Vulnerability Quotes · Page 16

“Beware those who stand nearest, for they see both your strengths and your scars. The hand that offers comfort can just as…

— Pierre Lagrenat

“you simply couldn't guard yourself against dreams. they attacked late at night when a person was at the most vulnerable.”

— Kate O'Riordan

Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.

— Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Almost always, genes are about potentials and vulnerabilities rather than about determinism.

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Fallen man is both terrified of vulnerability and committed to maintaining independence.

— Kay Warren

Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn’t register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you’re too daft to know you’re…

— David Benioff

Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not…

— Douglas Wood

In the past, I have assumed the word 'vulnerability' equates with the word 'weakness' and 'This Is Us' shows us that it…

— Chris Sullivan

Many people see vulnerability as weakness when it's the only way to truly grow and truly love. Love makes me feel vulnerable.…

— Betsy Landin

Skinniness is a new fashion. It reflects an obsession with youth, a suggestion of pre-adolescence when a female's fertility can be dominated.…

— Sara Pascoe

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can't ensure, who may…

— Brene Brown

“You’re a vulnerability,” he ground out. “My vulnerability. I have no vulnerabilities. I spent years shavin’ every last one away from me…

— Kristen Ashley

But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue…

— Condoleezza Rice

I am intrigued by the basics of human life, by our vulnerability, our desires, our sexuality - as far as I am…

— Thomas Koerfer

I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own…

— Gary Ross

“Without warning, all the tears I’ve been holding back are pouring out of me, hot and fast . . . It’s like…

— Natalie C. Anderson

Have you ever observed somebody go through a religious conversion? The person seems perfectly reasonable to you and has no particular concern…

— Darrel Ray

I was anti-everything and everyone. I didn't want people around me. This aversion was not some big crippling anxiety; merely a mature…

— Irvine Welsh

But the economic meltdown should have undone, once and for all, the idea of poverty as a personal shortcoming or dysfunctional state…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“You wish you could go back to a time when God wasn’t confusing--when God and everything made sense. Your questions matter. Your…

— Brenda Seefeldt Amodea

You can't really judge an actor's abilities by their career, because the business is going to pigeonhole people into whatever turns a…

— Nic Pizzolatto

“Somewhere here I want to bring in a learning which has been most rewarding, because it makes me feel so deeply akin…

— Carl R. Rogers

Zoe Saldana is such an angel. She’s got such an openness and vulnerability on camera and yet such great strength. She can…

— Zachary Quinto

“We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor…

— Brené Brown

Being blonde now doesn't mean Marilyn Monroe vulnerability. Blonde in the Eighties means being in control.

— Kim Wilde

It's hard to be vulnerable with people in general, and then trying to find the balance between expressing vulnerability and openness with…

— Trinity Rodman

My greatest vulnerability is that I'm not 'normal.' I'm not married, I don't have children. It's something I feel defensive about.

— Esther Dyson

We aren't always comfortable witnessing real frailty or vulnerability in our heroines, but I like characters who struggle, and doubt, and who…

— Leigh Bardugo

Vulnerability is important in life, I feel. That's what allows you to experience intense emotions, whether it's joy or pain or sadness.

— Kalki Koechlin

The moment someone asks you to do something you don't have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.

— Brene Brown

In the Horn of Africa now, there are tens of thousands dying from the extreme vulnerability they are living in.

— Jan Egeland

I am a thinned-skinned type. I am very sensitive, very emotional. Vulnerability is kind of always a part of my day.

— Ani DiFranco

“Through experience, he had learnt to pick up all of the unmistakable signs of vulnerability in a woman, everything that pointed to…

— Alice Walsh

As a color, red represents so many things - power, sensuality, vulnerability, and strength.

— Ariana DeBose

Everyone had a weakness. It was the law of nature that for each being there was a predator, or a disease, or…

— Ilona Andrews

It's always interesting to play characters who are vulnerable and how you display that vulnerability and what it's going to mean to…

— Samuel L. Jackson

“Courage is vulnerability. Vulnerability is courage. Like shadow and light, neither one can exist without the other.”

— Wai Lan Yuen

There's a lot of vulnerability in songs - I'm not talking about pop songs - from people that are in the art…

— Mary Gauthier

“[N]obody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.”

— Rebecca West

When we have emotions of fear and pity toward the hero of a tragedy, we explore aspects of our own vulnerability in…

— Martha Nussbaum