Fragility Quotes

67 quotes by 58 authors

In 1966 Rolf Edberg wrote "This is mankind's home", "in the narrow borderland between the deathly heat beneath our feet and the coldness of space… — Margot Wallstrom
A little group of thatched cottages in the middle of the village had an orchard attached; and I remember well the peculiar purity of the… — Alfred Leslie Rowse
I learned a long time ago that the last thing any woman should be thinking about is being 'skinny' or 'thin.' To me, those words… — Lauren Fleshman
Rather than working to the exclusion of everything else in order to flood our bank accounts in the hope that we can eventually buy back… — Randy Komisar
Necessary, since every moment in our lives is marked by death, like a shadow from another realm, it appear to us like a vanishing point… — Andre Comte-Sponville
In case I get hit by a bus tomorrow, I want to make something clear - I am not a snowflake. I am not a… — Stella Young
I think that itâ€™s premature to call Libya a democracy because political order is still so fragile there and the command by the state over… — Larry Diamond
Every time I ran the mile I was aware of my own weakness, there was some opponent who could give me a hell of a… — Roger Bannister
An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty. — Edmund Burke
Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march… — Mahmoud Darwish
They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature. — Camille Paglia
I think there has to be an underlying sexuality. There has to be a perverseness to the clothes. There is a hidden agenda in the… — Alexander McQueen
The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and… — Homaro Cantu
Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to it, as our… — Emile M. Cioran
I felt a kind of numbness, an enervation, but more particularly an odd fragility - as if my body had actually become frail, hypersensitive and… — William Styron
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 tough immigrant parents… — Amy Chua
Each person is sacred, no matter what his or her culture, religion, handicap, or fragility. Each person is created in Godâ€™s image; each one has… — Jean Vanier
But my relief that David Auburn's Proof is less about its ballyhooed higher mathematics than the fragility of life and love was matched by my… — John Heilpern
We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility. — Malcolm Gladwell
Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of… — James Hillman

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