#vulnerable

Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#abolitionist #ahimsa #animals #francione #inspirational-quotes

Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#america #attention #block #curiosity #english

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

#guy #here #his #microphone #movies

Much healing can occur through the sexual act with a person you love and trust if the two of you can stay with each other during your most vulnerable moments. You enter into a sacred space, this unknown territory, from which you’ll emerge into new and unexpected states of being. ↗

— Alexandra Katehakis

#love #sacred-space #sex #unknown #vulnerable

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

#appearance #bearing #critical #diction #ego

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

— Rod Laver

#game #most #never #time #up

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

#i #i can #make #me #spot

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

#cultural #defeat #equality #going #most

But as a woman, I really started feeling vulnerable on the set, and I really felt that it was important that I should not be open for invitation or making myself look as though I was waiting for something. ↗

— John Lone

#felt #i #important #invitation #look

There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery. ↗

— Bob Schaffer

#anyone #ballot #ballot box #ballots #box