Vulnerable Position Quotes

All that I am hangs by a thread tonight

I'm always standing on the edge of something bad.

Being out in the street is not an expectation of privacy. Anyone can look at you, can see you, can watch what you're doing.

Comedy is such a vulnerable thing. With drama, you're not trying to make someone cry. If you do, great, but that's not your goal. With comedy, you're trying to make someone laugh, so to me, it's harder because you are in such a vulnerable position. You're like, 'I hope people like this. I hope I do the joke justice.'

There is no shelter in you anywhere.

The blankets had fallen off and I stared down at her white back, the shoulder blades sticking out as if they wanted to grow into wings, poke through that skin. Little blades. She was helpless.

The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range. Only she can move in multiple directions. Once she's gone, it's a whole different game.

The worst place to be is in the middle. When elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.

I've been in the danger zone

Why are we putting people who are already in a vulnerable position through this dreadful, appalling stress?

The stage floor was a stage of thin ice for me to tread. To hold my own or to sink through and die, never to be remembered.

I hang by a thread, but it is (if I may so speak) of Christ's spinning

When I got my record deal, my mum was still struggling a little bit, so the entertainment industry took advantage of that. My mum needed money, and so she signed a contract.

Emma, I'm sorry, I can't help you. This is a disaster. You're completely vulnerable. It's like going into battle in a nightie.

The greatest danger zone a president can be in is when he is being attacked on the left and the right.

Oftentimes, the way it seems to be is that our artists in particular point themselves out as spokesmen for a certain constituency in a community, and thereby place themselves in that vulnerable position.