Quotes of Vulnerable - somelinesforyou

“ Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected. ”

- Robert Orben

“ We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves. ”

- Daniel Boone

“ When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability… To be alive is to be vulnerable. ”

- Madeleine L’Engle

“ There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace and ultimately no life, without community. ”

- M. Scott Peck

“ As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress. ”

- Kate Beckinsale

“ Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man. ”

- Martin Oppenheimer

“ The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security. ”

- Carl Levin

“ Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable. ”

- Tom Wilkinson

“ We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone — but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy. ”

- Walter Anderson

“ The bold are helpless without cleverness. ”

- Euripides

“ The helpless can't help the helpless. ”

- Tennessee Williams

“ How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire! ”

- Belva Plain

“ The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves. ”

- Charles Reade

“ I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words. ”

- Gloria Steinem

“ To love at all is to be vulnerable. ”

- C. S. Lewis

“ I am as vulnerable and fragile as it is possible to be. I am shredded to the core. I am at the point where I am stripped bare. ”

- Rachel Hunter

“ Alleluia! We do not have to be right! We do have to love, to be vulnerable, to accept joy and pain, and to grow through them. ”

- Madeleine L’Engle

“ It is the new and different that is always most vulnerable to market research. ”

- Malcolm Gladwell

“ I am desperate and vulnerable… I am always terrified… Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome. ”

- Faye Dunaway

“ If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerable to injury from the outside. ”

- Critias of Athens

“ It's the boxers who attract the real women, after all, with their raw primeval strength, beautifully toned bodies and just a touch of vulnerability. ”

- Eamonn McCabe

“ Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable. ”

- Dr. Joyce Brothers

“ Love is not love until love's vulnerable. ”

- Theodore Roethke

“ My father … lived as if he were poured of iron, and loved his family with a vulnerability that was touching. ”

- Mari E. Evans

“ 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

“ The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed. ”

- Nathaniel P. Willis

“ The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of this planet. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead, never let up. ”

- Rod Laver

“ We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked … not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable. ”

- Liv Ullmann
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