Unprotected Quotes

… you only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out..

I never think that walls can protect you.

Weakness is provocation.

In 1986, I was attacked in the street as I helped Neil Mullarkey from the Comedy Store Players to put up posters. We were in the wrong place at the wrong time - midnight - and we were English. I got kicked in the head.

The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.

I stood in this unsheltered place, 'til I could see the face behind the face.

I hate being barefoot.

An unguarded strength is a double weakness.

You come into the NBA, dudes are trying to come after you. You're a rookie. They look at you as fresh meat.

Emotionally, I've always worn my heart on my sleeve.

The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.

O Liberty...! is it well To leave the gates unguarded?

It's a bitter thing to have one or more defenders missing.

I know there's a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.

On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.

I would beg ... to add my plea for the Colored Girls of the South:-- that large, bright, promising fatally beautiful class ... so full of promise and possibilities, yet so sure of destruction; often without a father to whom they dare apply the loving term, often without a stronger brother to espouse their cause and defend their honor with his life's blood; in the midst of pitfalls and snares, waylaid by the lower classes of white men, with no shelter, no protection.

I'm inside out. I'm transparent. I'm open for the world to see.

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.

Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.

It is not good not to have health insurance; that leaves the family very vulnerable.

Neither King nor anyone else is to be furnished protection.

I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.

It's very scary to allow the world to see you.

No one's going to hold your hand in the boxing business. And the people who do end up ripping you off.

You put yourself in the public eye. You're kind of an open target.