Helpless Quotes - Page 17

• I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way.

  Terry Goodkind

  Inspirational, Strong, Unique

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• We are creators, and yet we naively play the role of "the created." We see ourselves as helpless sheep buffeted around by the God who made us. We kneel like frightened children, begging for help, for forgiveness, for good luck. But once we realize that we are truly created in the Creator's image, we will start to understand that we, too, must be Creators. When we understand this fact, the doors will burst wide open for human potential.

  Dan Brown

  Children, Good Luck, Sheep

  "The Lost Symbol".

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• She looked at his young face, so full of concern and tenderness; and she remembered why she had run away from everyone else and sought solitude here. She yearned to kiss him, and she saw the answering longing in his eyes. Every fiber of her body told her to throw herself into his arms, but she knew what she had to do. She wanted to say, I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage; but instead she said: "I think I'm going to marry Alfred.

  Ken Follett

  Running, Love You, Eye

  KEN FOLLETT (1989). “THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH”

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• They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself

  George Orwell

  Loyalty, Men, Tears

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.126, Arcturus Publishing

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• What we need as Christians is to be able to feed ourselves. How many there are who sit helpless and listless, with open mouths, hungry for spiritual things, and the minister has to try to feed them, while the Bible is a feast prepared, into which they never venture.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Spiritual, Trying

  Dwight L Moody (2013). “Experiencing Pleasure and Profit in Bible Study”, p.47, Moody Publishers

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• Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. It enslaves him almost before he has tasted freedom. The 'ologies' will tell you how its done Theology calls it building a conscience or developing a spirit of selflessness. Psychology calls it the growth of the superego. Considering how long society has been at it, you'd expect a better job. But the campaigns have been badly planned and the victory has never been secured.

  B. F. Skinner

  Jobs, Long, Psychology

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• Say, what is life? 'Tis to be born,
  A helpless Babe, to greet the light
  With a sharp wail, as if the morn
  Foretold a cloudy noon and night;
  To weep, to sleep, and weep again,
  With sunny smiles between; and then?

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Life, Sleep, Night

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• Repressed anger becomes a temporary madness. Something happens which is beyond your control. If you could have controlled, you would have controlled it still -- but suddenly it was overflowing. Suddenly it was beyond you. You couldn't do anything, you felt helpless -- and it came out. Such a person may not be angry, but he moves and lives in anger.

  Rajneesh

  Moving, Anger, May

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• I wanted to be wanted and he was very beautiful, kissed with his eyes closed, and only felt good while moving. You could drown in those eyes, I said, so it’s summer, so it’s suicide, so we’re helpless in sleep and struggling at the bottom of the pool.

  Richard Siken

  Beautiful, Summer, Suicide

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• But you're so helpless sometimes. It's like watching a kitten with its head trapped in a Kleenex box.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Sometimes, Kitten, Boxes

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.205, Pan Macmillan

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• When the heart craved something so forcefully, then reason became nothing but helpless observer.

  Cornelia Funke

  Heart, Reason, Observers

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• I felt that if a man's proposals met with approval, it should encourage him; if they met with opposition, it should make him fight back; but the real tragedy for him was to lift up his voice among the living and meet with no response neither approval nor opposition just as if he were left helpless in a boundless desert.

  Lu Xun

  Real, Fighting, Men

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

  Jessica Sorensen

  Hard Times, Doubt, Through Hard Times

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• Okay," I said. "I'd hoped to avoid this, but... Bill, I rescind your invitation into my house." Bill began walking backward to the door, a helpless look on his face, and my brush still in his hand. Eric grinned at him triumphantly. "Eric," I said, and his smile faded. "I rescind your invitation into my house." And backward he went, out my door and off my porch. The door slammed shut behind (or maybe in front of?) them.

  Charlaine Harris

  Doors, Hands, House

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.758, Penguin

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• Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in an unending sequence of rise and fall? Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Carthage, Rome, the Empires of Charlemagne and the Turk: Ground to dust and plowed with salt. Spain, France, Britain, America—burned into the oblivion of the centuries. And again and again and again. Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing? This time, it will swing us clean to oblivion.

  Walter M. Miller, Jr.

  Fall, Play, Phoenix

  Walter M. Miller Jr (2014). “A Canticle For Leibowitz”, p.146, Hachette UK

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• I often wonder what drives people to do things. Whether it's put into their minds at birth, or if it is learned as they grow. Maybe it's even forced upon them by circumstances that are out of their hands. Does anyone have control over their lives or are we all helpless?

  Jessica Sorensen

  Hands, People, Mind

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• Beauty,’ Brimstone had scoffed once. ‘Humans are fools for it. As helpless as moths who hurl themselves at fire.

  Laini Taylor

  Fire, Fool, Moths

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

  Cassandra Clare

  Children, Two, Today

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1294, Simon and Schuster

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• Like a feather in a dust storm, with no direction The Raven flies through life, helpless and omitted Until night declares and the wind expires. Then it flies to the land of stones and etchings And becomes an Ember, breaking away

  Jessica Sorensen

  Night, Dust, Wind

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• I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless.

  Arthur Golden

  Said

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• The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Suffering, Doe, Fool

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He left His Father's throne above, (So free, so infinite His grace!) Emptied Himself of all but love, And bled for Adam's helpless race.

  Charles Wesley

  Jesus, Father, Race

  Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.219, Ravenio Books

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• I have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance.

  Bill Nighy

  Romance, Faces, Romanticism

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• Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.

  Ramakrishna

  Devotion To God, God Love, Stand Alone

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• A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless.

  Moshe Sharett

  Feelings, Rooms, Back And Forth

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