William McKinley Quotes

If someone really wants to hurt you, they'll find a way whatever. I don't want to live my life worrying about it.

As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.

I have lived so long among people who do not understand me, been so long accustomed to refrain and disguise myself for fear of being laughed at, that I have grown as difficult to come at as a snail in a shell; and what is worse, I cannot come out of my shell when I wish it.

I feel extremely vulnerable.

People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable. It was a lot easier to fall for a guy who I knew, on some level, wouldn't fall in love with me. There was nothing to risk. The real risk would be to finally be vulnerable to love.

Nobody's just arrogant. I've met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they're vulnerable - that that hauteur or standoffishiness is because they're pedaling furiously underneath.

You can't allow yourself to be vulnerable.

I don't like to show my weaknesses.

If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do?" Make them stay." And if you can't do that, or don't know how to?" Ellie shrugged. "I don't know." Yes, you do. In fact, you've done it. You leave first," Coop said, "so you don't have to watch them walk away.

I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability.

I think anybody with an insecurity, which is everyone, appreciates the fact that it's much easier to be a predator than it is to be prey.

I've always had a problem saying what I feel for fear of having someone dislike me.

I'm terrified of men these days. If someone asked me out now, I don't know what I'd say, how I'd react. But I couldn't go through with it, not at all. I suppose I've been terrified of them all along.

Everyone fears rejection.

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives.

Love makes me vulnerable. In business I'm tough on myself - I'm like a drill sergeant. If I'm down, I'm used to getting right back up, but when it comes to love, your heart can't do that.

You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do.

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.

I don't hide out. If you build a wall around yourself, it draws people to invade it. Fear is the enemy.

I'm insecure about things. I'm not afraid to say it, though. Even when my publicist is like, 'Go on the red carpet,' I don't wanna go.

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

It's hard for me to accept love. I wish I could lie to you and tell you that it's easy for me, but it's not.