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We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone -
but paradoxically, if we cannot trust,
neither can we find love or joy.
- Walter Anderson

Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.
- Alan Greenspan

Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous,
but also more vulnerable.
- Lord Robertson

Death is an absolute mystery.
We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.
- Jeanne Moreau

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults.
In movies, they are given imaginary power.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool,
and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is
covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.
- Giacomo Casanova

I'm vulnerable to criticism.
Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and,
until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.
- Howard Hodgkin

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy
himself and his audience,
you need to be vulnerable.
- Jack Lemon

In the final analysis, terror is also another proof
of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower.
It was vulnerable.
- Ulrich Beck

Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you;
it's the most vulnerable that you can be.
But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.
- Fiona Apple

They just wanted to show the entertainment world that we're vulnerable.
- Tommy Chong

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution,
is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.
- Nathaniel Parker Willis

The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our
buildings and vehicles become,
the more vulnerable we are.
- Stephen Ambrose

Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable...
and you do something about social and cultural equality for women,
you're never going to defeat this pandemic.
- Stephen Lewis

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt.
Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.
- Jeanette Winterson

There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate.
- John Sloan Dickey

We remain vulnerable.
There is no such thing as 100 percent security against terrorism.
- Gijs de Vries

The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead;
never let up.
- Rod Laver

When we were children, we used to think that when we
were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable.
But to grow up is to accept vulnerability...
To be alive is to be vulnerable.
- Madeleine L'Engle

The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future,
protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to
create jobs and economic security.
- Carl Levin

We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus
Garvey had in their times.
We just had a more vulnerable enemy.
- Stokely Carmichael

Without a Jewish state, the iron truth of history is
that the Jewish people sooner or later become even
more vulnerable to the next wave of anti-Semitism.
- Jack Schwartz

I have always been very obsessed with time.
Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because
we all experience it in our own way,
it can make us feel very alone.
- John Barton

I think sexy is vulnerability, and there's no way you can act vulnerable.
It just has to be there.
- Michael Zaslow

If you are a musician and you don't show any interest
on the business level then you are actually vulnerable
and people will rip you off.
They will sweet talk you into anything.
- Michael Schenker

As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable.
And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.
- Kate Beckinsale

I hope the film will help mothers and fathers to be
aware that 15 is a very vulnerable age.
- Ellen Muth

I am resigning because my secret leaves the governor's office vulnerable.
- James McGreevey

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness,
except greed.
- Thomas Harris

The more refined and subtle our minds,
the more vulnerable they are.
- Paul Tournier

Unless we have a well-educated people,
we're vulnerable on our national security.
- Mark Hatfield

The songs come from a vulnerable place,
but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless.
- Deana Carter

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
- Theodore Roethke

We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access
to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur -
only about one third of the estimated total population in need.
- Jan Egeland

An actor is totally vulnerable.
His total personality is exposed to critical judgment -
his intellect,
his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance.
In short, his ego.
- Alec Guinness

I think I'm extremely vulnerable and that in some ways I seek out rejection.
Never feeling like you're getting that pat on the back
from dad is probably at the heart of that.
- Skeet Ulrich

I do know the effect that music still has on me -
I'm completely vulnerable to it.
I'm seduced by it.
- Debbie Harry

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion,
which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept.
- Robert Bork

I find Jesus my confidant and companion,
brother and savior; our relationship is intimate,
vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring.
- Malcolm Boyd

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice,
the so-called tyranny of the majority.
- Maggie Gallagher

I can be extremely vulnerable.
People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.
- Yancy Butler

Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the
world in a vulnerable spot,
and I can take it by storm.
- Mary MacLane

We have to be vulnerable as actors, but we have to protect ourselves.
- Glenn Close

Sinatra, here's a guy who plays a tough guy in all his movies,
but was allowed to be vulnerable when he stepped up to the microphone.
- Michael Bolton

I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing
under circumstances not appropriate for a married man.
- Chuck Robb

The future of healthcare security should include flexibility
from the federal government to allow us to serve the
state's most vulnerable citizens.
- Thomas Vilsack

You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting.
When you're younger you don't want to look a fool,
so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.
- Tom Wilkinson

She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it
really is a story about people at the heart of it all.
- Emmy Rossum

The thing about doing anything artificial to your hair
is that you have to look after it.
So you're always vulnerable to the weather and time.
- Francesca Annis

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending
how open and vulnerable they wish to be.
- Jim Harrison

People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable.
- Catherine Deneuve

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think
more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you.
When you dare to reveal yourself fully.
When you dare to be vulnerable.
- Joyce Brothers

Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's
right to autonomy and personal fulfillment,
women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.
- Gloria Steinem

Medicaid is a vital safety net for New York's poor and vulnerable,
young and old alike.
- James T. Walsh

The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society,
and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it.
- Tim Bishop

So I think, if September 11 taught us anything,
it taught us that we're vulnerable, and vulnerable
in ways that we didn't fully understand.
- Condoleezza Rice

The Commission's findings underscore that the nation
is still vulnerable to attack and that we must move
more quickly to make us safer.
We must take the Commission's work and use it to make
certain that such horrific attacks never occur again.
- Lane Evans

Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon
our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval,
carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.
- Naomi Wolf

Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy:
Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on
and championing the cause.
Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes
and obstruction of justice.
- Barbara Olson

I'm very used to playing the tomboy or the sarcastic cynic.
That's my go-to.
Playing the vulnerable of a real girl that's in real womanlike situations,
where it's romanticized, I'm a little nervous about it.
- Kristen Bell

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help
the most vulnerable people in society.
It is a goal and an essential part of my life -
a kind of destiny.
Whoever is in distress can call on me.
I will come running wherever they are.
- Princess Diana

We have a responsibility as a state to protect our
most vulnerable citizens:
our children,
seniors, people with disabilities.
That is our moral obligation.
But there is an economic justification too -
we all pay when the basic needs of our citizens are unmet.
- John Lynch

I know certainly, when one job draws to a close,
that I feel I'm simply never going to work again.
No one will ever want me for anything ever again.
I think that's a vulnerable moment in every actor's life,
and it happens every time you finish a film.
- Anjelica Huston

Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black
market class of workers in our society,
jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules,
while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by
those willing to take advantage of their illegal status.
- Spencer Bachus

Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists:
those who teach that global justice is meaningless;
that satisfaction can come only in violence,
division, and intellectual isolation.
- Abdallah II

There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources.
Architects and designers have, I think,
a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials,
and making things durable.
- Robin Day

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship,
dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil,
all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace.
Preserved from annihilation only by the care,
the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
- Adlai E. Stevenson

It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful
ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process
vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled
out by illegally cast ballots.
- Virgil Goode

Though I am still very vulnerable to audiences -
and it happens all the time -
where for some reason the energy doesn't connect and,
since the film is very personal, obviously I am made
to feel very vulnerable by that.
- Atom Egoyan

I've certainly experienced racism, but it has not made a great impact on me.
I have always thought, as I got older and older,
I was more in charge of who I was.
What someone thought about me or said about me made
less of an impression on me at very vulnerable times.
- Robert Guillaume

While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years
of independence from French colonial rule,
the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty,
poor health, and political chaos.
- Eliot Engel