Quotes About Vulnerability

The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, describes the DNS system as the "one centralized Achilles' heel by which {the Web} can all be brought down or controlled.

If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught.

Don't let down your guard," he warned. "And stay close to me." "I think I'm going to throw up." He took a deliberate step backward. "Then that staying-close thing was more of a metaphor.

I've learned if there's one gift you can give yourself in life, it's the freedom and courage to say "I don't know". Because I'll let you into a secret – you don't have to know. You don't have to know how you feel, or what you want, or if you're happy or if you're sad.

Because if what started out as me just trying to be truthful and tell it like it is has struck a chord with other people feeling just as flawed and confused as I do – and if in some small way it's helped by showing them they're not alone; that I'm here and I hear them – then that's the biggest bonus of all.

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

I think he wants to use you to get to me, because I'm hard to corner." Devlin picked up her suitcase. "Maybe if he figures if he threatens you, I'd walk into a trap bare-ass naked with my hands up." "And would you do that?" she asked, already knowing the answer. "In a minute and with a smile on my face.

Y yo no tendré miedo de morenas ni rubias, pues cerraré los ojos y te diré: soy tuya.

Aprender a dar pasos como un tímido niño que necesita aún solícito cariño; hallar que cada cosa es vieja, pero es nueva, que dentro de lo eterno lo viejo se renueva y en la hora en que vuelve la excelsitud de amar saber que algo en nosotros es capaz de volar.

no matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we're always licked by something from the inside. There's no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.

The most womanly woman.

L'humanité souleva sa robe et me montra, comme à un adepte digne d'elle, sa monstrueuse nudité.

Laurette ! Laurette ! Ah ! je me sens plus lâche qu'une femme. Mon désespoir me tue ; il faut que je pleure. ( RAZETTA )

What is the use of building an expensive house when it will soon be sacked?

they refuse to cry, because they don't ever want to feel again the anguish and the pain they've locked away inside. Abused individuals often don't cry for the same reason.

The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture.

In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington.

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.

Slow, skinny, and an utter countryside coward: I lived in dread of nettles, spiders, and the very sound of a wasp. As a victim, I was beneath the dignity of the bullies in my year but fair game to the ones in the year below.

At some point, we all reach that moment where it's such a waste of energy to act as if you know things that you really don't. It's really kind of liberating to be okay with that.

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

I really do feel like the work and time we spend avoiding having difficult conversations is so much more wasteful and painful and time-consuming than actually having the difficult conversation.

I trusted the wrong person with finances and the guy ended up breaking my bank. I lost my money in Ponzi schemes. If it wasn't enough to be wasting a lot of it, one of my best friends totally done me dirty and wiped me out.

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.