Quotes About Powerless

There are times when the world slips out of control. It's like an accident that is happening too quickly , and you can't stop it, you can't think about it, you have no choice but to lean back and watch as everything changes forever.

Those who study the complex interplay of cause and effect in the history of the Universe say that this sort of thing is going on all the time, but that we are powerless to prevent it. 'It's just life,' they say.

Yeah well …" Zaphod felt strangely powerless to take charge of this conversation, and Ford's heavy breathing at his side told him that the seconds were ticking away fast. The noise and the shaking had reached terrifying proportions. He saw Trillian's and Arthur's faces white and unblinking in the gloom

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

Words are powerless when confronted by catastrophe; they're pitiable, wretched, and easily distorted

A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.

the dead leaves blowing about his legs like brittle, papery demons sucked dry of all power, impuissant and doomed to crumble.

The world is going to be remade, not reconditioned. All its would-be renovators are powerless to stop this. If these experts do not understand me, so much the better; I certainly have no desire to understand them.

Today California buried Supreme Court Justice, Fritz Rayburn. Governor Joe Davidson delivered the eulogy calling the judge a friend, a confidant, and his brother in service to the great state of California. The governor cited Fritz Rayburn as a man of extraordinary integrity who relentlessly pursued justice, continually uplifted those in need and, above all, protected those who were powerless.

One of the great things about playing a fallible superhero, one who doesn't necessarily have superpowers, is that the stakes are raised by the prospect of them perishing.

Destiny. It was just a grand term for something you could do nothing about.

He felt about as useless as a one-legged man in a butt-kicking contest

As if they could understand what she had been through. As if they knew what it was like to be strong and invincible one day and completely powerless the next.

But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last.

Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]

But the works of man are impotent against the assaults of nature . . .

Only the powerless live in a money culture and know nothing about money.

I suffer mornings most of all I feel so powerless and small By ten o'clock I'm back in bed Fighting the jury in my head

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.

Nature is powerless to put asunder.

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

You can tell people of the need to struggle, but when the powerless start to see that they really can make a difference, nothing can quench the fire.

There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.

Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don't share your ideas, smart people can't do anything about them, and you'll remain anonymous and powerless.