Quotes About Walking On Eggshells

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Stieg Larsson

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

Mia Castile

#9. I'm lucky enough to be with someone, and I am happy.

Johnny Knoxville

#10. I realize that I won't have quite enough time to understand everything - but that hasn't stopped me wanting to understand as much as I can.

David Papineau

#11. Do you want an adventure now, or would you like to have your tea first?

J.M. Barrie

#12. Truth is the most unbending and uncompliable, the most necessary, firm, immutable, and adamantine thing in the world.

Ralph Cudworth

#13. The bastard. It's bad enough knowing he's stolen our money,but it's humiliating having to watch him spend it.

Jeffrey Archer

#14. They are both stances of "disbelief," but mere cynicism is negative, a withdrawal from politics into private tranquility, while "kynicism" is openly antagonistic, a radically engaged reaction to the collapse of meaningful options within the public sphere.

Drew Daniel

#15. Captain Blood, Robin Hood, Don Juan -Flynn had played them all. Sometimes if the mood struck him, he'd even played them well.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#16. And you told me life was learning how to be a friend.

Ben Howard

#17. Why chose strife and anger if it will only take us further from our purpose? Happiness can be attained anywhere, not just in a place of beauty or freedom.

Kaza Kingsley

#18. If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.

S. Jay Olshansky

#19. 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

#20. You asked me earlier what it was like to come home," I say.
Haley nods. I lace our fingers together and raise them into the air. "I couldn't answer you because I didn't know, but now I do. This-" I rock out hands "-I finally found home.

Katie McGarry

#21. ...words can help us to see what is graceful or human where lovelines and humanity seem to fail...

Mark Doty

#22. If we are not inwardly wrought upon, and changed by the powerful operations of the Holy Spirit, and our moral actions proceed from a principle of a new nature, however we may call ourselves Christians, we shall be found naked at the great day.

George Whitefield

#23. Yes; the poem goes something like this: 'Bamboo without mind, yet sends thoughts soaring among clouds. Standing on the lone mountain, quiet, dignified, it typifies the will of a gentleman.
Painted and written with light heart, Wu Chen.'
Sunday, May 31, 1992

Audrey Niffenegger