, but I like being tied up, blindfolded and gagged so you can't move.
Whenever I act well, my head clears. Always a bit frail I was personally, but never professionally.
Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion ... faith in the power of words.
A great solo is one that's so frail that it actually teeters on the edge of falling apart, but doesn't.
Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.
When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.
The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.
The biggest myth about aging is that we can't do anything about it. That it's a road to being decrepit, frail, and sick.
The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.
Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.
A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground.
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
I think there are spirits who are just too frail for the events life throws at them. Where do these people hide, and how do they survive?
The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.
People who sleep around to get roles are frail and scared and most likely without talent. It's their own little horror show that only they can deal with.
Since I was a kid, I've always been skinny and frail framed. I felt powerless as a child, but I always saw so much power in femininity and female sexuality.
Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.
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.
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.
People love that you're human and that we're frail and we face the same situations. Honesty tends to communicate with people better than standing up there like you have an 'S' on your chest.
In 1975, I left the burning city of Beirut for the quiet insanity of England. To say that short, frail and wispy 15-year-old me didn't fit in would be such an understatement as to be a joke.
When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always thought he was going to last longer. I knew him as being really funny, but at the same time, he had a dark side.
I'm a very strong person, and I think that's why, actually, I find it really infuriating when I read, 'She had a nervous breakdown' or 'She's not very mentally stable, just a weak, frail little creature.'
That's what people are who have that impact on us. They are ahead of their time. They can't help it. They get put into a small, frail body, and they are given a light that is much too bright for that cavity.
