Considered Vulnerable

Famous quotes containing the words considered and/or vulnerable:

    “This nightmare occupied some ten pages of manuscript and wound off with a sermon so destructive of all hope to non-Presbyterians that it took the first prize. This composition was considered to be the very finest effort of the evening.... It may be remarked, in passing, that the number of compositions in which the word “beauteous” was over-fondled, and human experience referred to as “life’s page,” was up to the usual average.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “When parents fail to set appropriate limits, children may feel more vulnerable at night: the aggressive urges that have not been “tamed” by day may be terrifying to a small child alone in the dark.”
    —Cathy Rindner Tempelsman (20th century)