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Why bother? I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood.
I'm really vulnerable onstage because it's just me. I'm not really trying to put up a front or act a certain way.
It is hard for me to be vulnerable, because I never learned how to do that. I was never vulnerable in a safe way.
The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.
If we turn our back on the world's most vulnerable people, we're eschewing the values our country was founded on.
If you start from a position of I'm a no-hoper, in a paradoxical kind of way you are not risking being vulnerable.
I feel positive when I feel vulnerable, because it's another reminder that it's not all about me and about my ego.
Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I'm no different. It's just human nature.
The sign of a civilised society is how we treat the most vulnerable and our social care system is not up to scratch.
Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us.
I believe that being dependent makes you more vulnerable. I believe work is the greatest gift you will ever receive.
A society can be judged by how it deals with its most vulnerable: the aged, the infirm, the disabled and the unborn.
If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.
When you meet somebody who is vulnerable, there is an attraction. There is something to that. There is beauty there.
Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
Despite all the achievements of civilisation, the human being is still one of the most vulnerable creatures on earth.
If you don't know you're in a state of grace, then you're vulnerable to the paralysis of the accusations of the enemy.
I feel vulnerable when I am underprepared. This applies to underpreparedness with just about anything, especially work.
We judge people in areas where we're vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we're doing.
When my stepfather died, I just kind of fell apart. I felt pretty vulnerable, like there literally could be no tomorrow.
The thing about nightmares was that you couldn't prepare for them. They sneaked up on you when you were most vulnerable.
When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art.
Specialization makes the welfare of the society vulnerable to the market and to political forces beyond national control.
Music doesn't always bring me to tears; if I hear "Love" by John Lennon at a vulnerable moment it will bring me to tears.
It's difficult for most of us to be completely honest with ourselves - we hate to admit how vulnerable or needful we are.
Humans are vulnerable and rely on the kindnesses of the earth and the sun; we exist together in a sacred field of meaning.
I really feel vulnerable when I don't have the answer to something. When I feel lack of control, my nerves really kick in.
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
It’s good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn’t lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people.
Honestly, not being well received makes me feel very vulnerable. Not being included or regarded highly enough makes me crazy.
If I ever asked you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked a woman and been totally vulnerable.
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
I am as vulnerable and fragile as it is possible to be. I am shredded to the core. I am at the point where I am stripped bare.
Rising inequality can create a more highly leveraged economy, and it can then make the economy vulnerable to a crash like 2008.
As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.
Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.
I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.
When I'm speaking on stage I feel my most empowered and my most vulnerable. So much could go wrong. That tension is such a rush.
Because our agriculture is so spread out, that makes it vulnerable. Our food gets transported a number of times and very widely.
The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?
The need to be loved and protected is at a peak when we feel abandoned and are particularly vulnerable to difficult circumstances.
That's why the Kanye Wests and the Drakes are just in a different league, because they have the ability to be vulnerable and open.
We can be shiny and perfect and admired, or we can be real and honest and vulnerable and loved. But we actually do have to choose.
For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen.
There's something really vulnerable about playing something that you like for someone. You don't know what their reaction will be.
Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
I don't see how a person can be sensuous - unless they're just, you know, following some kind of script - without being vulnerable.
When we are aware of our inner-growth potential yet have no pretensions about ourselves, when we are vulnerable, then we can change.
Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.
Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable.