Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
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.
We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.
To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.
There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.
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.
To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; it’s based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility.
Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.
The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.
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.
Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.
Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the ocean, and they've personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet's blue heart.
Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception.
A good idea is like a lighted match, easily blown out by the cold winds of rigid management.
He's seeing my soul, my fears, my fragility, my inability to deal with a world which i pretend to master, but about which I know nothing
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.
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 me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.
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 by.
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