“That day wasn't the first time I had attempted suicide. Simply disappearing into the distant nothingness where there was no pain and… — Natascha Kampusch Copy Share Image
Alas! is even love too weak To unlock the heart, and let it speak? Are even lovers powerless to reveal To one… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The metaphysical apologia at least betrayed the injustice of the established order through the incongruence of concept and reality. The impartiality of… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
It must be remembered that in those great days I was considered to be an "integrationist" - this was never, quite, my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Here in the U.S. we do have a problem with a president Donald Trump who uses language in two distinctly destructive ways.… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Father God, thank You for having no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of… — Beth Moore 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
“For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been… — Socrates 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
Ghosts Take shape under moonlight, materialize in dreams. Shadows. Silhouettes of what is no more. But ghosts don't bother me. The day… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
My friends, ask gladness from God. Be glad as children, as birds in the sky. And let man's sin not disturb you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable - the rhetoric of the powerless. The planet… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
In loneliness, in sickness, in confusion-the mere knowledge of friendship makes it possible to endure, even if the friend is powerless to… — Pam Brown 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
But what, precisely, is hope? At a talk I gave last spring, someone asked me to define it. I turned the question… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The Ragamuffin rabble are the unsung assembly of saved sinners who are little in their own sight, conscious of their brokenness and… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Women's stories are as powerful, inspiring, and terrifying as the goddess herself. And in fact, these are the stories of the goddess.… — Jalaja Bonheim Copy Share Image
The tango is the man and woman in search of each other. It is the search for an embrace, a way to… — Juan Carlos Copes Copy Share Image
As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The pretense in disputed elections is that the great conflict is between the two major parties. The reality is that there is… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
They think I'm powerful. because I do whatever I want. because I tell everyone to screw off. because I dont listen to… — Delaney Ridnour Copy Share Image
There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Redd laughed. "The lovely thing about being here," she said, gesturing at the maze, "is that I'm able to immagine your imagination… — Frank Beddor Copy Share Image
In the first place, you shouldn't believe in promises. The world is full of them: the promises of riches, of eternal salvation,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Today I wore a pair of faded old jeans and a plain grey baggy shirt. I hadn't even taken a shower, and… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
Behold our refutation of the error. It is not based on documents of faith, but on the reasons and statements of the… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
If philosophy is still necessary, it is so only in the way it has been from time immemorial: as critique, as resistance… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm always interested in a claustrophobic situation where people might be powerless to do things. My first three novels were all about… — Lily King Copy Share Image
The days are a death wish A witch hunt for an exit I am powerless...__ The fragile, the broken Sit in circles… — Hospital For SoulsBring Me The Horizon Copy Share Image
The trouble with blaming powerless people is that although it's not nearly as scary as blaming the powerful, it does miss the… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Before what is sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it.… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Our legal system, including the police, is anti-Dalit and anti-poor. The death penalty laws' wrathful majesty, in blood-shot equality, deals the fatal… — V. R. Krishna Iyer Copy Share Image
I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Reading about people who were so truly voiceless and powerless - Liberian child soldiers, Sudanese refugees, and, especially, Kashmiri women whose husbands… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
“To be completely helpless in the face of life―powerless to do a single thing―that's what I'd always feared more than anything. It… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Many, including the Canadian and U.S. governments, try to provide family support while also maintaining a hard line about further fuelling terrorism… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
