Quotes About Vulnerability

granaries would tempt thieves and enemies, compelling them to start building walls and doing guard duty.

Since all social orders and hierarchies are imagined, they are all fragile, and the larger the society, the more fragile it is.

Humans emerge from the womb like molten glass from a furnace.

Un imperio que no puede aguantar un golpe y seguir de pie no es realmente un imperio.

I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.

Sweet Pea: There are armed guards everywhere! And if Blue finds out, we're dead! Rocket: We're already dead.

With women the best part is the discovery. There's nothing like the first time, nothing. You don't know what life is until you undress a woman the first time. A button at a time, like peeling a hot sweet potato on a winter's night.

It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.

It's so funny. I honestly thought every one of those people on the show could beat anyone at any time anywhere. You just have to have a slightly off day or moment or two or you missed a touch of acid. It has nothing to do with credentials. Anyone could've chopped anyone at any time. I had to look at myself as the one who could lose this the most.

When you're hurt, you feel stupid because you think you should have seen it coming. But if we knew everything that was going to happen to us we wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.

Geopolitical pivots are the states whose importance is derived not from their power and motivation but rather from their sensitive location and from the consequences of their potentially vulnerable condition for the behavior of geostrategic players.

Third, sustained inflation also undermined the capacity of the system to sustain itself without social sacrifice, which the citizens were no longer prepared to make. Cultural decay, political division, and financial inflation conspired to make Rome vulnerable even to the barbarians in its near abroad.

Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.

David, I'll fly for you, if you'll love me!" "Fly, then." "I can't fly, but love me anyway." "Poor wingless child!" "Is it so hard to love me?" "Do you think you are easy, my illusive possession?

Won't we be quite the pair? You with your bad heart, me with my bad head. Together, though, we might have something worthwhile.

Most of us fail to appreciate the extent to which our behavior is under situational control, because we prefer to believe that is all is internally generated. We wander around cloaked in an illusion of vulnerability, mis-armed with an arrogance of free will and rationality.

Kada neko do?e sa namerom da ti nešto ukrade, on prigrabi šta god mu staviš nadomak ruke, makar i majušnu stvar.

if you take off your clothes, you will find more clothes.

I feel like she could drown me in a spoonful of water or crush me with her fingernail clippings. I realize I have no chance.

Belki de Scott'?n Cyn'i seksi bulup Anna'y? bulmamas?n?n sebebi Anna'n?n kendisini seksi bulmamas?yd?. Cyn gibi ç?lg?n ve vahÅŸi maceralar yaÅŸayamamas?n?n sebebi bunlara aç?k olmamas?yd?. Korkunç gerçek, on sekizine yaklaÅŸmas?na raÄŸmen Anna'n?n kabuÄŸunu k?ramam?? olmas?yd?.

Love was something that happened slowly, because you gave it time to grow. It couldn't come from fear or even from seduction. It came because you felt whole enough and strong enough all on your own to let another person in. It sounded cheesy. It was an utter cliché. But it was also true.

They will become afraid to the point of harming people after they've been hurt, even people who try to help them.

It takes bravery to care for someone — no matter who he is or what made him, whether he is weak or walking or jumping out of windows. The risk involved is enormous.