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The brittle is easy to shatter. -- Laozi
Strength ebbed and flowed, but brittle would break. -- Shelley Noble
Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle. -- Cormac McCarthy
While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don't bend. -- Jimmy Buffett
There's something brittle in me that will break before it bends. -- Mark Lawrence
Everyone's the anti-Teddy Roosevelt. Speak loudly and carry a brittle twig. -- Alec Sulkin
Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless. -- Chuck Palahniuk
This earthly existence of ours is more brittle that the glass bangles that ladies wear. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of Americas brittle and mutating id. -- John Burdett
Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id. -- John Burdett
Meditation... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass. -- Tom Robbins
Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity. -- Billy Sunday
Tomorrow will come and today will pass, / But the hearts of the young are brittle as glass. -- Phyllis McGinley
But happiness is brittle, and if men and circumstances don't destroy it, it is threatened by ghosts. -- Marguerite Yourcenar
Broken things are powerful."Things about to break are stronger still.The last shot from the brittle bow is truest. -- Eugene McCarthy
Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it. -- lecrae
And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame. -- Charlotte Bronte
Toward the end of his life, [Arnold] Toynby said the Christianity he saw developing was brittle, imperialistic and incapable of reforming itself. -- John Shelby Spong
I just get excited doing shows. Off stage I am actually very feeble and must be spoon-fed because my hands are too brittle. -- Dane Cook
Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things. -- Fanny Burney
We would make our heroes shallow.... We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength. -- Anne Rice
I forced a smile. It was the one I'd been practicing all morning. It felt tight at the edges and brittle everywhere in between. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Living plants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry. -- Laozi
Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of hatred. -- Augusten Burroughs
I knew what she was, and it made no difference at all. She was hard, as ruthless as she was beautiful, as brittle as bone china. -- Clifton Adams
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
As we grow up, we are exposed to hate and greed and anger and jealousy and peanut brittle and all kinds of things, our subtly body erodes. -- Frederick Lenz
the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing and knowing everything) -- Toni Morrison
We were broken, brittle and fragile. The question was, were we still precious to each other? Or, instead of everything falling into place, had it fallen into pieces? -- Megan Hart
So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity. -- Joshua Waitzkin
Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble. -- Paul Bremer
The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word. -- Arundhati Roy
Faith comes in different tempers: there's the hard, brittle faith that shatters when it meets an obstacle it can't cut through, and the tough, springy faith that bounces off unchipped. -- K.J. Parker
Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittle, negative visualization generates a vastly more dependable calm. -- Oliver Burkeman
The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes on a brittle crust over water thousands of fathoms deep. -- Jostein Gaarder
No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle. -- Alan Watts
The Internet is brittle and fragile and too easy to take down. It's a conduit for criminal activity. We need international treaties to prosecute the bad guys, but we don't have them. -- Vint Cerf
My bones are brittle, my heart weak and erratic, my esophagus and stomach riddled with ulcers, my reproductive system shot, my immune system useless... I'm not going to have a happy ending. -- Marya Hornbacher
There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army I might have had the sense to run. But he overdid it. -- Mark Lawrence
The traces of our life here will lie cold and still, dreaming, like the brittle eyes of dolls in an abandoned cabin, and the last men will look to them for explanations, or apologies. -- Tim Cahill
Pompeii has nothing to teach us, we know crack of volcanic fissure, slow flow of terrible lava, pressure on heart, lungs, the brain about to burst its brittle case (what the skull can endure!) -- Hilda Doolittle
Disagreement is not necessarily a reason to head for Splitsville. In fact, a relationship without disagreement is probably too brittle to last. Some of the best human bonds are forged in the fire of disagreement. -- Jerry Spinelli

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