Powerless Quotes

336 quotes by 294 authors

I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's… — Chinua Achebe
Excessive fear is always powerless. — Aeschylus
I suspect most politicians feel overwhelmed because people's lives are a real struggle, full of unhappiness, and you would probably feel powerless to do anything… — Jo Brand
If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping. — Helena Bonham Carter
Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over. — Eric Clapton
To lose one's health renders science null, are inglorious, strength unavailing, wealth useless, and eloquence powerless. — Herophilos
When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the… — Thomas Jefferson
It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror!… — Gerard De Nerval
The law should be a shield for the weak and powerless, not a club for the — Roy Barnes
When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot become manifest, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless, and reason is powerless. — Herophilos
Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it takes to change… — John Legend
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money is not going to organize the disadvantaged, the powerless, or the poor. We need other weapons. That's why the War on Poverty is such… — Cesar Chavez
What you see is from outside yourself, and may come, or not, but is beyond your control. But your fear is yours, and yours alone,… — Marion Zimmer Bradley
Without joy in your life you are powerless. — Joyce Meyer
Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom might destroy everything, an atom might save everything! — Gerard De Nerval
Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by… — Franz Kafka
If it is a terrifying thought that life is at the mercy of the multiplication of these minute bodies [microbes], it is a consoling hope… — Louis Pasteur
To be worthy of the name, an experimenter must be at once theorist and practitioner. While he must completely master the art of establishing experimental… — Claude Bernard
It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without. — A. C. Benson

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