Quotes About Vulnerability

That's not me anymore, I told you! I was a scared little girl, I thought— I thought if I knew all the rules, then that would mean—that would mean nothing would happen to me!

No one knows what it's like to be the bad man. —Peter Townsend, "Behind Blue Eyes

Si se requiere mucho valor para admitir que no conoces todas las respuestas, imagina lo difícil que es admitir que nis siquiera conoces la pregunta.

The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.

Say yes to life, even though you know it may devour you.

Azt hiszem a bizalom a legsérülékenyebb az erények közül; mivel kényes, könnyen törik, és ha egyszer összetört, többé sohasem lehet helyreállítani.

T]hose who insist they've got their 'shit together' are usually standing in it at the time. (16)

Relate to the fear, not just from it. (50)

Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic.

The harder we press on a violin string, the less we can feel it. The louder we play, the less we hear. . . . If I 'try' to play, I fail; if I race, I trip. The only road to strength is vulnerability.

Fewer than one in twenty security professionals has the core competence and the foundation knowledge to take a system all the way from a completely unknown state of security through mapping, vulnerability testing, password cracking, modem testing, vulnerability patching, firewall tuning, instrumentation, virus detection at multiple entry points, and even through back-ups and configuration management.

To protect those least able to protect themselves. That much, at least, has not changed. That was ever the sole purpose and duty of kingship. Since the beginning of time it has not changed.

la justicia debería proteger alguna vez a aquellos menos capaces de protegerse a sí mismos. ¿O ha cambiado eso?

as is most always the case with any disaster, it is those who can least afford to lose who lose the most.

justice ought sometimes to protect those least able to protect themselves.

I write out those things no child should ever have been made to know

Don't run from your weakness, you will only give it strength.

Sometimes people put walls up to see who is strong enough to break them down!

Humans, unlike Jedi, are powerfully afraid of rejection. We do not survive well alone, so humans as a species are especially vulnerable to thoughts that make us afraid the rest of the "tribe" will desert us to die a sad, lonely death.

Locking ourselves in the situation where we wish for sympathy and want to be looked at as the aggrieved party normally makes us powerless.

I will not go into detail but the screw put up a little bit of a resistance, fair play to him, but we were so desperate for the drugs in her medical bag that nothing was going to stop us getting at them. That is what happened, we got the bag of drugs from her hand. I can tell you, we were like two tramps round a bag of chips in a bin.

I was reading that there are children at the age of twelve and thirteen selling their bodies at dinnertimes for as little as £5 when they should be at school. Now if that is not a problem, I don't know what is. The drug problem has got way too far out of hand.

Just as much as the media portray child sexual exploitation as being a 'hidden' crime, then that is no less of a case with child physical abuse.

He lost a few teeth and wet himself in to the next century. I looked up at his mates and none of them would look me in the face.