“Perhaps that’s its strength. The flexibility. The fragility. Appearances…” He paused. “…are often deceiving.” — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
things which in my mind blossom will stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear capable of fragility and indecision — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My line of work makes you aware of the fragility of life. You can get up in the morning, eat your cornflakes,… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
White fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves. — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
There is a strand of self-absorption and fragility running through this generation; all too ready to cry 'victim' at the first hint… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I felt the vulnerability, the fragility of the children of the world, and how it was, nonetheless, on their frail shoulders that… — Gabrielle Roy Copy Share Image
I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the… — David Christian Copy Share Image
“I think preparing food and feeding people brings nourishment not only to our bodies but to our spirits. Feeding people is a… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. People in life talk about payoff, exposure, and consequences (risks and rewards), hence fragility and antifragility.… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents… — Homaro Cantu Copy Share Image
Fragility of modern world leaves me with the idea we'd better anticipate what's going on. We take our right steps today and… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
If we are at all sensitive to the life around us, to one another's pains and joys, to the beauty and fragility… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things… — Anonymous 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
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the colour… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The main threads running through the lives of W. A. Clark and his daughter Huguette include the costs of ambition, the burdens… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
In 1966 Rolf Edberg wrote "This is mankind's home", "in the narrow borderland between the deathly heat beneath our feet and the… — Margot Wallstrom Copy Share Image
Parents don't get that, though. They don't understand about the fragility of teen friendships. They don't understand how easy it is for… — Lauren Barnholdt Copy Share Image
“We should not fear the fragility of truth, for it creates openness to correction, learning, and growth. It fosters empathy, making inquiry,… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“i knew tht we all have the capacity to act in self-destructive ways, nevertheless i had a kind of faith that the… — Stephen Grosz Copy Share Image
The scariest time of my life was when I knew my Nana was dying. It was horrible, as there's nothing I could… — Nikki Sanderson Copy Share Image
Sincerity is a Christian virtue, as is honesty about our struggles. But my generation needs to realize that Christianity is more than… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
The old lessons of submissiveness and fragility made us victims. Women are so much more than that. You can be a businesswoman,… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
“Those mornings were fragile things — like flowers blooming in the middle of a battlefield. She hadn’t realized then that the soil… — Maggie Sn Copy Share Image
Flamboyance and fortitude, femme and butch-not poses, not stereotypes, but a dance between two different kinds of women, one beckoning the other… — Joan Nestle Copy Share Image
I felt a kind of numbness, an enervation, but more particularly an odd fragility - as if my body had actually become… — William Styron Copy Share Image
“During the film (long, miserable) he takes her hand and squeezes rhythmically as if he's milking a cow. She's distracted by wondering… — Lesley Glaister Copy Share Image
A first lesson in the fragility of love and the preternatural cowardice of men. And out of this disillusionment and turmoil sprang… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
If you take something out of the freezer, it's cold, but what happens when it melts? It's a cool party, a cool… — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
“The fragility of our era is this, too: we don’t believe that there is a chance for redemption; for a hand to… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Becoming aware of fragility, of temporality, of the fact that we will surely all be lost to one another, sooner or later,… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Rather than working to the exclusion of everything else in order to flood our bank accounts in the hope that we can… — Randy Komisar Copy Share Image
Only when I saw the Earth from space, in all its ineffable beauty and fragility, did I realize that humankind's most urgent… — Sigmund Jahn Copy Share Image
There is great potential and deep fragility [in Malaysia] that can be used by any group that stresses on religion, pushing towards… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse… — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image