exposure Quotes

“From its earliest days, NASA had followed a policy of maximum, though prudent, disclosure. We had to do everything openly—and soon under intensive, live TV coverage.”

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”

“Most times, it’s just a lot easier not to let the world know what’s wrong.”

“Who can save a child from a burning house without taking the risk of being hurt by the flames?”

“There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.”

“Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outside his or her own sphere.”

“I read somewhere that when someone is in emotional shock, the area around the heart loses some of its protective fat and is therefore dangerously exposed.”

“He saw how hard Jude tried…he saw how determined he was, he saw how brave he was being. And this reminded him that he, too, had to keep trying. Both of them were uncertain; both of them were trying as much as they could; both of them would doubt themselves, would progress and recede. But they would both keep trying, because they trusted the other, and because the other person was the only other person who would ever be worth such hardships, such difficulties, such insecurities and exposure.”

“Exposure to the heat was killing me; August 12, 101: why? Dallas 98. Miami 96. You don’t have to be Einstein to see the unfairness of it.”

“To allow yourself to play with another person is no small risk. It means allowing yourself to be open, to be exposed, to be hurt.”

“Those baby lips, the pure young heart, a year may work sad change in their words and thoughts!”

“He’s a clever devil. If you hadn’t turned up just when you did, he would never have been found out.”

“Hadst thou sought the whole earth over,” said he, looking darkly at the clergyman, “there was no one place so secret,—no high place nor lowly place, where thou couldst have escaped me,—save on this very scaffold!”