“And I felt him to be more fragile still. I felt the need of protecting him, as if he himself were a… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
An elephant is vastly more efficient, metabolically, than a mouse. It's the same for a megacity as opposed to a village. But… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I'd want to bring a flamethrower to faculty meetings. The preciousness of academics and their fragile personalities would not be tolerated in… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion… — Victoria Finlay Copy Share Image
“Life was fragile and love was, too. At any moment, even our happiest ones, our world could shatter and we wouldn’t see… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
Because of the vulgar advent, I decided to give way and, by dark and cryptic sentences, tell of the causes of the… — Nostradamus Copy Share Image
“I wondered what sort of man - or woman, perhaps? - had lain here, leaving no more than an echo of their… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Men tend to treat women as fragile creatures, but our bodies were built to withstand pain and hard work, think with profound… — Caroline George Copy Share Image
“You couldn't be more wrong", I said. "You are buying into the cross-stitched sentiments of your parents' throw pillows. You're arguing that… — John Green Copy Share Image
Looking outward to the blackness of space, sprinkled with the glory of a universe of lights, I saw majesty-but no welcome. Below… — Loren Acton Copy Share Image
In Ireland, novels and plays still have a strange force. The writing of fiction and the creation of theatrical images can affect… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“Careful," she called out to me, her voice sharp; part admonishment, part warning. But I'd been that way all this time, and… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
The important point is that the cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost… — John Carmack Copy Share Image
I think that it’s premature to call Libya a democracy because political order is still so fragile there and the command by… — Larry Diamond Copy Share Image
I think the regime in North Korea is more fragile than people think. The country's economic system remains desperate, and one thing… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
How incredible it is that in this fragile existence we should hate and destroy one another. There are possibilities enough for all… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The future of our fragile, beautiful planet home is in our hands. As God's family, we are stewards of God's creation. We… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got… — Robin Gibb Copy Share Image
I don't talk like House, or walk like him. I certainly don't think like him. I don't like to think for more… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
You do become more aware of your mortality as you get older. When you're little, you jump on any wild horse. Then… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
People might think that because I'm skinny and tall, I'm fragile. But I always knew I wasn't. And it's comforting to know… — Joan Smalls Copy Share Image
After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability. — Julia Gillard Copy Share Image
We have arrived at the point where the public are right in thinking that John Prescott no longer serves a purpose in… — Andrew Lansley Copy Share Image
Coppi? Is he the one we followed in the Giro del Piemonte? The guy who is as skinny as an asparagus? He… — Gino Bartali Copy Share Image
The view of earth is absolutely spectacular, and the feeling of looking back and seeing your planet as a planet is just… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway? Why should men not show that they can be fragile or seductive? I am… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
I think if anything I am perhaps more inclined than most people are to be polite and considerate because I am aware… — Alex Colville Copy Share Image
I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
We live in an emotionally fragile culture. We are in touch with every hurt past, present, and perceived. We are the walking… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
I've never seen novels as built things. I have a tendency to see them as found things so that I always feel… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In Afghanistan, life is so fragile; who knows what the next week will bring? That fragility really affects the way you're able… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share Image
Im not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, youre thinking about the work or the next… — Natasha Richardson Copy Share Image
“Where was that fragile, golden-fair Dresden doll I used to be? Gone. Gone like porcelain turned into steel-made into someone who would… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We live on this very small and fragile planet: a world in which there is poverty and injustice is never going to… — Hilary Benn Copy Share Image
Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
People go through challenging moments of losing people and of having their life threatened from illness and real grief. But they get… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
