Quotes About Vulnerability

Back then, I had no idea that I'd ever feel unsafe in America or be preparing for disaster myself. We seemed to stand monolithic and invulnerable at the center of the political, cultural, and moral universe, unchallenged as the world's lone superpower. For

It's between weak guys and strong guys. Women are drawn to men who demonstrate strength—not necessarily physical strength, but the ability to make them feel safe. So if you're a nice guy, you can still be nice. But you must also be strong.

I realized the mistake I'd been making my whole life: to get a woman, you have to be willing to risk losing her. What if she reacts me? Yeah, and what if a meteor hits your house.

Relationships are like divining rods for locating one's faults and weaknesses.

But I have never been sure that we are all talking about the same thing when we talk about love. Perhaps real love is too boring to talk about. Heartbreak is so much easier to understand that I think we might sometimes employ it as an understudy, a stand-in for the real thing.

If it hadn't been for that, I'd have gone on to the end, never seeing any of you. But that did something to me, and I've been so lonely since! You can't know. Not close to a single soul. Never anyone to really talk to.

What right, she kept demanding of herself, had Clare Kendry to expose her, or even Gertrude Martin, to such humiliation, such downright insult?

American literature isn't anybody phoning to anybody or anybody writing about anybody. American literature is the woman in the courtroom who, finding herself undefended on a charge, asked, 'Isn't anybody on my side?' It's also the phrase I used that was once used in court of a kid who, on being sentenced to death, said, 'I knew I'd never get to be twenty-one anyhow.

Detective Ramos confided in me, 'If something happens to you on my watch my ass is O-U-T.' 'How do you think I'd feel? D-E-A-D.

The surest way to get your head blown off is to have it up your ass.

Neither a fortress nor a virgin will hold out long after they begin to negotiate.

I tell you what," said Troy more amiably. "I've always been frightened of the whole business. Love and so on." "The physical side?" "Yes, that, but much more than that. The whole business. The breaking down of all one's reserves. The mental as well as the physical intimacy." "My mind to me a kingdom is.

They achieved this by learning a crucial lesson: in finance small is seldom beautiful. By making their bank bigger and more diversified than any previous financial institution, they found a way of spreading their risks. And by engaging in currency trading as well as lending, they reduced their vulnerability to defaults.

The wildest friend, the one you once saw walk up to a boy of about five or six who'd been left alone for a minute and say, "Did you know your mom's fucking hot?" that one, that friend. He's always the one who falls the hardest. He's always the one who disappears the most completely when he finds a woman that will put up with him.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

Men are so simple, and governed so absolutely by their present needs, that he who wishes to deceive will never fail in finding willing dupes.

Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.

porque nunca hay que dejarse caer creyendo que vas a encontrar a alguien que te recoja. Esto o no sucede o, si sucede, pierdes tu seguridad, porque ese tipo de defensa es vil y no depende de ti. Sólo son buenas, seguras y duraderas las defensas que dependen de ti mismo y de tu virtud.

For I do not believe that divisions purposely caused can ever lead to good; on the contrary, when an enemy approaches, divided cities are lost at once, for the weaker faction will always side with the invader, and the other will not be able to stand alone.

Truth only means something when it's hard to admit.

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...

She wasnt exactly sure when it happened. Or even when it started. All she knew for sure was that right here and now, she was falling hard and she could only pray that he was feeling the same way.

Women want the fairytale. Not all women, of course, but most women grow up dreaming about the kind of man who would risk everything for them, even knowing they might get hurt.

You have to promise you won't fall in love with me.