Fragilista Quotes & Sayings

Always you, since the moment I first lay my hands on you to heal that bullet wound. Since
I fell inside your soul. Don't you know that by now, Quinn? — Alyssa Day

Why do I care so much about him, and why do I wish I didn't? How can one person make me so confused all of the time? — Stephanie Perkins

In short, the fragilista (medical, economic, social planning) is one who makes you engage in policies and actions, all artificial, in which the benefits are small and visible, and the side effects potentially severe and invisible. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Mothers! They promise you they'll never get married again, and next thing you know you're a bridesmaid. — Mindy Schanback

Women rule the world; we just let our men think they do. — Prescott Lane

The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Further, many writers and scholars speak in private, say, after half a bottle of wine, differently from the way they do in print. Their writing is certifiably fake, fake. And many of the problems of society come from the argument "other people are doing it." So if I call someone a dangerous ethically challenged fragilista in private after the third glass of Lebanese wine (white), I will be obligated to do so here. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Justice is not cheap in this country, and people who insist on it are usually either desperate or possessed by some private determination bordering on monomania. — Hunter S. Thompson

You like words and I know words — Caroline Kepnes

It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song. — Wayne Wonder

I think all the songs [at Moth] are about different things, but if we were to speak about it as a whole, it's really about, it's about joy, and about sensuality and vulnerability and also fun, energy, living in New York in 2015, being out of control, wanting to be in control, failing! It's a sort of story of our lives. — Caroline Polachek

She's not for you, nor you for her; at least, not in the way you both want. — Robert Jordan