“In fact, the mothers of all her girl friends impressed on their daughters the necessity of being helpless, clinging, doe-eyed creatures. Really,… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The… — Chuck Barris Copy Share Image
“Everything I do in its essence is about helplessness. That's the story I want to tell all the time. It's the story… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“Specialization is undeniably a powerful social and economic force. And yet it is also debilitating. It breeds helplessness, dependence, and ignorance and,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point… — Daryl Hannah Copy Share Image
Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want… — Katherine Anne Porter 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
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
A lot of the despair we feel watching the news every day flows from our sense of helplessness, and as a fiction… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women--the quality of shifting from child to woman, theseeming… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
“Though possibly it–the answer–is simple: it is just low-life, some coldness in us all, some helplessness that causes us to misunderstand life… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Living in a foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. My understanding was that it… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
It takes courage to grieve, to honor the pain we carry. We can grieve in tears or in meditative silence, in prayer… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I believe that God wants to put His hand upon us so that we may reach ideal definitions of humility, of human… — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something… — Michael Ian Black 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
“Can a therapist make me not want to get pregnant? Can a therapist undo the trouble with my eggs, my hormones, and… — Monica Starkman Copy Share Image
“Thinking of the anguish of his final days and my own helplessness in the face of it, makes everything I have done,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Prayer does two things. It shows the complete sufficiency of God and the complete helplessness of man. It shows that God is… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
All that Ruby said was so horribly true, she was leaving everything she cared for. She had laid up her treasures on… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
The oppression of it, the sense of helplessness, and really being part of a system and a bureaucracy that is arbitrary. I… — Jenji Kohan Copy Share Image
“Years later, when I got to college, I learned about an important theory of psychology called Learned Helplessness, developed by Dr. Martin… — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Copy Share Image
“In my father's last letter he said that the world is run by those willing to take the responsibility for the running… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
People always talk about good time rock and roll, Chuck Berry or whatever, like this liberating force for feeling good. But what… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Do the things you think you cannot do. Do all the good you can, by all the means available, in all the… — Mia Farrow Copy Share Image
These were the companions who justified my principles, who gave me the strength to continue against any foe, real or imagined. These… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
“It was vertigo. A heady, insuperable longing to fall. We might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. Aware of his… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“We've all felt a little incompetent, insufficient, overexposed, helpless, unlovable, terrified, defective, unfit and unsung at times. And deep down, for whatever… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal will take care of themselves. Look after the courts of the poor, who stand… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
The more I think about the human suffering in our world and my desire to offer a healing response, the more I… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“A sensation of helplessness, as if it were utterly impossible to go on living. Painful waves beat relentlessly on my heart, as… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
I myself, for instance, am not especially gifted, and am shy by nature, but my gracious and merciful God and Father inclined… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
All of us, poor & rich alike, have been conditioned by our upbringings. Impoverished men & women may become lulled into a… — John Green Copy Share Image
But I know I would not go out. I had taken this time to fall in love instead — in love with… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Adolescents may be, almost simultaneously, overconfident and riddled with fear. They are afraid of their overpowering feelings, oflosing control, of helplessness, of… — Stella Chess Copy Share Image
“The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work than I can think of… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
