A Quote by Ai Weiwei

Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

Ai Weiwei

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Being Fragile Maybe Means Powerful

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Ai Weiwei
Chinese - Artist
Born: May 18, 1957

I got hit in the face with a gun. I'm not very fragile at all. It makes me think maybe things would be easier if I were terribly frail and fragile somehow.

Patty Hearst

Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence are fragile.

James Turrell

Maybe but... if being impulsive means ruining other people's lives, then maybe I should just stay the same.

Susane Colasanti

In our family, being powerful means you never, ever apologize for being a woman.

Georgette Mosbacher

Things are fragile, but we're all being carried and I think we're all on our path in that sense. As fragile as things are, we're still getting there.

Andrew McMahon

Maybe being winged means being wounded by infinity.

Li-Young Lee

Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence are fragile . . . I like to work with it so that you feel it physically, so you feel the presence of light inhabiting a space.

James Turrell

Maybe the idea of me is more powerful than I perceive myself being.

Bonnie Raitt

People on the Spiritual Path are not anemic. They must be sharp, strong, and courageous. Being Spiritual means being Powerful, Dynamic, and Intelligent.

Choa Kok Sui

No one can be truly powerful unless he has access to the command of major institutions, for it is over these institutional means of power that the truly powerful are, in the first instance, truly powerful . . .

C. Wright Mills

Marriage, or any committed partnership, has become sacred to me, powerful and fragile all at the same time.

Emily V. Gordon

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Paulo Freire

Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having their legs off, and then being condemned for being a cripple.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Being a musician means I am 'hanging out' a lot, like driving on tour or being at a show or whatever, so maybe there's more time to interact with peers and develop jokes.

Phil Elverum

'Tryin' to Get the Feeling' has been a revelation. I'd forgotten how powerful that was. I'd forgotten how deep I can crawl into that one, and maybe because I'm older it means even more.