Quotes About Vulnerability

What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?

Naked means you don't have on clothes. Necked means you don't have on clothes and are up to something.

unwed mothers nursing unbaptised infants on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange

The megamachine is an elephant that fears even the smallest mouse.

For one second the woman and I seemed to become twins, or closer than twins, the same person together. Maybe we said nothing. Maybe we only lay in the band of sunlight that fell across our bed. Or maybe together we said, "There is great pain in all love, but we don't care, it's worth it.

All my music is driven by an urge to connect with people, to share with them in the experience of being human - the good, the bad, and the ugly!

I realized that even though I had this urge, this longing, to write about other people, in order for it to be emotionally gripping, I needed to be in there somehow.

And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency.

The attacks of September 11 persuaded many Americans that what might seem to be obscure or distant potential threats can very quickly materialize and it therefore makes sense to attend to them even before they become urgent.

The Internet gave us access to everything; but it also gave everything access to us.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

When we're looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.

No one has got close enough to use or abuse me, and even if they did, I wouldn't get too emotional about it. The only thing I ever get emotional about is my family. I am kind to everyone but I trust no one. That keeps me from getting hurt.

I used music as therapy and embraced being a cry baby.

I used to sleep nude - until the earthquake.

I used to be afraid of pain, didn't take a lot of risks, especially in love. I'm not as afraid anymore. I'm more spontaneous, more likely to say what I think.

No man wants to accept they could be getting used for money. But it's OK for them to let us know that they use us?

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Insurance is important for protecting the health of people and Ujjwala is quite useful to low-income women.

I'm not an easy person to love. There are lots of times when I'm a very good boyfriend, but there are times when I'm useless. I mean, I'm a mess around the house. I talk nonstop. I become obsessed with things.

There's something that happens in that delivery room, when a woman becomes ten times more a woman, and a guy becomes six times less a man. You feel really dopey and useless and like a spectator. I did, anyway.

I've always been someone who needs someone with them to poke and annoy. I'm useless at being by myself.