Quotes About Vulnerability

The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.

I'm always shocked when people feel threatened by me.

I think people let their guards down when they think that they're not being intimidated or they're not being threatened.

I'm threatened because of the amount of information I've provided to the United States.

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

I think for Beecher specifically, Keller was with him when his wife died. Beecher had decided after he first got into prison that he had to shut off everybody. You can't let anybody in and you have to become like them and you have to be threatening and all that.

Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats.

I've had threats.

I know people like to read about serial killers and spies, but most of us will never encounter these things. Sadly, most of the threats we encounter are at home.

People have posted my personal information on the Internet. This has resulted in additional emails, calls, and threats. My family and I were forced to move out of our home.

We take all potential threats to public and private sector systems seriously and will continue to investigate and hold accountable those who pose a threat in cyberspace.

I have experienced threats. Not just to me, but to my family.

I receive many death threats. I used to love walking around New York City alone, but I can't do that anymore.

I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.

When I meet a girl I like, I call her the next day. I don't play that three-day rule. Maybe that's psycho.

Any online dating profile is about making us more human, more three-dimensional.

I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.

You'd think a guy who has broken 35 bones in his body would have a high pain threshold, but mine is pretty low. I got hit in the shin with a golf ball once, and it almost brought tears to my eyes. I've had broken bones that didn't hurt as bad.

My wife's an architect, so she definitely has a very high-risk artistic profession, and she gets the idea that you're really sensitive, you really care what people think, you have a low threshold for criticism.

The Gottman Institute's study about arguments in long-term relationships concludes that couples with the best chance at long-term success are the ones with a low negativity threshold: if something's wrong, they speak up about it immediately. That's something I've taken on board.

On my first day teaching my own classroom, I threw up before I entered the building.

The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk.

In camp when I was eight - a bunch of kids threw me outside naked. I got 'em back!

The song 'Almost Lover' is very important to me, because when I wrote it, I threw everything away. That kind of set the bar as a writer, as a singer, as a person.