Vulnerability Quotes - page 7

Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike. (Stephanie Coontz)
As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know that our love has taken the socially sanctioned form of egotism. View quote
Germaine Greer
I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that candor comes a measure of vulnerability. View quote
Sonia Sotomayor
Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It is vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear. View quote
Michelle Obama
Countries that perceive themselves to be vulnerable can be expected to try to redress that vulnerability - and in some cases, they will pursue clandestine weapons programs. View quote
Mohamed ElBaradei
Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy. View quote
Zadie Smith
Generations of Americans will pay the Republican campaign debt to the energy industry with global instability, depleted national coffers and increased vulnerability to price shocks in the oil market. They will also pay with reduced prosperity and quality of life at home. Pollution from power plants and traffic smog will continue to skyrocket. Carbon-dioxide emissions will aggravate global warming. Acid rain from Midwestern coal plants has already sterilized half the lakes in the Adirondacks and destroyed the forest cover in the high peaks of the Appalachian range up into Canada. The administration's attacks on science and the law have put something even greater at risk. Americans need to recognize that we are facing not just a threat to our environment but to our values, and to our democracy. View quote
Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr.
To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt. View quote
Susan Sontag
America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail. View quote
Oriana Fallaci
I have known people who ... radiate vulnerability .... Their facial expressions say 'I am afraid of you.' View quote
Ted Bundy
On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America. (George W. Bush)
Most of us fall in love with someone's persona and spend the next three to five years discovering who that person really is. If you can stay connected through that process of raw vulnerability, I think you have a shot at the prize of knowing and accepting another human being for who and what they really are after years of highs and lows. View quote
Jennifer Aniston
What an extraordinary combination was Stella Adler - a goddess of full of magic and mystery, a child full of innocence and vulnerability. View quote
Stella Adler
I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic. View quote
Dick Cavett
It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul. View quote
Desmond Tutu
Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That's an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can't cheat real connection. It's built up slowly. It's about trust and time. View quote
Brené Brown
Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous. View quote
Brené Brown
Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce. View quote
Brené Brown
For me, vulnerability led to anxiety, which led to shame, which led to disconnection, which led to Bud Light. View quote
Brené Brown
Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome. Vulnerability is not weakness; it's our greatest measure of courage. View quote
Brené Brown
People who wade into discomfort and vulnerability and tell the truth about their stories are the real badasses. (Brené Brown)
The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness. View quote
Brené Brown
Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It's tough to do that when we're terrified about what people might see or think. View quote
Brené Brown
Korean nationalism is its emphasis on the vulnerability of the race. View quote
Brian Reynolds Myers
[T]he main threat to the South's security is the general lack of public identification with the ROK and its values, as opposed to any widespread vulnerability to the personality cult. View quote
Brian Reynolds Myers