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
The problem for many people isn't that they lack personal power and discipline. It is that they have already invested it in… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
May the arm of the first member of Congress, who proposes a national religion, drop powerless from his shoulder; his tongue cleave… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
Once the 'portals of the future close - in Amazonia, Siberia or the Arctic - we will find ourselves powerless to affect… — Mark Lynas Copy Share Image
Separation can make us feel helpless and powerless, like we have no control. To withstand this negative force, we must return to… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
One day we will all be ashes on the ground..The wind will just blow us everywhere till it disappears. And some will… — Jazzy Copy Share Image
Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity; sometimes, even… — Thomas Aquinas 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
“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
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
Here I found myself in my early 20s, at the height of my career, up against something I was totally powerless against.… — Irene Cara Copy Share Image
The nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless in light of globalization. — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don't share your ideas, smart people can't do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
I have always felt my role was to do anything I could to enable the powerless to speak. I want America to… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my… — Amy Plum Copy Share Image
We are all powerless as children, and money looms so powerfully... we don't grow up to claim our financial power until we… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You know how the Eclipse of the sun shows it? Christ's strength eclipses your powerlessness in God's likeness, and there is total… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Even if only 2 percent of those assigned to perform military service should announce their refusal to fight, governments would be powerless,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
I think the reporter or journalist is well served by having a responsibility to the powerless, to use a much-abused cliché. The… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
Those who are a danger to the society being resentful and uncooperative are themselves the most powerless ones, they are so because… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
There is a central flaw in contemporary culture and a corresponding and related inability to address it. Society seems somehow unable to… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come… — A. C. Benson Copy Share Image
There are six myths about old age: 1. That it's a disease, a disaster. 2. That we are mindless. 3. That we… — Maggie Kuhn Copy Share Image
In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.' What is it then?' It is the only way… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image