Helpless Quotes - Page 10

• Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  War, Men, Done

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• As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses.

  Marlo Thomas

  Success, Children, Father

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• Im more attracted to a stronger man rather than a feminine man. Someone who would just throw me down and take control. I love feeling helpless. I definitely like a man who is aggressive and confident.

  Carmen Electra

  Men, Feelings, Stronger

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• When you get in the water with a wild animal, you're essentially giving yourself to that animal because, as humans, we're quite helpless and vulnerable in the water. You're at the seal's mercy. You're at the predator's mercy.

  Paul Nicklen

  Animal, Giving, Water

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• We, the workers and inhabitants of St Petersburg, of various estates, our wives, our children, and our aged, helpless parents, come to THEE, O SIRE to seek justice and protection. We are impoverished; we are oppressed, overburdened with excessive toil, contemptuously treated . . . We are suffocating in despotism and lawlessness. O SIRE we have no strength left, and our endurance is at an end. We have reached that frightful moment when death is better than the prolongation of our unbearable sufferings. . .

  Orlando Figes

  Children, Justice, Wife

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• We manufacture anger to give ourselves the illusion of power when we feel weak and helpless.

  Sophie Hannah

  Giving, Illusion, Weak

  Sophie Hannah (2011). “Lasting Damage: Culver Valley Crime”, p.49, Hachette UK

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

  Joe Abercrombie

  Men, Stay Calm, Mercy

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• To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

  George Bernard Shaw

  God, Lying, Teaching

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• I have no use for those- regardless of their political party- who hold some foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when unorganized labor was a huddled, almost helpless mass.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Dream, Party, Political

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• Speaking of myself, I was made to realize long ago that the old trade union was utterly incompetent to deal successfully with the exploiting corporations in this struggle. I was made to see that in craft unionism the capitalist class have it within their power to keep the workers divided, to use one part of them to conquer and crush another part of them. Indeed, I was made to see that the old form of unionism separates the workers and keeps them helpless at the mercy of their masters.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Crush, Struggle, Long Ago

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• Why, lies are like a sticky juice overspreading the world, a living, growing flypaper to catch and gum the wings of every human soul. . . And the little helpless buzzings of honest, liberal, kindly people, aren't they like the thin little noise flies make when they're caught?

  John Dos Passos

  Lying, Wings, People

  John Dos Passos (1922). “One Man's Initiation--1917”

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• As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.

  Adrienne Rich

  Mother, Heart, Son

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• Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United States stands by, helpless to do anything about it. That's the reality, not George Bush's revisionist history!

  Mark Shields

  Reality, Government, Iraq

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• It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Country, Reality, Faces

  "Why Not Have Our Own World?". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.

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• We are brought into this world cold, weak, and helpless. Then it gets worse.

  Christopher Titus

  Philosophy, Philosophical, World

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• Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Death, Bereavement, Trying

  Jane Welsh Carlyle (1883). “Letters and Memorials...”

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• If he checks your phone bills or shopping receipts, something isn't right. Controlling your partner in any way is unhealthy. I've been with my girlfriend for five years and it's important to me that she feels relaxed and free. I hate to see someone made to feel unsafe and helpless - particularly women as men are physically stronger.

  Ashley Banjo

  Girlfriend, Hate, Men

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• Unfortunately, you're helpless when people interpret your work wrongly. There are simply people who can't or won't understand or accept what you're trying to do. When you take the risk of expressing yourself in public, you have to open yourself to that possibility.

  Michael Haneke

  People, Risk, Trying

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 30, 2009.

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• In my experience, fear comes from not knowing what to expect and not feeling you have any control over what’s about to happen. When you feel helpless, you’re far more afraid than you would be if you knew the facts.

  Chris Hadfield

  Knowing, Feelings, Would Be

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.37, Pan Macmillan

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• The important thing is to tell yourself a life story in which you, the hero, are primarily a problem solver rather than a helpless victim. This is well within your power, whatever fate might have dealt you.

  Martha Beck

  Hero, Fate, Important

  Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.96, Harmony

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• We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness.

  C. S. Lewis

  Loneliness, Conscious, Born

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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

  David Crosby

  Music, Band, Asking

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• Mere human beings cant afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

  Storm Jameson

  Loyalty, Law, Space

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• 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 , we cannot but wonder why such a torture has been inflicted on the child. How could a being who has been aggressed in this way, while totally helpless, develop into a relaxed, loving, trusting person? Indeed, he will always never be able to trust anyone in life. He will always be on the defensive, unable to open up to others and to life.

  Frederick Leboyer

  Children, Emotional, Levels

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• Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as the church, shorn of her strength by her own sin, is an object of ridicule to the world, who cry in derision, "Where is your boasted triumph and your Millennial glory?

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Laughter, Echoes, Church

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 147, 1895.

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