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It's had about a thousand lives in it, some brittle and cold, others quaint and lively. The wallpaper's peeling and the pipes are rusting. The shingles are breaking away, falling to ancient earth but the hearth still smells of warm breakfast, eggs sizzling in their beds, toast crisp with strains of raspberry jam, griddlecakes tanning themselves, milk being topped off. Somewhere there is a rumbling, a truck bearing gifts of furniture, a car with parents cooing to their young and calming the family pets as they speed on to their destination. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 2 years ago
What was a minor temporary event for other carriers devastated Southwest Airlines because our operation has become brittle and subject to massive failures under the slightest pressure, southwest Airlines Pilots Association are tired and frustrated because our operation is running on empty due to a lack of support from the company. – Casey Murray	Found on CNN 2 years ago
You'd have to be pretty brittle and pretty sick if a blanket's going to stop your breathing. – Raj Dasgupta	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Think of like a Milky Way bar or a Mars bar, its where the chocolate and caramel touch, that depth, you can treat that as the thickness of the brittle, rigid layer. – Paul Byrne	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
If a man sees a woman as brittle, he may love her with a sense of extra burden. – Esther Perel	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Peace is brittle and a big burden on our shoulders so we need ... concrete help from the European Union and the European Commission, we can get more support together than on our own, to maximize the gains for our peoples. – Edi Rama	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We believe that global growth is still too low, too brittle and too lopsided. – Christine Lagarde	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass. – Tom Robbins	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago

It's had about a thousand lives in it, some brittle and cold, others quaint and lively. The wallpaper's peeling and the pipes are rusting. The shingles are breaking away, falling to ancient earth but the hearth still smells of warm breakfast, eggs sizzling in their beds, toast crisp with strains of raspberry jam, griddlecakes tanning themselves, milk being topped off. Somewhere there is a rumbling, a truck bearing gifts of furniture, a car with parents cooing to their young and calming the family pets as they speed on to their destination.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

What was a minor temporary event for other carriers devastated Southwest Airlines because our operation has become brittle and subject to massive failures under the slightest pressure, southwest Airlines Pilots Association are tired and frustrated because our operation is running on empty due to a lack of support from the company.

– Casey Murray

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You'd have to be pretty brittle and pretty sick if a blanket's going to stop your breathing.

– Raj Dasgupta

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Think of like a Milky Way bar or a Mars bar, its where the chocolate and caramel touch, that depth, you can treat that as the thickness of the brittle, rigid layer.

– Paul Byrne

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

If a man sees a woman as brittle, he may love her with a sense of extra burden.

– Esther Perel

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Peace is brittle and a big burden on our shoulders so we need ... concrete help from the European Union and the European Commission, we can get more support together than on our own, to maximize the gains for our peoples.

– Edi Rama

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We believe that global growth is still too low, too brittle and too lopsided.

– Christine Lagarde

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.

– Tom Robbins

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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