Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
As a teenager, you have so much energy and hormones and you feel powerless in your life. — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
It is an anomaly that we can split the atom, but we are nearly powerless to persuade each other to embrace justice. — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Only the powerless live in a money culture and know nothing about money. — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
When something tragic happens in the world and I realize that, for the most part, I am powerless to stop it. — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
The truth is always more powerful and stronger than love, because the love becomes powerless in the absence of the truth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
There is something to be said about laying bare the vocabulary of the aristocratic measure, right? There's something to be said about… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Ministers are powerless people who have nothing to boast of except their weaknesses. But when the Lord whom they serve fills them… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Fischer was a master of clarity and a king of artful positioning. His opponents would see where he was going but were… — Bruce Pandolfini Copy Share Image
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
My scars are numerous, my flesh is powerless, my enemy is dangerous, but my God is glorious and His grace is totally… — Matt Papa Copy Share Image
Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I think that being vulnerable is about feeling helpless, or powerless... it's about allowing myself to be in a place where I… — Sadie Calvano Copy Share Image
The only thing workers have to bargain with is their skill or their labor. Denied the right to withhold it as a… — Paul Clark Copy Share Image
We are many, many people and yet we are one. What we do today with our thinking, what we do tomorrow with… — Little Crow Copy Share Image
It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Lord, if I thought you were listening, I'd pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
One citizen, or a few, may be powerless if all the rest are determined to benefit from the imposition of unjust supranational… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
He was powerless because he had no precise desire, and this tortured him because he was vainly seeking something to desire. He… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
To simplify things down to their real essence, whenever things go wrong in our lives, whenever our plans go awry and the… — Tony Clark Copy Share Image
There have been a number of philosophers who have reveled in the dismantling of truth. I think they did so with good… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
