Frail Quotes

I`d like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I`d need building up, though he`s very frail now.

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.

(on Audrey Hepburn) She`s a tomboy and a fine comedienne. You`d never think of her being able to do my type of comedy. But she can. She has great energy, frail as she looks. But, well, she`s so beautiful, so ethereal, it would be sacrilege to put her through it.

I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.

The fatigue of body and mind has almost unnerved this old frame, and unfitted me to endure the burdens which Providence calls upon me to bear. I find as I grow old I grow more peevish and cannot bear so much contradiction, therefore I am called uncharitable and severe. No matter -- this frail life will soon be over.

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 crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man`s frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

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.

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein.

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter, the rain may enter -- but the King of England cannot enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!

She was a frail, beautiful, unassuming woman ... She always had a quiet insistence on the rightness of what she was doing.

Whoever says artists can`t deal with corporate pressures because they have frail minds, is missing out on the potential the artistic mind has to boost company morale and increase productivity. Most artists would just as soon quit once they become conscious of their exploitation and that is a sign of strength not weakness.