#agile

The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated. ↗

— Gary Miller

#consumers #demonstrated #distributed #fragile #gasoline

The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council. ↗

— David Petraeus

#could #council #difficult #during #elected

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#deplorable #fashion #fragile #grace #had

Fragile egos are put on the line every day. ↗

— Mary Lou Retton

#egos #every #every day #fragile #line

I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually. ↗

— Natasha Richardson

#actress #actually #become #character #day

The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day. ↗

— Julia Roberts

#day #each #fragile #get #getting

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows. ↗

— Frances Rodman

#brave #brightness #courage #fail #faith

War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#life #sad #small #times #very

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing. ↗

— Randolph Bourne

#fragile #friendships #handling #much #other

I don't do well around the angry, bitter and emotionally fragile among us, which may eliminate 70% of the population. ↗

— Craig Kilborn

#angry #around #bitter #eliminate #emotionally