“The man slips along the stoically congealed houses Perpendicular like them A moving ornament Burning fiction His fragility contradicts the duration of… — Hélène Baronne d’Oettingen Copy Share Image
[On Nijinksy:] Ah, he took my breath away! The body that man had, the controlled power, the iron fragility. He was a… — Dagmar Godowsky Copy Share Image
White fragility! White people are so sensitive about race and racial conversations. I feel like I'm always walking on eggshells when I'm… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control. — Irwin Redlener Copy Share Image
Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy. — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“Such an awful fragility of love he thought that plans are made and broken and remade in these gaps between rational behavior.” — Helen Simonson Copy Share Image
I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, fierce, flawed… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
At the same time, [princess Margaret] had a fragility and an insecurity in who she was and her position, because her sister… — Vanessa Kirby Copy Share Image
Will highly comprehensible code, by virtue of being easy to modify, inevitably be supplanted by increasingly less elegant code until some equilibrium… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Each story wanted, no—needed—to reveal a human fragility, a human bondage which tied people to the things they did and to be… — C.J. Roberts 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
“[...] A diet of constant, stimulating activity is the best prescription for our troubles. It keeps the brain in a state of… — John J. Ratey 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
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
“Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. They thrive on… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
“...my classical values make me advocate the triplet of erudition, elegance, and courage; against modernity's phoniness, nerdiness, and philistinism...many philistines reduce my… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
“Unfortunately, mortal life is very fragile, and very short. Yours could be shorter than usual.” — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“...allowing yourself to be vulnerable makes you weak but also opens you to the nuances of beauty...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Michael Fassbender is a very masculine person. But he has a fragility that allows him to have a relationship with an audience… — Steven R. McQueen Copy Share Image
He's seeing my soul, my fears, my fragility, my inability to deal with a world which i pretend to master, but about… — Paulo Coelho 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
“Perhaps that’s its strength. The flexibility. The fragility. Appearances…” He paused. “…are often deceiving.” — Julie Anne Long 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
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 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
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
“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
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
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
“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