Helpless Quotes - Page 12

• We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not against us. Has it terrors, they are our terrors; has it abysses, those abysses belong to us; are dangers at hand, we must try to love them.... Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beautiful, Princess, Dragons

  Rainer Maria Rilke, “Fear Of The Inexplicable”

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Melvin Burgess

  Ends, Found, Difficult

  Melvin Burgess (2010). “Smack”, p.278, Macmillan

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• The wind is not helpless for any man's need, Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed.

  William Morris

  Weed, Rain, Men

  William Morris (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)”, p.3989, Delphi Classics

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• I feel as if something has been torn suddenly out of my life and left a terrible hole. I feel as if I couldn't be I — as if I must have changed into somebody else and couldn't get used to it. It gives me a horrible lonely, dazed, helpless feeling. It's good to see you again — it seems as if you were a sort of anchor for my drifting soul.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Lonely, Anchors, Giving

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more”, p.1047, e-artnow

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• Hormones are very powerful things. We are helpless in their wake.

  Meg Cabot

  Powerful, Hormones, Very Powerful

  Meg Cabot (2015). “A Royal Disaster”, p.133, Pan Macmillan

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• The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God's compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.

  Ramakrishna

  Compassion, Given, Protect

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• I gave a helpless laugh. “Damned if I know. I think…we seem to have reached impasse. I feel betrayed by your friendship with Verlane. I realize that’s not logical. I realize that if I’d made the mistakes Verlane has made, I’d want my friends to stand by me, hope that someone would help me when the time came. I just…” “What?” I met his eyes. “I just need to come first for someone, Guy.

  Josh Lanyon

  Mistake, Eye, Thinking

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• He is mad about being small when you were big, but no, that's not it, he is mad about being helpless when you were powerful, but no, not that either, he is mad about being contingent when you were necessary, not quite it... he is insane because when he loved you, you didn't notice.

  Donald Barthelme

  Powerful, Mad, Insane

  Donald Barthelme (2014). “The Dead Father”, p.143, Macmillan

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• You're going to find Tigerstar. Against that fiend, every cat is helpless.

  Erin Hunter

  Cat, Tigerstar

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• Thank you,” Simon said. “It’s a joke, Isabelle. He’s the Count. He likes counting. You know. ‘What did the Count eat today, children? One chocolate chip cookie, two chocolate chip cookies, three chocolate chip cookies . . .’” There was a rush of cold air as the door of the restaurant opened, letting in another customer. Isabelle shivered and reached for her black silk scarf. “It’s not realistic.” “What would you prefer? ‘What did the Count eat today, children? One helpless villager, two helpless villagers, three helpless villagers . . .

  Cassandra Clare

  Children, Air, Doors

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• I know it was harder for me taking care of my dad during his cancer than it was going through my own. You feel more helpless as a caregiver.

  Mindy Sterling

  Dad, Cancer, Care

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by massive foreign aid from the more prosperous industrial nations of the world. This was in keeping with a more general vision on the Left that people were essentially divided into three categories - the heartless, the helpless, and wonderful people like themselves, who would rescue the helpless by playing Lady Bountiful with the taxpayers' money.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Heart, Broken

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.72, Hoover Press

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• Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

  Criss Jami

  Unconditional Love, Helping Others, Giving

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.104, Criss Jami

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• Humans are born, weak and helpless. We're cursed with natural predators called parents. That's why the grandma was created. To protect us. Oh sure, she's old and frail. But she can kick your dad's ass.

  Christopher Titus

  Dad, Grandma, Parent

  "Titus", www.imdb.com. 2000-2002.

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• Prayer is vastly superior to worry. With worry, we are helpless; with prayer, we are interceding. When I hear sad news, I try to say a prayer for the victims. When I am troubled, I will say a prayer that asks for relief for myself and for all those who suffer as I do. When I am concerned about my relatives or friends I say a short prayer to myself - "May they be happy and free of suffering."

  Mary Pipher

  Peace, Prayer, Worry

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• Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to them, sooner or later, they come back to their senses, but the scars are not dead inasmuch as her spoiler lives.

  Michael Bassey

  Girl, Children, Men

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• The helpless can't help the helpless.

  Tennessee Williams

  Weakness, Helping

  Tennessee Williams (2009). “The Night of the Iguana”, p.52, New Directions Publishing

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• Outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the warm, earthy world. Into a nest of lovers' beds, baby cribs, meal tables, all the solid commerce of life in this earth, and feel apart, enclosed in a wall of glass.

  Sylvia Plath

  Baby, Stars, Wall

  Sylvia Plath (2000). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962”, Anchor

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• Intellectuals resist faith longer because they can: where ordinary people are helpless before the light, intellectuals are clever enough to spin webs of darkness around their minds and hide in them. That's why only Ph.D.s believe any of the 100 most absurd ideas in the world such as Absolute Relativism, or the Objective Truth of Subjectivism, of the Meaningfulness of Meaninglessness and the Meaninglessness of Meaning, which is the best definition of Deconstructionism I know.

  Peter Kreeft

  Clever, Believe, Light

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• We cannot find Him unless we know we need Him. We forget this need when we take a self-sufficient pleasure in our own good works. The poor and helpless are the first to find Him, Who came to seek and to save that which was lost.

  Thomas Merton

  Self, Needs, Firsts

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.248, Shambhala Publications

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• If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs ...[they] are an obligation put on us, a responsibility we have no right to neglect, nor to violate by cruelty.

  James Herriot

  Loyalty, Gratitude, Children

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• Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him.

  Vikram Seth

  Book, Strive, Admirer

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• The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.

  Jimmy Carter

  Life, Religious, Freedom

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