Quotes About Vulnerability

Leaders today are isolated by phalanxes of body guards. It's profoundly undemocratic, the way they have used terrorism as a means to protect themselves.

Childhood is just this amazing place, and in my books, I was trying to express my concern about childhood being eroded. You have kids' TV programs being interrupted by terrorist attacks, and kids are exposed to so much these days.

The Staten Island Ferry remains a potential terrorist target.

There is a series of sectors which could be severely disrupted by terrorist attacks, particularly if they were to happen in several member states simultaneously.

If you look at the terrorist attacks around the world, they're in places where there is no security - a club or a movie theater or wherever.

No one is born a terrorist, but the route to become one is surprisingly easy. We need to listen to those who have been there, and those who have made their way back, if we want to stop others from taking their first steps down this same path into darkness.

The poor people of the world tend to be the places that al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups can recruit.

By having the President's name on buildings, that is a potential terrorist target.

National security is not just things that go boom. It is not just terrorists and foreign adversaries.

It's very difficult to tell someone how to protect themselves from a terrorist attack, whether it occurs in the U.S. or on foreign soil, particularly when you have terrorists with no concern for human life.

They only have to be right one time, the terrorists do, and we have to be wrong one time.

Aircraft are always going to be something that terrorists are interested in because you bring down an airliner, you have drawn the world's attention.

The reality is that we can no longer sleep soundly at night thinking that if we keep the terrorists 'out there,' we are safe inside our homes and offices. That illusion is gone.

I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength.

I do not say that, when brought to the test, I shall be invincible.

I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.

I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human.

We've been tested by every force of nature, disease, and human frailty.

Testimony always comes from people who are in some way disempowered.

For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.

The power of healing comes through the wound. If the physician is healed, he will lose his power to heal others.

Most kids here could kill you in two seconds flat, me included. Bruce is hilarious. He acts all macho, but he's a total baby sometimes. After he finished basic training and got his grey shirt he heard all the little red shirt kids were going on an Easter egg hunt. They wouldn't let him go so he burst into tears. He laid in his room and cried for like, three hours.

love must be regarded as one of the religious and dangerous experiences, because it lifts people out of the arms of reason and sets them afloat with no ground under their feet.

For friends and lovers are quick to wound, quicker than strangers, even; the heart that opens itself to the world, opens itself to sorrow.