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479 Helpless quotes by 395 unique authors

It is impossible to win a contest with a helpless opponent since if you win you have won nothing. — Unknown Author
Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment. — Annie Besant
I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement… — Jasper Johns
Ironically, the universities have trained hundreds of thousands of graduates for jobs that soon will not exist. They have trained people to maintain a structure… — Chris Hedges
My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease. It rises up in my throat like acid reflux, that fashionable American… — Margaret Drabble
You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, but we're not.… — Louise Hay
You are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your own mind. — Louise Hay
It's one thing to be helpless as one tries to lace a corset or to mount an elephant, quite another to be helpless as a… — John Speed
Socialist ideology, like so many others, has two main dangers. One stems from confused and incomplete readings of foreign texts, and the other from the… — Jose Marti
In everything, depend upon yourself, but work in harmony with all things. Do not depend even upon the Infinite, but learn to work and live… — Christian D. Larson
In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated.… — Frederick Buechner
Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God’s plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins. — Eric Liddell
I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys. — Dick Dale
Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The cure calls for… — Chuck Barris
Once we remember that all that takes place during the first days of life on the emotional level shapes the patterns of all future reactions… — Frederick Leboyer
The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously. It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions that people feel… — Abe Burrows
I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless. — Alfred Schnittke
Suppose the hellfire of the orthodox really existed! We have no assurance that it does not! It seems incredible, but many incredible things are true.… — W.N.P. Barbellion
There were many moments in the Vine like that one--where you might think today was yesterday, and yesterday was tomorrow, and so on. Because we… — Denis Johnson
As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain,… — Clifford Geertz
Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray. Your helplessness is your best. prayer. — Ole Hallesby
Abide with me; fast falls the eventide; The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide; When other helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help of the helpless,… — Henry Francis Lyte
Christian children all must be Mild, obedient, good as He. . . . . For He is our childhood's pattern, Day by day like us… — Cecil Frances Alexander
Let us not be afraid to be humble, small, helpless to prove our love for God. The cup of water you give the sick, the… — Mother Teresa
There is one kind of charity common enough among us... It is that patchwork philanthropy which clothes the ragged, feeds the poor, and heals the… — Jamsetji Tata

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