I think a woman is powerless if she cannot freely claim the right to her reproductive capacity. Society can talk about anything… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. Love alone is capable of revealing the truth of Love and being a Lover.… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop… — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share Image
fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Sometimes people say terrible things when they're scared. They don't mean to, but they can't help it. They lash out because if… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
“He told me that if I hung up, he'd do it. He would commit suicide. He told me that if I called… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“When you are powerless, something can happen to you and afterwards it has not happened. For you, it happened, but somehow they… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render… — Josiah Warren Copy Share Image
Will only looked at her. There had been light in his eyes on the stairs, as he'd locked the door, when he'd… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Well he’ll not get her, will he?” Angus exclaimed. “He’s just some little pond sprite. He can’t do anything out of the… — Elliot Mabeuse 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
we must be as satisfied to be powerless, idle and still before God, and dried up and barren when He permits it,… — Jane Frances de Chantal Copy Share Image
I had a fantasy as a child that I might be a writer someday. I always thought that meant you went to… — Sara Paretsky 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
I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
it is immoral for powerless people to accept this powerlessness. They may not succeed in getting power but they can fight for… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
For that was the terrible power of the dementors: to force their victims to relive the worst memories of their lives, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We've lost control of this planet somewhere. There's an echo in that kind of tornado situation, where you're powerless facing those phenomena. — Francis Alys Copy Share Image
The national Democratic Party has embraced abortion on demand. I believe this position is wrong in principle and out of the mainstream… — Robert Casey Copy Share Image
Every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
I did a lot of research on real serial killers, and they're not Hannibal Lecters. They're cruel men who are given the… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
A hypocritical etiquette forces us to pretend that the Jews are powerless victims; and if you don't respect their victimhood, they'll destroy… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief… — Mark Galli Copy Share Image
If you allow a political catchword to go on and grow, you will awaken some day to find it standing over you,… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
All the themes of incipient fascism are present, to some degree, in our present-day political culture: the fear of the Other, the… — Justin Raimondo Copy Share Image
People may resist our advice, spurn our appeals, reject our suggestions, refuse our help, but they are powerless against our prayers. — Jill Briscoe Copy Share Image
Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
“When we feel unworthy, we feel powerless. When we feel powerless, we shrink. When we shrink, we attract a match to that… — Anella Wetter Copy Share Image
If you really want to show power in its larger aspects, you need to show the effects on the powerless, for good… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Christianity is fundamentally convalescence.. .God is not only the doctor who prescribes, He is the nurse who lifts up our powerless head… — John Piper Copy Share Image
You can tell people of the need to struggle, but when the powerless start to see that they really can make a… — Leymah Gbowee Copy Share Image
If I were thin, I'd never say 'I am powerless over fudge.' a) I can't believe I actually ever said that. b)… — Camryn Manheim Copy Share Image
These powerless people at the bottom are the ones with whom we must begin. They must have the insight and the knowledge… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
People have always asked me why I'm drawn to material about kids, and for me, it's - I remember being at that… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
I suspect most politicians feel overwhelmed because people's lives are a real struggle, full of unhappiness, and you would probably feel powerless… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
People are fascinated with eternal life and physical power - the idea of having no vulnerability. We all feel small and powerless… — Alexandra Cassavetes Copy Share Image
