Quotes About Vulnerable

Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.

As lacking in privacy as a goldfish.

By then, the coupling of atheism with Communism had become a staple in the rhetoric of anti-Communist crusaders throughout the nation. Intellectuals as a group were highly vulnerable on this score because many were, if not unabashed atheists, secular humanists with little regard for traditional religion. If

Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do, especially if the target is unprepared. I

So supportive. So duplicitous. So self-destructive. Like a moth to a flame.

When you make a movie, it's just so personal and then you put it out in front of people and it becomes something else.

Further, we are victims to a new disease, called in this book neomania, that makes us build Black Swan–vulnerable systems—"progress.

I have no problem with risk taking, just please, please, do not call yourself conservative and act superior to other businesses who are not as vulnerable to Black Swans.

In those days before the Thunderhead, human arrogance, self-interest, and endless in-fighting determined the rule of law. Inefficient. Imperfect. Vulnerable to all forms of corruption.

Shanghai, with an average altitude of thirteen feet, is among the many Asian cities vulnerable to rising waters.

On the wide quay, with the massive brick warehouses rising up darkly on his right and the two imposing steamships towering above him on his left, Johnny appeared quite solitary and vulnerable. "Holmes, did young Mr. Rockefeller seem upset to you?" "Youth can be a difficult advantage to bear," said Holmes.

When your novel first peeks its head into the world, it will look pretty much like every newborn: blotchy, hairless, and utterly confused.

focused, therefore, on how something as grotesque as the demonization of an entire race could take root inside the most delicate member of society: a child; the most vulnerable member: a female.

We are particularly susceptible to bias when we are hurting or desperate. An

she looked fragile enough that she might shatter if touched.

Critical reading is a civic act; it's the kind of reading that asks you to be both sharp and vulnerable to both the world of the book and the world the book emerges from; the kind of reading that asks you to bear witness to the things in a book that speak low and deep to some low and deep part of you, which might not always say easy or comforting things.

Compassion fatigue is a common phenomenon, and nurses are especially vulnerable.

We often take these social rituals for granted, but we do so at our own peril. They are more fragile than we think. Like fine crystal, they break easily and are hard to glue back together.

As we mentioned in the preamble, banks' role in effecting maturity transformation—transforming short-term deposit funding into long-term loans—makes them uniquely vulnerable to bank runs

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.

My priorities are always the children and the elderly when it comes to our healthcare system, as both groups are unable to help themselves.

I'm not unbeatable.