In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers… The bigger the circle we draw, the better, because God gets more glory.… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
The age of the book is not over. No way... But maybe the age of some books is over. People say to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigour and decision. - Who hastens… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Nearly always, so as to live at peace with ourselves, we disguise our own impotence and weakness as calculation and policy; it… — Benjamin Constant Copy Share Image
Most people's lives are nothing more than pointlessly frantic activity used as a psychological defense against their own impotence and fear. — Tucker Max 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
“The only alternative to making mistakes is for someone to make all your decisions for you, in which case you will make… — Grace Llewellyn Copy Share Image
A freedom or pleasure that rests on someone else's slavery or misery cannot finally satisfy the self because it is a limitation… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
My characters have nothing. I'm working with impotence, ignorance... that whole zone of being that has always been set aside by artists… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A [Jewish] woman could not divorce her husband, but she could petition for divorce, and the religious courts could force him to… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
If one writes or reads novels from the point of view of psychology, it is very inconsistent and petty to want to… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
To think of abstraction as an end in itself is undoubtedly letting oneself be led into a cul-de-sac and can only lead… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
When I first went into freelancing, I think there was a period of about eight months when nothing happened. Everything that I… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image