Quotes About Eggshells

#1. He's pulling the load of an ox and walking on eggshells.

Stieg Larsson

#2. Eggshells become hard to break after walking on them for so long.

Mia Castile

#3. Denis Law could dance on eggshells.

Bill Shankly

#4. For all its amazing strength, our hearts are made of eggshells, and sometimes all it takes is someone you'd almost given up on declaring their love for it to crack wide open

Leisa Rayven

#5. I don't try to be candy coated. I don't try to walk on eggshells. I am what I am. Love me or hate me.

Pink

#6. What need," Dunstan wondered, "could someone have of the storm-filled eggshells?

Neil Gaiman

#7. Each one carries with him to the end traces of his birth, the slime and eggshells of a primordial world. Many a one never becomes a human-being, but remains a frog, lizard, or ant. Many a one is a human-being above and a fish below.

Hermann Hesse

#8. Very gently. Like there are eggshells on your pedals, and you don't want to break them. That's how you drive in the rain.

Garth Stein

#9. I can barely recall a single holiday when my father didn't make a scene or create some kind of chaos. We were always walking on eggshells.

Dominique Moceanu

#10. These politically correct language initiatives are misguided and harmful. They create highly entitled professional "victims" who expect to be free from any offense, and they engender a stifling atmosphere where all individuals walk on eggshells lest they might commit a linguistic capital crime.

Gad Saad

#11. Post-traumatic stress disorder didn't surface as a condition until 1980 ... that fact was very relevant when I remember back to how these men behaved. A lot of walking on eggshells was required for wives and children.

Matthew Nable

#12. Whenever I feel like this, I am gentle with myself, pretend like I'm someone else, someone good. I walk on eggshells around myself, like I'm some fragile piece of porcelain you have to place quietly, deliberately back on the shelf.

Andrea Portes

#13. But eggshells were made to be broken, and slamming into a 100-story skyscraper at the speed of light would likely do the deed.

Maureen A. Miller

#14. I spread eggshells all over my room, so anyone who tries to get close when I sleep will know what they're walking on

Josh Stern

#15. South Africa is such a fraught place to live. The anxiety about crime, the crunching on racial eggshells, the juxtaposition of First World materialism with Third World squalor.

Rory Carroll

#16. Each man carries the vestiges of his birth; the slime and eggshells of his primeval past with him to the end of his days. Some never become human, remaining frog, lizard, ant. Some are human above the waist, fish below.

Hermann Hesse

#17. Good attitudes are contagious; they inspire and encourage others. Bad attitudes are also contagious; they create a negative and hostile work environment and make others feel uncomfortable - like they have to walk on eggshells all the time.

Tony Cooke

#18. For nearly four weeks, his family had been walking on eggshells around him, expecting him to fall apart at any moment and he was damn tired of it. He wished he could apart. Maybe it would hurt less if he could just say to hell with everything and find a corner to hide away in.

Nicola Sinclair

#19. Jeezum - humans were like eggshells.

James Patterson

#20. I'd forgotten that human minds are easy to shatter as eggshells," Rhysand said, and ran a finger across the base of my throat. I shuddered, my eyes burning. "Look at how delighful she is - look how she's trying not to cry out in terror. It would be quick, I promise.

Sarah J. Maas

#21. But everybody still walked in eggshells around the two of them, trying not pick sides, though loyalties were inevitably divided.

C.J. Daugherty

#22. A lot of times, you feel like you're walking on eggshells in a creative environment, because everyone's having to watch out for egos so much of the time.

Tony Hale

#23. That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now. We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells.

Clint Eastwood

#24. White fragility! White people are so sensitive about race and racial conversations. I feel like I'm always walking on eggshells when I'm around white people.

Margaret Cho

#25. The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured.

Julia Ward Howe

#26. Loyal employees in any company create loyal customers, who in turn create happy shareholders.

Richard Branson

#27. Great men are not so selfless.

Brent Weeks

#28. Ultimately, no person, or no circumstance has control of you - that control belongs to you and you only. So grasp God's hand and return to the freedom that he died to give you.

Henry Cloud

#29. Which is more misshapen,
religion without virtue, or virtue without religion?

Joseph Joubert

#30. I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.

Steven Weinberg

#31. A fool and his money are soon parted. - Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry.

Thomas Tusser

#32. The body, I had been taught, wants only to live. Suicide, I had understood, is an act not of the body against itself but of the will against the body. Yet here I beheld a body that was going to die rather than change its nature.

J.M. Coetzee

#33. Then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer.

Anais Nin

#34. Societies will, of course, wish to exercise prudence in deciding which technologies that is, which applications of science are to be pursued and which not. But without funding basic research, without supporting the acquisition of knowledge for its own sake, our options become dangerously limited.

Carl Sagan

#35. To understand is to invent.

Jean Piaget

#36. All the babies breaking things and grabbing at the cake, and each mama going home thinking about the subtle superiority of her own child to every other child there.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#37. Nature was beautiful and filled with spirituality without needing to be likewise full of spirits.

Thomm Quackenbush

#38. But when society is the name for such hollow gentlemen and ladies ... and when its breeding is professed indifference to everything that can advance or can retard mankind, I think we must have lost ourselves in that same Desert of Sahara, and had better find the way out.

Charles Dickens

#39. Wherever you escape, the truth will find you! Always be prepared to meet with it!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#40. Sharing oft leaves less.
But with love the more we share,
the fuller our hearts.

J. Benson