Fragility Quotes

67 Fragility quotes by 58 unique authors

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 it’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 God’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
When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced… — Greg Kinnear
There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance. — Alexander McQueen
Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising… — Tariq Ramadan
Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible… — Jose Saramago
Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no… — Simone Weil
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the colour of its countries,… — E E Cummings
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility — E E Cummings
The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility. — Paulo Coelho

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