Helpless Quotes - Page 6

• Even our recreation was scheduled. There was no time to look for birds or wander into the nearby woods. We were put into teams and sent into violent pursuit of a helpless ball.

  Gloria Whelan

  Team, Bird, Balls

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• Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is out to abuse, cheat, humiliate, betray, envy... . And special in this is the child's feeling that the parents' love, their Christian charity, honesty, generosity ... may be only a pretense.

  Karen Horney

  Christian, Honesty, Children

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• 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.

  Nelson DeMille

  Real, Suspense Novels, Novelists

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

  James A. Baldwin

  Men, Doe, Prejudice

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• If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.

  Archibald Alexander

  Children, Men, Miserable

  Archibald Alexander (1857). “Practical Truths”

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• I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.

  Nellie Bly

  Insane, Desire, Asylums

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.6, Golgotha Press

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• In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.

  Cyril Connolly

  Friendship, Girl, Cousin

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• This perception that the only people that come to Crown are helpless victims and we are just sitting there preying on them, you know, I reject that absolutely and that does upset me. And I think that that is, you know, that is a spin line from the latte set, which is completely wrong.

  James Packer

  Thinking, People, Upset

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• Helpless, tortured, shot, blown up, my best buddies all dead, and all because we were afraid of the liberals back home, afraid to do what was necessary to save our own lives. Afraid of American civilian lawyers. I have only one piece of advice for what it's worth: If you don't want to get into a war where things go wrong, where the wrong people sometimes get killed, where innocent people sometimes have to die, then stay the hell out of it in the first place.

  Marcus Luttrell

  War, Home, People

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

  Toby Stephens

  Musician, Would Be, Bob

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

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• The noncook is in a helpless position, much like that of the car owner who can’t change a tire and has to depend on mechanics to keep his automobile running.

  Raymond Sokolov

  Running, Car, Tire

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• When you feel bad, find a person to talk to and cry with, to tell of your anger and other helpless feelings.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Feelings, Cry, Feels

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• Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless emotion.

  Sherman Alexie

  Thinking, Way, Emotion

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• The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong. It finds its highest freedom when it can secure justice to others.

  Jenkin Lloyd Jones

  Justice, Soul, Cruelty

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• I hated the things they believe in, the things they so innocently and charmingly pretended. I hated the sanctimonious piety that let people hurt helpless creatures. I hated the prayers and the hymns - the fountains and the red images that coloured their drab music, the fountains filled with blood, the sacrifice of the lamb.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Hurt, Prayer, Believe

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• Hannah expected this to make her sob even more, but instead she found her tears drying up and her tummy growing warm. How dare they? How dare they do this to little girls? She understood now why her parents go so angry when they saw the result of bombers in the white hot streets of the Middle East, why men and women wailed in anger as well as grief as they lifted the limp bodies of children from the rubble. How dare they? No, she wasn't going to die like this, wrapped up like some helpless baby.

  Stephen M. Irwin

  Girl, Baby, Fear

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• History teaches us that there have been but few infringements of personal liberty by the state which have not been justified, as they are here, in the name of righteousness and the public good, and few which have not been directed, as they are now, at politically helpless minorities.

  Harlan F. Stone

  Names, Liberty, Minorities

  Minersville School District v. Gobitis, 310 U.S. 586, 1940.

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• Let us not be afraid to be humble, small, helpless to prove our love for God. The cup of water you give the sick, the way you lift a dying man, the way you feed a baby, the way you teach a dull child, the way you give medicine to a sufferer of leprosy, the joy with which you smile at your own at home - all this is God's love in the world today.

  Mother Teresa

  Baby, Children, Home

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• I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement but a helpless statement. It has to be what you can't avoid saying.

  Jasper Johns

  Thinking, Suggestions, Finals

  Jasper Johns, Museum of Modern Art (Oxford, England) (1974). “Jasper Johns: drawings”

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• Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.

  Annie Besant

  Ignorance, Character, Essentials

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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