quotes about Fragility
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There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.
-- Alexander McQueen -
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 for everything. How can one meditate on live without meditating too on its brevity, its precariousness, its fragility?
-- Andre Comte-Sponville -
Will highly comprehensible code, by virtue of being easy to modify, inevitably be supplanted by increasingly less elegant code until some equilibrium is achieved between comprehensibility and fragility? Perhaps simple on the outside/fragile on the inside can be an effective survival strategy for evolving artifacts.
-- Brian Foote -
They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.
-- Camille Paglia -
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I think the music of Mozart is like a universe of human feelings, sentiments and fragility, and ... that's why it's so 'actual' in a way, so modern.
-- Cecilia Bartoli -
The partition separating life from death is so tenuous. The unbelievable fragility of our organism suggests a vision on a screen: a kind of mist condenses itself into a human shape, lasts a moment and scatters.
-- Czeslaw Milosz -
I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.
-- David LaChapelle -
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.
-- Gabrielle Roy -
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Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.
-- Irwin RedlenerSource : "A Healthy Future for Immigrant Children Is a Healthy Future for the Nation" by Irwin Redlener, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2013.
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I was still hesitant to let myself let go, because I still believed in the fragility of happiness.
-- Ishmael BeahSource : Ishmael Beah (2007). “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”, p.173, Macmillan
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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.
-- Jean Genet -
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 a heart, a capacity to love and to be loved.
-- Jean VanierSource : Jean Vanier (2013). “The Heart of L'Arche: A spirituality for every day”, p.33, SPCK
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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
-- Jeff Jarvis -
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.
-- Jose Saramago -
I am completely tied up with softness, fragility, and the problems of a feminine world.
-- Lillian Bassman -
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.
-- Natalia Ginzburg -
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Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
-- Norman Cousins -
Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception.
-- Peter Drucker -
Truly embracing the fragility and tensions of life...brings with it the possibility of true joy.
-- Peter Rollins -
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God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.
-- Pope Francis -
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 what we have missed along the way, we need to live life fully now with a sense of its fragility.
-- Randy KomisarSource : Randy Komisar, Kent L. Lineback (2001). “The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living”, p.13, Harvard Business Press
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A good idea is like a lighted match, easily blown out by the cold winds of rigid management.
-- Richard Kinder -
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.
-- Steven R. McQueen -
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Being deeply aware of fragility and ecstasy seems to me an essential part of being alive and living fully - and there's no way for me to separate this from my poems.
-- Alex LemonSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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We achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness. Wholeness is a natural radiance of Love, and Love demands that we allow the destruction of our old self for the sake of the new.
-- Jalaja BonheimSource : Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, p.228, Simon and Schuster
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Paradoxically, we achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness.
-- Jalaja BonheimSource : Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, p.228, Simon and Schuster
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White means the strength of fragility and the fragility of the passage of time.
-- Martin Margiela -
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At the same time, [princess Margaret] had a fragility and an insecurity in who she was and her position, because her sister had always got the education ever since David [Edward VIII] abdicated.
-- Vanessa Kirby -
For me, a good portrait shows the fragility and humility of the person, and at the same time a strength, a resting in themselves.
-- Wolfgang Tillmans