Fragility Quotations

In Afghanistan, life is so fragile; who knows what the next week will bring? That fragility really affects the way you're able to report, and the kind of stories people will tell you.

I am not a snowflake. I am not a sweet, infantilising symbol of fragility and life. I am a strong, fierce, flawed adult woman. I plan to remain that way, in life and in death.

Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.

I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power, with collective learning.

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 the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.

Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.

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 meant layoffs in China.

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 more than corpses.

It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its own achievements. Ruins pose a direct challenge to our concern with power and rank, with bustle and fame. They puncture the inflated folly of our exhaustive and frenetic pursuit of wealth.

Given the extent of the exposures of major banks around the world to A.I.G., and in light of the extreme fragility of the system, there was a significant risk that A.I.G.'s failure could have sparked a global banking panic.

Given the more challenging economic backdrop and widely reported consumer spending fragility this is, in our view, a very strong result.

Today, fortunately, was not a supply problem. But once again it proves the fragility of the system, and it also proves that we certainly need to make some upgrades to it.

Today's figure highlights the fragility of the industrial outlook in France. French industrial activity isn't showing significant signs of improvement.

things which in my mind blossom will stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear capable of fragility and indecision

Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.

They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.

Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself.

I'm reminded of the fragility of life, and that the only thing in life that we really have any control over is attitude, ... she cried a little bit, but the next day she said, 'God is going to take care of me, and I don't have anything to worry about.'

The biggest fragility in a project is often just the inability to be able to explain to people why you are doing it, and when you're going to do it, and what's going to happen.

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 discomforts from the fragility of our relations with the absolute.

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 intensity.

It's almost as if this new televised tragedy has brought back the fragility we felt on Sept. 11 and undermined our striving for a sense of security.

Each of the (Brattleboro) players, particularly the seniors who have played a long time, I think they feel particularly bad for this kid. Every player that puts on the pads knows it could happen to them. ... The fragility of athletes' careers is highlighted when something like this happens.

They're more likely than younger drivers to die in their crashes because of their fragility and their age. They're more likely to die in a crash a younger person would survive.

I was still hesitant to let myself let go, because I still believed in the fragility of happiness.

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.

What’s insidious about the fear of what others will say is that you rarely hear them say it. You imagine what they’d say. You imagine they care that much about you. The fragility of our own egos gets the better of us

The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it can bring - the true defense against wealth is an indifference to money.

Philosophers talk about truth and falsehood. People in life talk about payoff, exposure, and consequences (risks and rewards), hence fragility and antifragility. And sometimes philosophers and thinkers and those who study conflate Truth with risks and rewards.

White means the strength of fragility and the fragility of the passage of time.

I felt the vulnerability, the fragility of the children of the world, and how it was, nonetheless, on their frail shoulders that we loaded the weight of our weary hopes and eternal new beginnings.

Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.

He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.

Your fragility is also your strength.

Michael Fassbender is a very masculine person. But he has a fragility that allows him to have a relationship with an audience that has no barrier.

A good idea is like a lighted match, easily blown out by the cold winds of rigid management.

But it's also another myth to think that you should be as tight as a drum and not have any frailties or fragilities.

The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to heal it, and it's going to take time.

For me, a good portrait shows the fragility and humility of the person, and at the same time a strength, a resting in themselves.

Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception.

God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.