Quotes About Powerless

For that was the terrible power of the dementors: to force their victims to relive the worst memories of their lives, and drown, powerless, in theirown despair. . . .

There are two reasons why man should not worry, either one of which must operate in every instance. First, because he cannot prevent the results he fears. Second, because he can prevent them. If he be powerless to avert the blow, he needs perfect mental concentration to meet it bravely, to lighten its force, to get what salvage he can from the wreck, to sustain his strength at this time when he must plan a new future.

We live in a world where to be powerless is a risk The future is not a mystery but a function of what we do today

Ordinary Germans" felt utterly powerless, and resigned to feeling so for the foreseeable future. The government would doubtless translate that resignation as passive support, and to some extent they were right. There was certainly no sense that anyone had a practical alternative to offer.

C]ameras, in the right hands-or at least in more and more hands of average citizens-may help create a culture in which the previously powerless have the welcome recourse of evidence against the culpable.

It is one thing to accept that one is powerless to stop the suffering in the world, but quite another to benefit from what brings misery to others.

My scars are numerous, my flesh is powerless, my enemy is dangerous, but my God is glorious and His grace is totally sufficient.

To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.

When you focus on the eternal, victorious Son of God, you break the devil's heart and render him powerless.

Christianity is fundamentally convalescence.. .God is not only the doctor who prescribes, He is the nurse who lifts up our powerless head and puts the spoon in our mouth...And He is the medicine.

If you incline towards God the passions that enslaves you will be rendered powerless.

We like to think we're in control but we never are.

...when we feel powerless, we stop trying to find a better way.

Blood rushed to the regions of my body that I associated with naughtiness, and I was powerless to stop it.

He speaks to the poor, the powerless, and he mocks the rich and powerful. He isn't the Messiah the Pharisees are looking for.

This was all in the making, a long time ago. You had as much control over these events as a leaf does in the time of its falling.

Toen ik naast het bed ging zitten zei ze dat ik er goed uitzag en ik voelde me toen een soort ludieke ploert. Want ik was gezond en ik kon niets voor haar doen.

Fear has trapped me, rendered me immobile and powerless. I'd forgotten I even had wings, let alone how to use them.

Your doctors are also the victims of their own belief system, in other words. They constantly surround themselves with negative suggestions. When disease is seen as an invader, forced upon the integrity of the self for no reason, then the individual seems powerless and the conscious mind an adjunct. The patient is sometimes compelled to sacrifice one organ after another to his beliefs, and to the doctor's.

Sometimes what we want or don't want doesn't matter in the end. Sometimes magic doesn't listen after all.

Death comes and takes you away and there is nothing you can do.

I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I've always been like that; I don't smile in any pictures.

In a country where Americans sense, quite genuinely, that their freedoms have been taken away by the government - as in the U.S. Patriot Act, as in NSA surveillance - people feel powerless.

Developing economies may not have much control over the headwinds that they face today, but that does not mean that they are powerless. Much can be done not just to sustain moderate growth but also to secure a more prosperous and resilient future.