Vulnerable Quotes

• Silence makes me feel vulnerable.

  

  Eric Lange
  • Feel
  • Silence
  • Vulnerable

• For if there is ever a moment when we are most vulnerable, it’s when we’re closest to the idea of the attained desire, and thus farthest from ourselves, which is when we’ll tread through any flame.

  

  Chang-Rae Lee
  • Desire
  • Moments
  • Vulnerable

• 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

• 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

• Being in love makes me vulnerable. Intimacy on that level can be so exposing. Accepting that vulnerability and allowing myself to be completely transparent is an ongoing process for me.

  

  Danielle Cormack
  • Love
  • Accepting
  • Intimacy

• For me, I have having the time of my life playing this character Louis Litt. At times, it's unbelievably challenging and scary, when it comes to certain vulnerable areas that I don't necessarily want to go.

  

  Rick Hoffman
  • Character
  • Challenges
  • Scary

• The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it.

  

  Tim Bishop
  • Suffering
  • Jobs
  • Terrible

• I can't afford security. I can't afford a gated house. So, I feel a little vulnerable. I wish some laws would come into play.

  

  Selma Blair
  • Security
  • Vulnerable

• Wanting an honest opinion about my art from someone whose opinion I respect makes me feel vulnerable. It's a great space to be in.

  

  Romany Malco
  • Art
  • Space
  • Opinion

• Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. So we resort to sarcasm, cutting humor, criticism - anything that will keep from exposing the tenderness within. Each partner tends to wait on the initiative of the other for love, only to be disappointed but also confirmed as to the rightness of the accusations made.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Waiting
  • Cutting
  • Criticism

• 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

• 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

• Arnold Rampersad's stunningly revealing biography has, at long last, unveiled-in magisterial prose-the very complex and vulnerable man behind Ralph Ellison's own masks and myths. One of the nation's most brilliant writers emerges as all the more fascinating precisely because he was so very human. Painstakingly researched and compellingly written, Ralph Ellison is a masterwork of the genre of literary biography.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Behinds
  • Brilliant
  • Mask

• I cannot tell you who will be accompanying me and why, because that would only make myself more vulnerable. So I will not talk about that.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • Vulnerable

• 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

• For me, it is good to be vulnerable. It makes me nice... weak sometimes, but in a good way, not a tragic way.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Sometimes
  • Weak
  • Tragic

• Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Mystery
  • Willing
  • Vulnerable

• It might pay to be resilient, if this was all being vulnerable and skinless got you. People didn’t stop and cluck over damage done unless you made it worth their while. Indeed, maybe it was time to rethink this whole salvation business. Or maybe I was less desperate, less teetering on the edge than I cared to admit. Now, that was a refreshing possibility. People Done Vulnerable Desperate Possibility Resilient Salvation Damage Made Might Pay Refreshing Edges Ifs Whole Made It

  

  Daphne Merkin
  • People
  • Done
  • Possibility

• ... non-White Arab birthrates will make White Jewish people a minority totally vulnerable to the political, social, and economic will of non-Whites Arabs. A social upheaval is now beginning to occur that will be the funeral dirge of the America Israel we love.

  

  David Duke
  • People
  • Political
  • Economic

• The world will make you vulnerable. If you're acting like you're not, that's what you're doing.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Doing
  • Vulnerable

• One of the things I like best about men is they're a little vulnerable.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Men
  • Best
  • Vulnerable

• People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • People
  • Strong
  • Vulnerable

• I'm being explicit about really horrifying experiences in my life, but my hope has always been to be responsible as an artist and to avoid indulging in my misery, or to come off as an exhibitionist. I don't want to make the listener complicit in my vulnerable prose poem of depression, I just want to honor the experience. I'm not the victim here, and I'm not seeking other peoples' sympathy. I don't blame my parents, they did the best they could.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Artist
  • Honor
  • Parent

• The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • Building
  • Sophisticated
  • Vehicle

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