Vulnerable Quotes

• When our grandchildren ask us where we were when the voiceless and the vulnerable in our era needed leaders of compassion and purpose, I hope we can say that we showed up, and that we showed up on time.

  

  Gary Haugen
  • Purpose
  • Compassion
  • Grandchildren

• I am poor and feeble, persecuted and vulnerable, Yeshua conquered me, and with the New Man he honored me, He delivered me from the poverty-stricken self with his great love, he cherishes me.

  

  Daniel Zion
  • Great
  • Love
  • Jesus

• Teaching and editing have helped me enormously, and brought wonderful people into my life. When I see an author I'm editing struggling to bring a flash of an idea to the page, or notice a student's hands shaking as they read something they wrote out loud for the first time, it keeps things in perspective. How vulnerable we all are. How hard it can be to open the door.

  

  Hannah Tinti
  • People
  • Struggle
  • Perspective

• It's fashionable to speak about vulnerable populations in medicine and public policy, but it's harder to find a more vulnerable population than those who are dying.

  

  Nicholas A. Christakis
  • Medicine
  • Population
  • Vulnerable

• Whether interpreting the Constitution or filling in the blanks of a law or a regulation, every word of the court's opinion can widen or narrow our rights as Americans and either protect us or leave us more vulnerable to any winds that blow.

  

  Herb Kohl
  • Opinion
  • Blow
  • Constitution

• At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.

  

  Sean Parker
  • Money
  • Politics
  • Social Media

• It's hard to give up that amount of control. It's scary to make yourself that vulnerable. Because you might do all kinds of things that are unplanned or are unexpected that maybe don't work, and you have to trust the director to see that and work around those things. I find it really scary.

  

  Sarah Polley
  • Giving
  • Kind
  • Scary

• I'm a sitting duck. No, seriously, I mean I wish I could say more, but I'm a sitting duck because I can't get ahead of them [cyber experts]. They're far ahead of me. That's what I learned: how vulnerable we are. It's a big, silent monster out there. That's what it feels like.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Wish
  • Mean
  • Silent

• No bit of the natural world is more valuable or more vulnerable than the tree bit. Nothing is more like ourselves, standing upright, caught between heaven and earth, frail at the extremities, yet strong at the central trunk, and nothing is closer to us at the beginning and at the end, providing the timber boards that frame both the cradle and the coffin.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • World
  • Earth
  • Strong

• I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Time
  • Pride
  • Duty

• When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.

  

  Wanda Koop
  • Art
  • Process
  • Fearful

• You have to be quite grounded, and I don't know what that is. Sometimes, that means being vulnerable.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Vulnerable
  • Don't Know
  • Grounded

• There's all these musicians in the world, and anybody that takes enough time to create a record or even think about the fantasy of rock & roll, I mean, it's a really vulnerable place to be in. It's a huge thing to do.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • World
  • Enough
  • Musician

• I was saying the other day, how often the most vulnerable area for goalies is between their legs.

  

  Andy Gray
  • Vulnerable
  • Legs
  • Goalies

• The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?

  

  Montgomery Clift
  • Existence
  • Sadness
  • Contrary

• Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • People
  • World
  • Poor

• Because of my experience in Occupy, instead of asking the question, "Who will benefit from this system I'm implementing with the data?" I started to ask the question, "What will happen to the most vulnerable?" Or "Who is going to lose under this system? How will this affect the worst-off person?" Which is a very different question from "How does this improve certain people's lives?"

  

  Cathy O'Neil
  • Different
  • Certain
  • Worst

• The future of healthcare security should include flexibility from the federal government to allow us to serve the state's most vulnerable citizens.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • Security
  • Citizens
  • Health care

• The stars are always up in the sky...then when it is perfectly black, they feel less vulnerable and out they come.

  

  Heather O'Neill
  • Black
  • Feels
  • Sky

• The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all.

  

  Anneli Rufus
  • Vulnerable
  • Fabulous
  • Loner

• I made a conscious decision not to tell anyone in my life. Now I tell people - don't tell anyone your idea until you have invested enough of yourself in it that you are not going to turn back. When a person has an idea at that conception moment it is the most vulnerable - one negative comment could knock you off course.

  

  Sara Blakely
  • People
  • Moments
  • inspirational

• An actor is most vulnerable at the lowest point of his career.

  

  Nushrat Bharucha
  • Career
  • Actor
  • Vulnerable

• Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Greed
  • Loneliness
  • Vulnerable

• Faith is a vulnerable thing, not a battle.

  

  David Bazan
  • Faith
  • Battle
  • Vulnerable

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