Quotes About Vulnerability

If we have no control over who reads what and when, we have no ability to act in the present or plan for the future. Whoever can pierce your privacy can humiliate you and disrupt your relationships at will.

Whoever can pierce your privacy can humiliate you and disrupt your relationships at will. No

We might be tempted to think that our democratic heritage automatically protects us from such threats. This is a misguided reflex.

Europeans and Americans wasted time by asking whether an invasion had taken place, whether Ukraine was a country, and whether it had somehow deserved to be invaded. This revealed a capacious vulnerability that Russia soon exploited within the European Union and the United States.

Whoever can pierce your privacy can humiliate you and disrupt your relationships at will. No one (except perhaps a tyrant) has a private life that can survive public exposure by hostile directive.

It was an American and not a Russian innovation to present the news as national entertainment, which made the news vulnerable to an entertainer. Trump got his chance in the second half of 2015 because American television networks were pleased with the spectacle he provided. The chief executive officer of a television network said that the Trump campaign "may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS.

Ninguém (excepto, talvez, um tirano) tem uma vida privada capaz de sobreviver à exposição pública com intenções hóstis.

Some people say, Never let them see you cry." I say, if you're so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.

If I don't wield the sword, I can't protect you. If I keep wielding the sword, I can't embrace you. -Ichigo Kurosaki

And if those things are textiles, stories about women's lives seem to adhere with special tenacity, even as fabrics, because of their vulnerability to deterioration and frequent lack of attribution to a maker, have been among the last kinds of materials that historians look to in order to understand what has occurred, how, and why.

When we are green, still half-created, we believe that our dreams are rights, that the world is disposed to act in our best interests, and that falling and dying are for quitters. We live on the innocent and monstrous assurance that we alone, of all the people ever born, have a special arrangement whereby we will be allowed to stay green forever

Whatever it is that makes closeness possible between people also puts them in the way of hard feelings if that closeness ends.

I had made the fatal mistake of believing in his touch, as if the intelligence of his hands, our orgasms, the way he penetrated me, had affected him as much as it had affected me. Perhaps this is the catch cry of the egoist: I love, therefore I must be loved. Perhaps it is the Achilles' heel of my gender.

The heart is a bloody thing.

What's great about love is we don't know how the other is going to respond to our openness. When love is turned into a commodity, that aspect is totally lost.

Love depends on the embrace of what is undesirable in the Other.

If you've never known someone your own age who's died, you can't imagine what it feels like. It's as if you were walking on a glass floor and it suddenly shatters and now you're falling and falling and there's broken glass in the air all around you and no bottom in sight.

Maar plotseling begon mijn hart sneller te slaan, mijn hand beefde en drukte de zijne; ik werd warm en met mijn ogen zocht ik in het halfduister zijn blik en plotseling voelde ik, dat ik niet bang voor hem was, maar dat deze angst liefde was, een nieuwe liefde, groter en inniger dan vroeger.

As we made love, our scars met, grazing long enough for mine to say "He tries to hide me," and for yours to reply "I know I embarrass her." "He never learned how to swim," whispered my scar. "She got picked last in gym class, then cried into her pillow," replied yours. Just then, a huge wound opened in me. You touched it. It closed. I was filled, fully healed, and I knew I would never be able not to love you.

Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.

Most things in here don't react well to bullets.

Alan parafraseó la cita y la llevaba siempre en su billetera: "En el preciso instante en que todos dicen lo grande que es uno, es cuando uno se torna en más vulnerable". Walt la había llamado la "Zona Roja". Alan se imaginó que ya se encontraba en la Zona Roja y estaba determinado a evitar sus peligros.

It never occurred to me that I was going to have to talk to a camera. I don't know if I can do this.

I felt that everyone had the same sentiments when it came to love that I did. I felt like if you really cared for somebody, then that was it. It never occurred to me that people could lie about the way they felt about you. I had to learn that the hard way.