Vulnerable Quotes - Page 12

To love is to be vulnerable: if God loves, then God is mortal.

The younger a cell, the faster it grows, the more vulnerable it is to damage.

When my stepfather died, I just kind of fell apart. I felt pretty vulnerable, like there literally could be no tomorrow.

We're now seeing levels of inequality raise their heads that we haven't seen since the age of the robber barons. If somebody watched The Deuce, and understood the allegory about capital and labor, and understands what happens when one side is vulnerable to the other, that would be swell.

It was a time of uncommon possibility and freedom, when Detroit created wondrous and lasting things. But life can be luminescent when it is most vulnerable.

Americans are about to discover that their system is more vulnerable than they thought. There's a lot of complacency in American politics, there's a lot of complacency in advanced democracies generally.

Historically, measures initially directed at foreign nationals have subsequently been extended to citizens. What happens is foreign nationals are the easiest targets and most vulnerable targets, so they're the initial targets. But government officials, once you give them a certain kind of power over individuals, they get used to it and almost inevitably seek out ways to extend it. You will see that virtually every form of repressive government measure that has been employed in the United States against citizens started out as an antialien measure and was then extended to citizens.

Faith is a vulnerable thing, not a battle.

Only when you’re willing to take 100 percent responsibility for making the relationship work will it work. Otherwise, a relationship left to chance will always be vulnerable to disaster.

I learned that pretending you don't have feelings makes you feel unhappy and unfulfilled and, ultimately, is what really makes you vulnerable because you are hiding from the truth.

Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable.

Tennessee helps me open up. I'm much more vulnerable there, more willing to talk about anything.

I can have fairly crippling self-criticism. It doesn't really put me in a vulnerable state, I just get glum and intolerable, but it certainly is a vulnerability.

Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.

Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune.

I am a woman who has my extreme vulnerable side and my baggage - and at times I feel extremely weak.

I really feel vulnerable when I don't have the answer to something. When I feel lack of control, my nerves really kick in.

Actually, performing is a lot like golf. You are alone, so vulnerable.

Somehow when I express my voice, I feel that much more vulnerable. For instance, if I used the wrong word, or if I said something and somebody could take the word and misinterpret it.

Authenticity is also about the courage and the vulnerability to say, "Yeah, I'll try it. I feel pretty uncomfortable and I feel a little vulnerable, but I'll try it!"

When we're defined by what people think we lose the courage to be vulnerable.

I feel positive when I feel vulnerable, because it's another reminder that it's not all about me and about my ego.

I feel vulnerable to the astonishing beauty of being alive and to Mother Nature.

I feel vulnerable every day to the grace of God as expressed in every living thing.

I actually think it's courageous to be vulnerable, and it's not something to be avoided.