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 partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a… — Czeslaw Milosz 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
Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
“Love’s like an egg. Break it, and you might still have almost every bit of yolk and white, but there’s no way… — Cath Crowley 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
I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death. — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
A little group of thatched cottages in the middle of the village had an orchard attached; and I remember well the peculiar… — A. L. Rowse Copy Share Image
The biggest fragility in a project is often just the inability to be able to explain to people why you are doing… — Sebastian Coe 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
“...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
I think the music of Mozart is like a universe of human feelings, sentiments and fragility, and ... that's why it's so… — Cecilia Bartoli Copy Share Image
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as… — Jean Genet 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
The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
My view is that we're entering into a situation of enormous instability, insecurity, fragility. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of… — John Logan 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
To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things… — Martha C. Nussbaum 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
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
When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning,… — Sogyal Rinpoche 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
I think the biggest difference is that I've noticed Western parents seem much more concerned about their children's psyches, their self-esteem, whereas… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
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