Quotes About Vulnerable

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.

I was tired of secrets, tired of seeing things I was not supposed to see. And so I just cried.

Of the world's eight species of bears, six are categorized either as "vulnerable" to extinction or "endangered.

As with any young species, this one's position is precarious.

Little Alice, all hollowed out, so easy to smash into a million little pieces.

It is the goal of law to protect the vulnerable against the predator and the exploiter, but the law cannot eradicate evil from the human heart.

I was so gullible as a kid.

Women are tough campaigners. They certainly know how to withstand attacks. And I think we make a mistake if we say, as some do, that women should play by different rules, or that they are somehow especially vulnerable to the rules of politics. I don't think that's true.

I know what it's like to be threatened. I know what it's like to be humiliated and targeted.

For society indeed of all sorts, except of course that of a few intimate friends, he had an unconquerable aversion. "I always did hate those people," he said, "and they always have hated and always will hate me. I am an Ihsmael by instinct as much as by accident of circumstances, but if I keep out of society I shall be less vulnerable than Ishmaels generally are. The moment a man goes into society, he becomes vulnerable all round.

We are extremely vulnerable because we take too much time to implement the necessary measures. This is a painful process. When you go through a painful process - make it as short as possible

Every new increase in the vast imperial organism seemed to me an unsound growth, like a cancer or dropsical edema which would eventually cause our death.

And everything is vulnerable to harm, one way or another. Everybody is vulnerable. It's kind of horrible when you think about it. All that breakage, without so much as an intention behind it half the time. All that tantalizing fragility.

She looked at me as if I were a snag in tights.

weak as water.

I know the Press only too well. Almost all editors hide away in spider-dens, men without thought of Family or Public Interest or the humble delights of jaunts out-of-doors, plotting how they can put over their lies, and advance their own positions and fill their greedy pocketbooks by calumniating Statesmen who have given their all for the common good and who are vulnerable because they stand out in the fierce Light that beats around the Throne. Zero Hour, Berzelius Windrip.

Emma, I'm sorry, I can't help you. This is a disaster. You're completely vulnerable. It's like going into battle in a nightie.

Normal Christian life is a process of restoration and renewal. Our joy is not static. It fluctuates with real life. It is vulnerable to satan's attacks.

In Washington, the venerable were often vulnerable.

Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead.

she felt incredibly fragile, which was not how she liked to feel.

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.

George Washington once wrote that leading by conviction gave him "a consolation within that no earthly efforts can deprive me of." He continued: "The arrows of malevolence, however barbed and well pointed, never can reach the most vulnerable part of me.

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