Quotes About Vulnerability

Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat out denial of the gospel of grace.

We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation.

For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious.

Computers can bully us. A slow and unreliable system will bring even the toughest soul to their knees as they find themselves completely defenseless against the erratic whims of their rogue machine.

Domestic employees are at the whim of their employers.

When your economy is subject to the whims of Libya and Nigeria and Venezuela, you have a problem.

On 'Far North,' we were always aware of being at the whim of mother nature. She's the biggest star in the film.

A diverse customer base helps insulate you; a few large accounts can leave you vulnerable to their whims.

As an actor, you do feel very powerless... you are at the whim of the agent who submits you for a project, and then at the audition, you are at the whim of the casting director who will cast you or not.

'Cry Baby' is like this fairytale version of me. A lot of it is based on real events, and some of it is made up to make it more whimsical.

I love pouring my heart out. People don't want to hear you whine when you're with friends, so you can sing about it instead - it's the best outlet.

Let me tell you, I've never heard a man whine more than Jason Momoa getting knocked around by little ol' me.

I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.

I walked on eggshells a lot. I have a bad self-esteem problem, and my father probably facilitated it. He once looked at me very seriously when I was about 15 and had whipped cream smeared all over myself. He said, 'You'd do anything for a laugh, wouldn't you?'

Love always had my number. I could never patch a breakup together with whiskey and a one-night stand. I took them real hard.

You put three girls in a house, and all of a sudden before you know it, you're talking about boys and drinking whiskey, and things go down and you get deep real quick.

If your character is just out there acting a fool, viewers are gonna say, 'Why am I watching this?' But if he's whispering, 'I don't really want to die,' there's a level of vulnerability cemented in these bad characters.

I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.

I had a few brushes with death, where I nearly chose to go. The final one in 1996 did it for me. I suddenly had that feeling that I wasn't indestructible. There was no big white light experience, I just felt this complete blackness and a huge voice inside me saying, 'This is not right.'

The first time I heard 'White Man in Hammersmith Palais,' I loved the vulnerability in the music and the lyrics.

I knew from day one, the truth would prevail, but I was so scared I didn't know what to do.

After we have put our intimate secrets and credit card numbers online, what can prevent us from putting our elections there as well?

We've both been married before and our previous experiences made us fearful of commitment.

Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.