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  • I feel like the only thing that I can do, and I've been fired from enough jobs, that I'm pretty confident in saying this, the only thing that I can do, even a little bit better than most people, is create that sort of that context with humor. And that's my way of not being helpless and not being hopeless.

    Jobs   People   Littles  
    Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.
  • Ironically, the universities have trained hundreds of thousands of graduates for jobs that soon will not exist. They have trained people to maintain a structure that cannot be maintained. The elite...know only how to feed the beast until it dies. Once it is dead, they will be helpless. Don't expect them to save us. They don't know how....and when it all collapses, when our rotten financial system with its trillions in worthless assets implodes and our imperial wars end in humiliation and defeat, the power elite will be exposed as being as helpless, and as self-deluded as the rest of us

    Jobs   War   Self  
  • Suppose the hellfire of the orthodox really existed! We have no assurance that it does not! It seems incredible, but many incredible things are true. We do not know that God is not as cruel as a Spanish inquisitor. Suppose, then, He is! If, after Death, we wicked ones were shovelled into a furnace of fire- we should have to burn. There would be no redress. It would simply be the Divine Order of things. It is outrageous that we should be so helpless and so dependent on any one- even God.

  • The helpless can't help the helpless.

    Tennessee Williams (2009). “The Night of the Iguana”, p.52, New Directions Publishing
  • So I didn't adopt Homer because he was cute and little and sweet, or because he was helpless and needed me. I adopted him because when you think you see something so fundamentally worthwhile in someone else, you don't look for the reasons - like bad timing or a negative bank balance - that might keep it out of your life. You commit to being strong enough to build your life around it, no matter what. In doing so, you begin to become the thing you admire.

    Cute   Sweet   Strong  
  • However much the creationist leaders might hammer away at their scientific and philosophical points, they would be helpless and a laughing-stock if that were all they had. It is religion that recruits their squadrons. Tens of millions of Americans, who neither know nor understand the actual arguments for - of even against - evolution, march in the army of the night, their Bibles held high. And they are a strong and frightening force, impervious to, and immunized against, the feeble lance of mere reason.

  • It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.

    Winning   Men   Coward  
    Plutarch (2012). “Parallel Lives - Complete”, p.354, Simon and Schuster
  • O it is a happy thing to feel ourselves helpless and naught, for then the presence of God is felt to wrap us about so lovingly! Everlasting, infinite, almighty, these are the words that strengthen us with speaking them.

    William Mountford (1858). “Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...”, p.267
  • To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any guilt to alienate affection, must surely awaken tenderness in every human mind; and tenderness once excited will be hourly increased by the natural contagion of felicity, by the repercussion of communicated pleasure, by the consciousness of dignity of benefaction.

    Hands   Mind   Guilt  
    Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.47
  • Helplessness is a place of power if you're helpless before God. Ask God for help in everything you do.

    Helping   Asks   Ifs  
    Twitter post from May 23, 2012
  • Rest in natural great peace, this exhausted mind, beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, like the relentless fury of the pounding waves in the infinite ocean of samsara.

  • Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest.

  • We manufacture anger to give ourselves the illusion of power when we feel weak and helpless.

    Giving   Illusion   Weak  
    Sophie Hannah (2011). “Lasting Damage: Culver Valley Crime”, p.49, Hachette UK
  • When you don't take an aggressive role in shaping your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, you become a helpless passenger floating through the universe like a ghost ship, merely reacting to wherever it takes you.

    Chris Hardwick (2011). “The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)”, p.15, Penguin
  • A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain: So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee, With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me; But if thou live to see like right bereft, This fool-begged patience in thee will be left.

    William Shakespeare, Alfred Harbage (1977). “The complete works”
  • By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."

    Home   Tyrants   Apathy  
  • Though you are weak and frail, though you are poor and helpless, God does not despise you; but would glorify your being with His own, and raise you to fellowship with Himself.

    Doe   Fellowship   Poor  
    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 247), 1895.
  • Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf.

    Mean   Dumb   Cows  
    Mahatma Gandhi, U. R. Rao (1963). “The Way to Communal Harmony”, Ahmedabad, [India] : Navajivan Publishing House
  • As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless children with catastrophic illnesses.

  • I don't want to hold you and feel so helpless I don't want to smell you and lose my senses And smile in slow motion With eyes in love.

    Eye   Smell   Want  
    Song: Foolish Love, Album: Rufus Wainwright
  • The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could get free. There was no other people from whom they could get help. In the same way that we on Planet Earth, if we ruin our own [world], we won't be able to get help.

    Easter   Ocean   Islands  
  • We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.

    C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Beauty,’ Brimstone had scoffed once. ‘Humans are fools for it. As helpless as moths who hurl themselves at fire.

    Fire   Fool   Moths  
  • Any fool can start a war, and once he's done so, even the wisest of men are helpless to stop it - especially if it's a nuclear war.

    War   Men   Done  
  • I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.

  • Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

    Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.104, Criss Jami
  • Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.

    Samuel Johnson, “The Vanity Of Human Wishes”
  • Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which they must do everything, as something lacking an inner guide and in constant need of inner direction. . . . An adult who acts in this way, even though he may be convinced that he is filled with zeal, love, and a spirit of sacrifice on behalf of his child, unconsciously suppresses the development of the child's own personality.

  • It is undeniably easier to ignore the hardships of those who are too weak to demand their rights than to respond sensitively to their needs. To care is to accept responsibility, to dare to act in accordance with the dictum that the ruler is the strength of the helpless.

    "In Quest of Democracy". Essay by Aung San Suu Kyi, 1991.
  • Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up.

    Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Imago”, p.168, Open Road Media
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