Words matter. These are the best Fragility Quotes from famous people such as Irwin Redlener, Mahmoud Darwish, Sebastian Coe, Alber Elbaz, Norman Cousins, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.
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.
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.
If you take something out of the freezer, it’s cold, but what happens when it melts? It’s a cool party, a cool person, a cool collection. What does that mean? I’m more interested in things that are uncool, things that have a certain individuality, a certain soul, a certain longevity, emotion, fragility.
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
I have found that the only way to give feedback without triggering white fragility is not to give it at all.
There is a hidden agenda in the fragility of romance.
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 assume strength rather than fragility in their children and therefore behave completely differently.
I was only 13 years old when I was forced to face the fragility of my own life. A routine surgery landed me in a medically induced coma for two weeks with a mere 1% chance of surviving. But survive I did.
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.
The antidote to white fragility is ongoing and lifelong and includes sustained engagement, humility, and education.
Conservatives reveal themselves through their care for ordinary human things, and their recognition of the fragility of decency and the need to protect it.
White fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves.
Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.
I found I am not an anarchistic form creator; I’m intuitive, and I’m trying to figure out a way to explore human fragility.
I feel I’m often misunderstood by critics. People project a lot or exaggerate the subjective fragility simply because it’s frightening to them.
The language of violence that many whites use to describe anti-racist endeavors is not without significance, as it is another example of how white fragility distorts reality.
Skinniness is a new fashion. It reflects an obsession with youth, a suggestion of pre-adolescence when a female’s fertility can be dominated. It implies vulnerability, feebleness and fragility.
Local businesses and communities must be included from the very start in developing solutions to fragility, violence, and conflict.
I have the deepest admiration for Angela Palmer and her work so having my helmet as her subject has been a true honour for me. I think the sculpture is stunning and very striking, it’s the most incredible combination of strength with fragility.
Everything about ‘Hugo’ to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself.
One can’t live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors.
It’s about surrendering to this feeling of utter fragility, and singing through the volatility of it all. The earth is unstable, and I’m part of the earth. I can feel it coursing through my own body. I feel the energy of everything, flickering. Let’s just sing together.
White fragility doesn’t always manifest in overt ways; silence and withdrawal are also functions of fragility.
We must understand the factors that cause fragility, violence, and conflict in order to develop solutions that will meaningfully reduce instability at its roots rather than merely addressing the symptoms.
I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies – our decay and eventual death.
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 land.
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.
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.
There is a strand of self-absorption and fragility running through this generation; all too ready to cry ‘victim’ at the first hint of a situation they don’t like.
I hoped that being attracted to men might go away, but what I never ever hoped would go away were the feelings of femininity, and of softness and fragility, that could live inside of a boy. They were private, but they were mine.
When you’re younger you feel more invincible – that nothing is ever going to get you down or beat you. When you get a bit older, you realise the fragility of things, how easy it is to get caught out by things – and Ant did.
I remember when I first saw ‘Guided by Voices’; those earlier recordings are so deconstructed, kind of like four-track music, and so artful in their collage and in their weird fragility.
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.
Businesses operating in fragile or conflict-affected environments bear a responsibility to, at the very minimum, do no harm and avoid fuelling conflict or reinforcing fragility.
I’ve always been a big fan of Philip K. Dick; I love his work. There’s a returning theme of identity and the fragility of our identity. Even when we are looking at what we think is a stark reality, it might actually be something completely different.
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.
The fragility created by protracted conflicts, resulting in destroyed cities and dramatically insufficient services, is not something that humanitarian organizations can address comprehensively. Only political solutions can end armed conflicts.
When people grow up with a family characterized by chaos and uncertainty and fragility, you look for a substitution for that.
The story of Basinski’s ‘Disintegration Loops’ – tapes that destroyed themselves in the transfer to digital – is a parable (again almost too perfect) for the switch from the fragility of analogue to the infinite replicability of digital.
