“Powerlessness is an excruciating pain; it is torture insurmountable.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Embrace happiness and you will never feel helplessness, haplessness and hopelessness. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up. — Jefferson Smith Copy Share Image
Helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The utter helplessness of a conquered people is perhaps the most tragic feature of a civil war or any other sort of… — Rebecca Latimer Felton Copy Share Image
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war. — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Helplessness united with faith produces prayer, for without faith there can be no prayer. — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
Without faith there can be no prayer, no matter how great our helplessness may be. Helplessness united with faith produces prayer. — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
I've been dropped out of many movies at the last minute so that hurts because you feel sheer helplessness because you know… — Divya Dutta Copy Share Image
A humble and contrite heart knows that it can merit nothing before God, and that all that is necessary is to be… — Ole Hallesby Copy Share Image
Two things are terrible in childhood: helplessness (being in other people's power) and apprehension - the apprehension that something is being concealed… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Human infants," writes psychologist Martin Seligman, "begin life more helpless than infants of any other species. In the course of the next… — Les Parrott III Copy Share Image
Charlie Chaplin said something to the effect that humor is an act of defiance, that we must laugh in the face of… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
A person moving in zero gravity feels a pitiful helplessness. One wrong move and you find yourself spinning wildly. Everyone becomes a… — Ulrich Walter Copy Share Image
“Until we embrace our mutual brokenness, our work with low-income people is likely to do more harm than good. I sometimes unintentionally… — Steve Corbett Copy Share Image
“Most of those who think their strength is gone and ask for help from others do not know that the strength that… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it,… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Today's parents have little authority over those others with whom they share the task of raising their children. On the contrary,most parents… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
If my tone is mocking, the tone of someone accustomed to helplessness, this is natural: the poet is a condemned man for… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
[T]he democratic principle of "one man, one vote," viewed against a background of voting masses numbering several millions, only serves to demonstrate… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
We belong to that order of mammals, the primates, distinguished by its propensity for repeated single litters, intense parental care, long life-spans,… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Psychological trauma is an affliction of the powerless. At the moment of trauma, the victim is rendered helpless by overwhelming force. When… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
Whenever I start thinking of my love for a person, I am in the habit of immediately drawing radii from my love… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Most parents try really hard to give their kids the best possible life. They give them the best food and clothes they… — Thisuri Wanniarachchi Copy Share Image
“The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life of one we dearly love, is trembling in the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought. — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image