Fragilista Quotes

#1. 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

#2. When men know they cannot hope in a country, in a political belief, or in themselves, they become free to hope in God.

Randy Alcorn

#3. The human brain is the most complex mass of protoplasm on earth-perhaps even in our galaxy.

Marian Diamond

#4. A business career for a woman and her need for a woman's life as wife and mother, are not enemies at all, unless we make them so, but may be the closest and most co-operative friends and supporter of each other.

Hortense Odlum

#5. When I was little, I always used to like to tell stories cuz it was entertaining to people.

Slick Rick

#6. Money talks, and bulls*** walks.

Fran Drescher

#7. Victory and defeat are but ordinary events in a soldier's career, and why should you give up?

Luo Guanzhong

#8. They should listen to the unsaid words that resonate around the edge of the poem.

Gary Snyder

#9. The goal of federal regulations should be to promote health and safety, but regulatory enforcement must be balanced with common-sense policies and assistance for businesses.

James Lankford

#10. A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.

Guy De Maupassant

#11. It can be annoying not to know who you are, where you came from, or what you're doing. To try to create a character without a whole lot of information can be taxing.

Dallas Roberts

#12. Houses are like books: so many of them around you, yet you only look at a few and visit or reside in fewer still.

Milorad Pavic

#13. I don't see making films to entertain and making films to inform as separate things.

Tom Shadyac

#14. And on the worn book of old-golden
I brought not here to read, it seems, but hold
And freshen in this air of withering sweetness;

Robert Frost

#15. I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.

Eric Sevareid