A good idea is like a lighted match, easily blown out by the cold winds of rigid management. — Richard Kinder Copy Share Image
White fragility doesn't always manifest in overt ways; silence and withdrawal are also functions of fragility. — Robin DiAngelo 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
Even in our best shape we are a brittle piece of mortality. Your life is a breath, don't waste it. — LeCrae 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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“Most of the time, we have to be strong, we must not show our fragility. We’ve known that since the schoolyard. There… — Alain De Botton Copy Share Image
“Because we know ourselves. Because others obey us as though we were gods, and we know we’re not. We see the fragility… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
“I have a certain amazing genius; worthy of a Nobel Prize I’m sure, and that’s making mistakes. Yes, of course, all of… — Riitta Klint Copy Share Image
“The fragility of the veneer of civilization astonished him. Yet we take it for granted because, being born into it, we have… — Thomas DiMauro Copy Share Image
They [Throne; legacy costumes] are made out of foam latex, which is basically what prosthetic makeup is made out of. So it's… — Christine Bieselin Clark Copy Share Image
It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
If you sat with a pencil and jotted down all the decisions you've taken in the past week, or, if you could,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
Cities tend to be representations of societies: diversity and inequality find their extremes in urban settings. Yet, when war is added onto… — Peter Maurer 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
The only miracle we can perform is to go on living, said the woman, to preserve the fragility of life from day… — Jose Saramago 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
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
When you're younger you feel more invincible - that nothing is ever going to get you down or beat you. When you… — Declan Donnelly Copy Share Image
Hunting and gathering are in my blood. But I've lived long enough to witness a diminution in the seas, and to notice… — Tim Winton 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
“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
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 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
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
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
Necessary, since every moment in our lives is marked by death, like a shadow from another realm, it appear to us like… — Andre Comte-Sponville Copy Share Image