Vulnerable Quotes - Page 30

• In a fragile environment, we need to be aware of ourselves as members of a uniquely powerful species living among other species who are quite as interesting as we are but vulnerable to us because we are cleverer in more destructive ways.

  Andrew Motion

  Powerful, Interesting, Needs

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• It’s important to be fearless yet vulnerable. It takes courage to do both.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Fearless, Important

  FaceBook post by Nicole Scherzinger from Aug 30, 2012

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• I wouldn't want to play a character that knew everything and knew where to go. It is much more interesting playing a character that is vulnerable trying to be strong. It makes for better TV.

  Missy Peregrym

  Strong, Character, Play

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• You feel vulnerable when you hear things that are not being said

  Alan Pardew

  Said, Feels

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• Our strength will continue if we allow ourselves the courage to feel scared, weak, and vulnerable.

  Melody Beattie

  Scared, Weak, Feels

  Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, Hazelden Publishing

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• Being connected to the Internet means being vulnerable to coordinated actions that can knock down walls of secrecy and shatter mechanisms of control.

  Jamais Cascio

  Wall, Mean, Action

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• Who is more amateurish, more vulnerable---those who rely on machines that need to be plugged in, or logged on, or in some other way connected in order to be more than a useless slab of plastic ... or those who have learned to master life without?

  Anne Fortier

  Order, Needs, Machines

  Anne Fortier (2014). “The Lost Sisterhood: A Novel”, p.532, Ballantine Books

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• We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable to corruption and can treat the defenseless in a destructive fashion.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Fashion, Mean, Holocaust

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Footballers are an easy target. They are offered big lines of credit. Every sport is vulnerable; its such a big gambling industry, and there are problems with syndicates in other countries.

  Gordon Taylor

  Sports, Country, Gambling

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• Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.

  Irwin Redlener

  Children, Fragility, Levels

  "A Healthy Future for Immigrant Children Is a Healthy Future for the Nation" by Irwin Redlener, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2013.

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• I love complex characters - strong females who are vulnerable but have a life and soul. That's what I'm drawn to and what I enjoy most.

  Ruth Wilson

  Strong, Character, Soul

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can engage in banter without making yourself vulnerable.

  Theodore Zeldin

  People, Way, Reputation

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• 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, Dying, Population

  "Fifteen Questions with Nicholas A. Christakis". Interview with Stephanie M. Woo, www.thecrimson.com. October 20, 2011.

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• Ideas, even million-dollar ones, are most vulnerable in their infancy; don't share them with too many people. However, don't hide your plan from people who can help you move it forward.

  Sara Blakely

  Moving, Ideas, People

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• There's something really vulnerable about playing something that you like for someone. You don't know what their reaction will be.

  Noah Baumbach

  Reactions, Knows

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• If I didn't like you, I could take any or all of what I found and invent a context that lost you your job, your relationships, your degree. People are so vulnerable online and they don't realize it. That is scary to me.

  Mark Cuban

  Jobs, People, Scary

  "What Scares Mark Cuban". Interview with Jeff Weiss, www.menshealth.com. September 12, 2014.

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• Nobody should ever mistake and think that our country [USA] is weakened, or that authority is diffuse and unspecified, and that we are vulnerable.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Country, Mistake, Thinking

  "GPS November 2, 2008: Interviews with Michael Bloomberg and Madeleine Albright". Interview with Fareed Zakaria, globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com. November 2, 2008.

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• Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.

  Helen Clark MacInnes

  Self, Remember, Forget

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• The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain.

  Helen Clark MacInnes

  Pain, Feelings, Mind

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• We need healthy forests if we want to protect our climate. As the climate changes, forests become more vulnerable to insect outbreaks, droughts and wildfires. Simultaneously, when our forests are destroyed, their carbon is released back into the atmosphere, further impacting climate change. It's a horrifying one-two punch.

  Chris Noth

  Two, Healthy, Atmosphere

  "My Plans This Valentine’s Day Weekend" by Chris Noth, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

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• I have my flaws and my issues, past and present and who knows what will happen in the future. I want people to know Im vulnerable too and each one of us is.

  Tim Gunn

  Past, Issues, People

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• Isnt it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holmes, is vulnerable to love as we all are?

  Natalie Dormer

  Lovely, Quirky, Genius

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• In many parts of the world, women and girls are especially vulnerable to HIV/AIDS because they lack control over most aspects of their life. Cultural expectations and gender roles expose women and girls to violence, sexual exploitation and far greater risk for infection.

  Hillary Clinton

  Girl, Expectations, Risk

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• Life's so brief,” she goes on. “We're, at every juncture, staring mortality in the face. It's the very least we can do if we think it will be of any interest or value, to share the past. And although mine's been crooked, it's also been splendid. It's taught me to be vulnerable and humble, to write this book.

  Kate Mulgrew

  Book, Humble, Writing

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• I'd like to hope you end up a miserable, lonely woman. But actually, I hope you have children one day, Ellie Haworth. Then you'll know how it feels to be vulnerable. And to have to fight, to be constantly vigilant, just to make sure your children get to grow up with a father.

  Joanna Noelle Levesque

  Lonely, Children, Growing Up

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