Impotent Quotes

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Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral. — Richard M. Nixon
I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor, A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave-- The world goes round forever; I think that life is not too… — Winthrop Mackworth Praed
The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so… — Wassily Kandinsky
Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity. — Kazimir Malevich
Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long… — Gary North
Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity. — Emily Dickinson
It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.We all save it every day, and we all destroy it… — Vera Nazarian
Some beliefs are rigid, like the body of death, impotent in a changing world. Other beliefs are pliable, like the young sapling, ever growing with… — Sophia Lyon Fahs
Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy. — P.J. O'Rourke
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of… — Ronald Reagan
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them. — Tony Robbins
I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss. — Pat Robertson
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the… — Carl Sandburg
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands. — George Santayana
The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls… — Hunter S. Thompson
There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would never… — Michael Chabon
Without poets, without artists... everything would fall apart into chaos. There would be no more seasons, no more civilizations, no more thought, no more humanity,… — Guillaume Apollinaire
The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own senses almost frozen… — David Clement-Davies
A â€œcollectiveâ€ mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of individual… — Ayn Rand
All right then," said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy." "Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and… — Aldous Huxley

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