Vulnerable Quotes - Page 38

• Caring about anyone leaves you vulnerable.

  Ally Condie

  Caring

  Ally Condie (2012). “Reached”, p.45, Penguin

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• We can't say that we believe in each other's fundamental humanity, and then turn a blind eye to the reality of each other's existence, and the truth of each others' hearts. We must be allies and we must be allies in this business, because to be represented is to be humanized, and as long as anyone anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake, and we are all vulnerable.

  Kerry Washington

  Believe, Heart, Eye

  Kerry Washington's Acceptance Speech at the GLAAD Media Awards, www.vulture.com. March 22, 2015.

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• More than anything I have learned that we are all frail people, vulnerable and wounded; it is just that some of us are more clever at concealing it than others! And of course the great joke is that it is O.K. to be frail and wounded because that is the way the almighty transcendent God made people.

  Sheila Cassidy

  Clever, People, Way

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• When we speak of being vulnerable, it suggests being especially vulnerable to pain. People for whom personal dignity and self-sufficiency are everything, do all they can to shut it out. Noli mi tangere. They are well aware that any intimate relationship has pain in it, forces a special kind of awareness, is costly, and so they try to keep themselves unencumbered by shutting pain out as far as it is possible to do so.

  May Sarton

  Pain, Intimate Relationships, Self

  May Sarton (2014). “Recovering: A Journal”, p.176, Open Road Media

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• I think it would do a lot of people good just to realize how vulnerable they are.

  Joe Rogan

  Thinking, People, Realizing

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• An ardent temperament makes one very vulnerable to dreamkillers.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Temperament, Ardent

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.23, Pan Macmillan

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• I feel old and vulnerable. I now realise that I knew nothing and know nothing, but back when my career was beginning, I thought I was a man when, in fact, I was a dewy-eyed boy who'd not seen an avocado or eaten a tomato.

  James Nesbitt

  Boys, Men, Careers

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

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• America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.

  Robert Reich

  Real, Class, America

  "Real Business Leaders Want to Save Capitalism" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2014.

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• If you are trying to live a life in accordance with the Bible, the concept and call to justice are inescapable. We do justice when we give all human beings their due as creations of God. Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.

  Timothy Keller

  Generosity, Giving, Justice

  Timothy Keller (2010). “Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just”, p.23, Penguin

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• His enemies said he [Robert Kennedy] was consumed with selfish ambition, a ruthless opportunist exploiting his brother's legend. But he was too passionate and too vulnerable ever to be the cool and confident operator his brother was.

  Jack Newfield

  Brother, Selfish, Ambition

  Jack Newfield (1969). “Robert Kennedy: a memoir”

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• I like a man who has a great curiosity and sense of adventure because that's the way I am. He has to have a willingness to be vulnerable and a willingness to see where the road takes us. And I want a man who is romantic.

  Mary Frann

  Adventure, Men, Curiosity

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• To mourn is to be extraordinarily vulnerable. It is to be at the mercy of inside feelings and outside events in a way most of us have not been since early childhood.

  Christian McEwen

  Grief, Childhood, Feelings

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• When you really need help, people will respond. Sincerity means dropping the image facade and showing a willingness to be vulnerable. Tell it the way it is, lumps and all. Don't worry if your presentation isn't perfect; ask from your heart. Keep it simple, and people will open up to you.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Mean, Heart

  Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Les Hewitt (2012). “The Power of Focus Tenth Anniversary Edition: How to Hit Your Business, Personal and Financial Targets with Absolute Confidence and Certainty”, p.206, Health Communications, Inc.

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• As long as we are a single-planet species, we are vulnerable to extinction by a planetwide catastrophe, natural or self-induced. Once we become a multiplanet species, our chances to live long and prosper will take a huge leap skyward.

  David Grinspoon

  Moon, Self, Long

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• When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Pain, Compassion, Risk

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• Most of us want to tell our coworkers or friends, or husbands or wives, our ideas. For what reason? We want validation. But I feel ideas are most vulnerable in their infancy. Out of love and concern, friends and family give all the reasons or objections on why [you] shouldn't do it. I didn't want to risk that.

  Sara Blakely

  Husband, Validation, Ideas

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• I was 29 and I really fell in love, I think, for the first time. I was vulnerable in a way I didn't think I could be.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Thinking, Way, Firsts

  Rosie O'Donnell's Suffering, Strength and Salvation, abcnews.go.com. April 18.

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• People feel vulnerable when they travel. Nobody wants to be taken advantage of or talked into something they don't want. Staying at Motel 6 makes you feel smarter. In fact, I think it actually means you are smarter, but I have no hard data to support that.

  Tom Bodett

  Taken, Mean, Thinking

  "Actually, Motel 6 Doesn't Leave the Light on for You". Interview with Kimberly D. Williams, adage.com. August 30, 2007.

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• Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.

  A.C. Grayling

  Life, Integrity, Real

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• Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.

  David Frum

  Vanity, People, Groups

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• I think I'm actually more vulnerable than people imagine.

  Vincent Cassel

  Thinking, People, Imagine

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

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• The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless.

  Deana Carter

  Song, Fearless, Feels

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• I think that Jews - because they are a distinct, gifted and successful group that differentiates itself from societies in which it lives - are vulnerable wherever the rule of law is not paramount.

  Louis Begley

  Successful, Thinking, Law

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• 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

  Jobs, People, Suffering

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• In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.

  Ulrich Beck

  Finals, Analysis, Facts

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