Quotes About Powerless

Weißt du, mein Vater hat mir immer gesagt, verlieben geschieht automatisch. Gegen dieses plötzliche, alles ausfüllende Gefühl, das einen wie ein Blitz ereilt, ist man machtlos. ›Verlieben ist Zufall‹, sagte er immer. Aber Liebe …« Nele machte eine kurze Pause, in der die letzte Leuchte im Park ansprang und die Natur in ein schwefelgelbes Licht tauchte. »Liebe ist eine Entscheidung.

Why was is that the Light acted through lies, and the Darkness acted though the truth? Why was is that our truth proved powerless, but lies were effective? And why was the Darkness able to manage perfectly well with truth in order to do Evil?

We can't buy into the lie that we are powerless over our feelings.

I suppose we make kids the repository of our highest ideals because children are powerless. In that way we can have ideals and ignore them at the same time.

She felt horribly out of control of the conversation.

I suppose they, those lives soaked in evil, are miserable and so they ever despise happiness. I suppose they feel powerless and therefore must exert power wherever they can, which is so often upon those unable to comprehend what is happening, much less defend themselves.

Adults can change their circumstances; children cannot. Children are powerless, and in difficult situations they are the victims of every sorrow and mischance and rage around them, for children feel all of these things but without any of the ability that adults have to change them.

My internal being was in a state of insurrection and turmoil; I felt that order would thence arise, but I had no power to produce it. By

pero yo no era dueño, sino esclavo, de unas pasiones que me horrorizaban y a la vez no podía resistir.

Men are not open to truth or reason. They cannot be reached by a rational argument. The mind is powerless against them. Yet we have to deal with them. If we want to accomplish anything, we have to deceive them into letting us accomplish it. Or force them. They understand nothing else. We cannot expect their support for any endeavor of the intellect, for any goal of the spirit.

Para el salvaje, el mundo es un lugar de prodigios ininteligibles, donde todo es posible para la materia inanimada y nada es posible para él. Su mundo no es lo desconocido, sino un horror irracional: lo desconocible. Cree que los objetos físicos están dotados de una misteriosa voluntad, movidos por caprichos sin causa, imposibles de predecir, mientras él no es más que un peón impotente, a merced de fuerzas situadas fuera de su control.

Men are not open to truth or reason. They cannot be reached by a rational argument. The mind is powerless against them. Yet we have to deal with them. If we want to accomplish anything, we have to deceive them into letting us accomplish it. Or force them. They

truth is that war is never tidy and always results in unintended consequences, even when launched against seemingly powerless countries on behalf of a righteous cause. When

If there was one thing I understood about God, it was that he was not good, and if he was good, he was too powerless to deserve our attention.

They must have more money if they were to survive, if her mother was to regain her strength and her health. Emma knew that without money you were nothing, just a powerless and oppressed victim of the ruling class, a yoked and shackled beast of burden destined to a life of mindless drudgery, and an existence so wretched and so without hope, so filled with terror and despair that it was hardly worth the contemplation let alone the living.

To be paralyzed is to feel powerless. Feeling powerless, your life becomes overwhelmed with chaos. Chaos leads to fear . . . fear turns you into a victim. A victim is someone who allows the outside world or their inner thoughts to control their consciousness.

O homem-massa é o homem cuja vida carece de projetos e anda à deriva. Por isso não constrói nada, ainda que suas possibilidades, seus poderes, sejam enormes.

He was helpless, and he knew it. But he was too stupid, and too truculent.

It is in a case like this that a doctor knows he is powerless in such circumstances, that he longs for change; a change which would prevent the injustice of a system in which until a month ago this poor old woman had had to earn her living as a waitress, wheezing and panting but facing life with dignity.

For most people do not enjoy being in the presence of someone who is angry, and most would selfishly prefer that the angry person return to their former state of powerless depression, because their depression is usually turned inward, while their anger is often thrust outward toward whoever is nearby.

Endless are the instances of men of bright parts and high spirit having been, by degrees, rendered powerless and despicable by their imaginary wants.

How badly arranged the world is. What is the purpose of ugliness, suffering, sadness? Why our powerless dreams? Why everything?

Bir damla suya kar???p dönen bu çamur tanesinin üzerindeki biz diÄŸerleri, öylesine dermans?z, öylesine silahs?z, öylesine bilgisiz, öylesine küçüÄŸüz ki.

Full moon is falling through the sky. Cranes fly through clouds. Wolves howl. I cannot find rest Because I am powerless To amend a broken world. Sima Zian added, I love the man who wrote that, I told you before, but there is so much burden in Chan Du. Duty, assuming all tasks, can betray arrogance. The idea we can know what must be done, and do it properly. We cannot know the future, my friend. It claims so much to imagine we can. And the world is not broken any more than it always, always is.