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Quotes About Helpless

He blushed, abashed. "I'm sorry." "I'm going to impose a fine on apologies," she said. "I didn't like to mention it last night, but today is your new beginning. Ten silver every time you say you're sorry." Lazlo laughed, and had to bite his tongue before apologizing for apologizing. "It was trained into me," he said. "I'm helpless.
~ Laini Taylor
Selalu ada yang membuat terlena dan tak berdaya pada hujan, pada rintik dan aromanya, pada bunyi dan melankolinya, pada caranya yang pelan sekaligus brutal dalam memetik kenangan yang tak diinginkan
~ Laksmi Pamuntjak
Aneh, memang: selalu ada yang membuat terlena dan tak berdaya pada hujan, pada rintik dan aromanya, pada bunyi dan melankolinya, pada caranya yang pelan sekaligus brutal dalam memetik kenangan yang tak diinginkan.
~ Laksmi Pamuntjak
Gambling is the origin of more extensive misery than all other crimes put together; and the mischief falls principally on the unoffending and helpless; it leads, by insensible degrees, a greater number of wretches to the gallows than the higher atrocities from which that terminus is seen more plainly.
~ landor walter savage iii
What would you prefer? 'What did the Count eat today, children? One helpless villager, two helpless villagers, three helpless villagers….
~ Cassandra Clare
death is the most helpless and irrevocable of states.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
She'd thought she left feeling helpless behind long ago - only we never leave helpless behind. It is a country in which we all hold passports.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.
~ Gertrude Jekyll
It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
~ James Baldwin
she looked again cold, brilliant, and bitterly helpless, a terrifying woman.
~ James Baldwin
If the Democrats want to insult women by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it.
~ Mike Huckabee
When tragedy strikes, feeling helpless is understandable.
~ Ted Lieu
Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
~ Lionel Trilling
No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect.
~ Maria Shriver
Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.
~ Elizabeth Gaskell
If you allow coldness to engulf you before winter, season is helpless to help you.
~ Munia Khan
Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United States stands by, helpless to do anything about it. That's the reality, not George Bush's revisionist history!
~ Mark Shields
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
A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him.
~ Frederick Douglass
But the castration of perception by a court of control that denies it any anticipatory desire, forces it thereby into a pattern of helplessly reiterating what is already known.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
In truth, the best works of art are by no means the most perfect ones, but rather those whose imperfection bears the most profound witness to their fundamental contradictions. That is why those works, whose success takes its measure from the failure of the world, assume something helpless, frail and disorganized under the gaze of contemporary cultural administration.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
I am but a weak and helpless child, yet it is my very weakness which makes me dare to offer myself, O Jesus, as victim to Thy Love.
~ Therese Lisieux
It was strange how in no time at all everybody went from fear to being excruciatingly bored, and the very women who yesterday had been helpless victims and just minutes earlier were howling in fright, now began to advance on him threatening with their fists and saying: 'Git on out of here, you old skunk!' Which shows something about the way a female is put together; she will suffer any outrage so long as it is interesting, but bore her and she don't know fear.
~ Thomas Berger