Vulnerability Quotes

• There needs to be a better assessment of what the vulnerabilities are and what constitutes There needs to be a better assessment of what the vulnerabilities are and what constitutes vulnerability.

  

  William Ramsay
  • Vulnerability
  • Assessment

• One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love – any love – reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Love
  • Woman
  • Misery

• The full life is filled with vulnerability, not defense. You face whatever feeling there is.

  

  Virginia Satir
  • Life
  • Feelings
  • Vulnerability

• I guess there's a vulnerability in seeing a female character trying to get out of something really drastic.

  

  Elisha Cuthbert
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Vulnerability

• Vulnerability isn't a bad thing. Everyone's vulnerable and it only makes you human.

  

  Benjamin Stone
  • Human
  • Vulnerability
  • Bad Thing

• We need to have a strong defense focused on areas that are in the greatest vulnerability. I have been very concerned about America's 361 seaports as a point in which terrorist activities and materials could be brought into the country.

  

  Bob Graham
  • Country
  • America
  • Strong

• Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
  • Hollywood
  • Vulnerability

• Music, unleashed, can uplift and create and destroy, stripping away pretenses and leaving raw, exposed vulnerability behind.

  

  C.E. Murphy
  • Music
  • Leaving
  • Vulnerability

• I'll experience vulnerability when I just don't have any more to give.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Experience
  • Giving
  • Vulnerability

• If you lack vulnerability then you are not being truthful to yourself.

  

  Benjamin Stone
  • Vulnerability
  • Truthful
  • Lack

• The Black Lives Matter movement can be read as an attempt to keep mourning an open dynamic in our culture because black lives exist in a state of precariousness. Mourning then bears both the vulnerability inherent in black lives and the instability regarding a future for those lives.

  

  Claudia Rankine
  • Future
  • Black
  • Culture

• I think sexy is vulnerability, and there's no way you can act vulnerable. It just has to be there.

  

  Michael Zaslow
  • Way
  • Vulnerability

• What is concerning is that work in the informal sector is characterised by vulnerability, low wages and no rights. So it is not the way that we lift people out of poverty in Africa.

  

  Winnie Byanyima
  • People
  • Poverty
  • Rights

• Fallen man is both terrified of vulnerability and committed to maintaining independence.

  

  Kay Warren
  • Independence
  • Committed
  • Maintaining

• I don't have a problem showing vulnerability.

  

  Lamman Rucker
  • Vulnerability

• I heard this wonderful quote - "Only the brave show what they love." It's so-embarrassing to approach somebody and say you want to look at them. But without that risk taking, nothing can happen, so I have to make myself vulnerable. What I think is the unifying aspect in people that I like is that they have a sense of their own vulnerability, and I respond to that.

  

  Wolfgang Tillmans
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Wonderful

• I found literary idols in Adrienne Kennedy, Nella Larsen, and Ntozake Shange, writers who'd dared to locate a sanctioned, forbidden space between white vulnerability and black invincibility.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Black
  • Space
  • Vulnerability

• I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull.

  

  Trenton Lee Stewart
  • Character
  • Vulnerability
  • Dull

• I think the one thing that never goes away is soul and emotion and vulnerability and finding your strength in our vulnerability. I think when I apply all of that to music, it somehow just ends up being classic. It's the sum of a bunch of things that never go away.

  

  Eric Benet
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Emotion

• Revenge tries to solve the problem of vulnerability. If I strike back, I transfer vulnerability from myself to the other. And yet by striking back I produce a world in which my vulnerability to injury is increased by the likelihood of another strike. So it seems as if I'm getting rid of my vulnerability and instead locating it with the other, but actually I'm heightening the vulnerability of everyone and I'm heightening the possibility of violence that happens between us.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Problem
  • Violence
  • Revenge

• Vulnerability is allowing people to see you exactly as you are, which is really hard, because when you’re vulnerable you can get hurt. Most people armor up with bravado or something, but those people are missing out, because without allowing yourself to be vulnerable, it’s tough to have, like, any emotional experience at all. Letting people in is really vulnerable, and most people—especially introverts—have trouble.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Experience
  • Hurt
  • Trouble

• One of the problem with cyber is that it lends itself to preemptive action. Your assets in cyber-warfare are your opponents' vulnerabilities, therefore in order to quantify your assets you have to be able to ascertain how vulnerable your opponents are and that involves pre-emptive exploration of your opponents' networks. So in that sense it lends itself to some pretty nasty stuff.

  

  Misha Glenny
  • Problem
  • Vulnerability
  • Exploration

• The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously. It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions that people feel better if they can just dismiss it as trivial. Just take a big belly laugh. I have watched people laughing, and for a moment they look-and are-absolutely helpless. Vulnerability. You can be assaulted while you are laughing.

  

  Abe Burrows
  • Comedy
  • Emotions
  • Vulnerability

• More visibility is more power, but more vulnerability.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Power
  • Vulnerability
  • VIsibility

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