Helpless Quotes

people who refuse to take risks live with a feeling of dread that is far more severe than what they would feel if they took the risks necessary to make them less helpless - only they don't know it!

The helpless can't help the helpless.

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

If the Poe Lock were ever rendered unusable due to a terrorist attack or natural disaster, it would halt commerce on the Great Lakes and these industries would be helpless.

What would you prefer? 'What did the Count eat today, children? One helpless villager, two helpless villagers, three helpless villagers….

Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.

Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.

Compassion is not helpless pity, but an awareness and determination that demands action.

Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations — not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children.

A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him.

I never have to grope for methods. The method is revealed at the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain I would be helpless.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

I'll always be with you, inside and out," she reads. "Through hard times and helpless ones, through love, through doubt.

Almighty Power, by whose most wise command, helpless, forlorn, uncertain, here I stand, take this faint glimmer of thyself away, or break into my soul with perfect day!

Helplessness is a place of power if you're helpless before God. Ask God for help in everything you do.

Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.

Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf.

I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.

He'd come back, all open and helpless, and I suppose that's what won her around in the end. But it was so sad, because it was being himself that he found so difficult to cope with.

You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger.

Don't be impatient with me. Bear in mind that I hop around among all of you big beasts like a harmless and helpless frog who is afraid of being squashed.

We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to read in tomorrow's newspaper.

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.

We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own.

Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.

The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage.

If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.

Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone.

Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band

Victims always feel alone and helpless.

The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.

Though you are weak and frail, though you are poor and helpless, God does not despise you; but would glorify your being with His own, and raise you to fellowship with Himself.

In the Age of Kali the meek and helpless will be preyed upon without mercy, and there will be a surplus of AK-47s.

...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.

Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help.

You could reason with someone who was halfway educated and appeal to his intelligence, but I felt helpless in the face of utter stupidity.

It'll leave you feeling hollow and helpless, and there is where you'll stay. Ain't it funny child, love sometimes leaves you as dead as yesterday.

My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, What can I do?

The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless.

What would you do without me? Say 'nothing.'" "Nothing," said the Prince. "Good. Then you're helpless and I'll help you.

It's hard to stay calm when you're terrified, helpless, alone, at the mercy of men with no mercy at all.

Testosterone is the world’s most dangerous drug. Get one molecule on you and you’re helpless.

He brought toys to the children because they were little and helpless, and because he loved them.

Necessity can set me helpless on my back, but she cannot keep me there; nor can four walls limit my vision.

... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.

I know it's not good to be weak and helpless. But I don't think it's good to be too strong either. In our society, they talk about survival of the fittest. But we're not animals. We're human.

Do we dare to be ourselves?' This is the question that counts - and not, 'Must a man be helpless?' ...A man can do something for peace without having to jump into politics.