Vulnerable Quotes

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.

Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.

The Commission's findings underscore that the nation is still vulnerable to attack and that we must move more quickly to make us safer. We must take the Commission's work and use it to make certain that such horrific attacks never occur again.

I am resigning because my secret leaves the governor's office vulnerable.

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.

I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony.

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.

If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything.

We have a responsibility as a state to protect our most vulnerable citizens: our children, seniors, people with disabilities. That is our moral obligation. But there is an economic justification too - we all pay when the basic needs of our citizens are unmet.

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

As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.

I've certainly experienced racism, but it has not made a great impact on me. I have always thought, as I got older and older, I was more in charge of who I was. What someone thought about me or said about me made less of an impression on me at very vulnerable times.

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

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.

If you get married, you become vulnerable.

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

They just wanted to show the entertainment world that we're vulnerable.

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

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status.

Let's continue to stand up for those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized.

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.

I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them.

I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.

So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you thought weren't vulnerable all of the sudden get in trouble.

The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.