Quotes About Vulnerability

Your bodywoman is no doubt making the household miserable. Fear has made her vicious.

Perhaps she wasn't as good at it as he was. He cut too deep.

I could probably beat you at pool." She tucked a strand of hair behind her golden ear. "No, you couldn't." "I beat you at darts." "We're getting off the subject." "You just hate being beaten." "Call it one of my imperfections.

It was only now that she understood, for the first time, that despite her title, her uniform, and the two stars on her shoulder, she was as helpless as any native herder or farmer or sailor.

The imbecile does not discover the radical misery of our condition except when he is sick, poor, or old.

To hope that the growing vulnerability of a world increasingly integrated by technology will not demand a total despotism is mere foolishness.

Die Tyrannei eines Individuums ist dem Despotismus des Gesetzes vorzuziehen, denn der Tyrann ist verwundbar und das Gesetz unkörperlich.

What is threatening about a technological device is that it can be used by someone who lacks the intellectual capacity of the man who invented it.

Technology would present fewer dangers if manipulating it were not so simple for the imbecile and so profitable for the thief.

Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control.

Keep to Beauty. Have no fear. Learn to bear the unbearable. The raw of all things.

It's a very brave thing to fall in love. You have to be willing to trust somebody else with your whole being, and that's very difficult, really difficult and very brave.

I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.

Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you.

I was never a man of great ambition I cried too easily I didn't have a head for science Words often failed me While others prayed I only moved my lips

I'll kill him. You're mine, Nicole—not some stupid mortal that can't even put out a fire. Next time I'll let him burn. And if you try anything stupid like you did tonight, I'll let you burn too.

Complexity is the main enemy of security.

It takes two to make a relationship, but only one to screw it up.

You know in this moment that Gabriel is at your mercy, you can do what you want, he is completely yours and with the knowledge of that something goes,you can feel it slip from you like a fish through the net.

He] starts to talk and stops, feeling his way, as if it's all clogged up rusty inside.

The shame dies. Just like that, so DH Lawrence wrote. Shame, which is fear. AND judgement.

I've not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me...I've not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away-

A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die

Best thing about friends: they know you inside and out. Worst thing about friends: They know you inside and out. My turtle shell is useless.