Vulnerable Quotes

• 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

• Silence makes me feel vulnerable.

  

  Eric Lange
  • Feel
  • Silence
  • Vulnerable

• 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

• 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

• 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

• So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the west today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don't understand how incredibly vulnerable it is.

  

  Niall Ferguson
  • Freedom
  • Vulnerable
  • Granted

• 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

• 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'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

• 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 young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.

  

  Storm Jameson
  • Young
  • Vulnerable
  • Impressions

• Different groups are differentially vulnerable to advertising; and their vulnerability varies not so much with the character or quantity of advertisements as with the informational resources they can claim by age, education, station in life, and government guarantees of consumer protection.

  

  Michael Schudson
  • Character
  • Resources
  • Protection

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

  

  Nushrat Bharucha
  • Career
  • Actor
  • Vulnerable

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

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Vulnerable

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

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • Building
  • Sophisticated
  • Vehicle

• 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

• 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

• Difficulties arise whenever a committed relationship is succeeding. Love makes you vulnerable. . . . Your defenses relax and the dark side of your personality arises. . .

  

  Thomas Keating
  • Love
  • Dark
  • Personality

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • People
  • Strong
  • Vulnerable

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

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Doing
  • Vulnerable

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