Quotes About Vulnerability

We're very, very flawed, myself included.

I think everybody, including myself, are in danger of losing our humanity.

There's something delicious about finding fault with something. And that can be including finding fault with one's self, you know?

A lot of electronic music out there feels cold. I want to incorporate a human element.

Kids increase people's risk of eviction.

All countries will feel the increasing effects of dangerous climate change and it is those least able to bear it who are already being hurt first and hardest.

I've become increasingly agoraphobic.

Being a comedian is an incredible thing, but it can be scary sometimes.

I think it's incredibly cute when a guy can't dance and doesn't care about how crazy he looks.

I'm getting better now, but I used to be incredibly awkward with girls. I think any guy who says 'I've never had an awkward moment with a girl' is a liar.

To expose a first draft to anyone's ears other than your own is indecent.

I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14.

It's one of them things that no matter how indestructible we look like we are, we're all human at the end of the day. We all got feelings... all of that.

Quand j'arriverai chez nous ce soir, ce sera marée basse. C'est ainsi que je préfère la mer : vaincue, retirée mais hypocrite, laissant une frange de ses trésors à nu et feignant la soumission.

The essence of a perfect friendship is that each friend reveals himself utterly to the other, flings aside his reserves and shows himself for what he truly is.

Finally, don't forget black swans. All projects are vulnerable to unpredictable shocks, with their vulnerability growing as time passes. So the fact that the delivery of your one huge thing will take a very long time means that it is at high risk of being walloped by something you cannot possibly anticipate.

The infirmity of human nature renders all plans precarious in the execution in proportion as they are extensive in design.

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display.... The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.

To be naked is to be without disguises.

I've heard about you Each word about you That ev'ryone has spoken And from the things I hear I should be careful, dear They come and find me And then remind me Of all the hearts you've broken But I'm in love with you So what am I to do? I'm playing with fire

When writing of oneself one should show no mercy. Yet why at the first attempt to discover one's own truth does all inner strength seem to melt away in floods of self-pity and tenderness and rising tears?

I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.

For the Fabers, isolating Leslie in a program for the retarded helped protect her, but only for the six hours of the school day. The rest of the time, they could only hope their child had enough judgment to stay out of trouble. No matter what precautions they took, parents could never be sure.

It was a moment parents of a retarded daughter dread: their child out there on her own, drowning in the rough seas of male adolescent sexuality. Their child, whose idea of a friend is someone who play with her nicely, trying to be friends with a bunch of guys whose idea of play is pornography and voyeurism. It wasn't an even match.