Quotes about Helpless

No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish. Votes: 4

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. Votes: 4

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. Votes: 4

I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us. Votes: 4

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. Votes: 4

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless. Votes: 4

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education. Votes: 4

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. Votes: 4

Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up. Votes: 3

Helplessness is a place of power if you're helpless before God. Ask God for help in everything you do. Votes: 3

Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band Votes: 3

Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The cure calls for a monumental effort to stand up and start walking somewhere, anywhere. But that takes some doing. Votes: 3

Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is never far away. Valiant because you know you would slay a dragon with a pocket knife if you had to. Votes: 3

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, how complicate, how wonderful is man! Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from nothing to the Deity! Dim miniature of greatness absolute! An heir of glory! A frail child of dust! Helpless immortal! Insect infinite! A worm! A God! Votes: 3

Victims always feel alone and helpless. Votes: 2

If you're feeling helpless, help someone. Votes: 2

The bold are helpless without cleverness. Votes: 2

If you are feeling helpless, help someone. Votes: 2

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. Votes: 2

The most helpless person is the one who is helpless in reforming himself. Votes: 2

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire! Votes: 2

Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate. Votes: 2

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone. Votes: 2

I want to help the helpless, but I don't want to help the clueless. Votes: 2

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members Votes: 2

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge. Votes: 2

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me. Votes: 2

Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers. Votes: 2

Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze? Votes: 2

Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless emotion. Votes: 2

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him. Votes: 2

I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs. Votes: 2

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer. Votes: 2

We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day. Votes: 2

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. Votes: 2

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. Votes: 2

Female genital mutilation targets little girls, baby girls - fragile angels who are helpless, who cannot fight back. It's a crime against a child, a crime against humanity. It's abuse. It's absolutely criminal and we have to stop it. Votes: 2

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age. Votes: 2

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. Votes: 2

Today I will not wait for someone to come to my aid. I'm not helpless. Although help may come, I'm my own rescuer. My relationships will dramatically improve when I stop rescuing others and stop expecting others to rescue me. Votes: 2

Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a 'map' for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project. Votes: 2

Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful. Votes: 2

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful. There is nothing I can think of that is quite as isolating as this. Votes: 2

All I can say is that you only realize how big your mountain is once you're laying motionless, helpless, and hopeless in the valley below. No one goes there on purpose, if you get what I'm saying, because the only way to find your personal low is to slip and roll down that mountain of yours, straight through to the bottom, no holds barred. Votes: 2

The situation is that of him who is helpless, cannot act, in the event cannot paint, since he is obliged to paint. The act is of him who, helpless, unable to act, acts, in the event paints, since he is obliged to paint. Votes: 1

A woman in love is helpless. Votes: 0

When you feel helpless, help someone. Votes: 0

The helpless can't help the helpless. Votes: 0

Orangutan babies are like human babies: helpless. Votes: 0

If you feel helpless, go help someone. Votes: 0

I feel like dying when I'm helpless Votes: 0

Only he who is helpless can truly pray. Votes: 0

The truth is helpless when up against perception Votes: 0

When your will power is gone, you are helpless. Votes: 0

I feel more helpless with you than without you. Votes: 0

I've never been helpless, I just have powerful enemies Votes: 0

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves. Votes: 0

I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless. Votes: 0

All people are born creative. And there's nobody who's helpless, nobody. Votes: 0

Hormones are very powerful things. We are helpless in their wake. Votes: 0

Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. Votes: 0

The serpent is helpless unless he finds an apple to work with. Votes: 0

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless. Votes: 0

Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony. Votes: 0

You're going to find Tigerstar. Against that fiend, every cat is helpless. Votes: 0

Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help. Votes: 0

Compassion is not helpless pity, but an awareness and determination that demands action. Votes: 0

Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf. Votes: 0

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness... Votes: 0

When the heart craved something so forcefully, then reason became nothing but helpless observer. Votes: 0

Typographic man can express but is helpless to read the configurations of print technology. Votes: 0

India will not be a helpless partner in her own exploitation and foreign domination. Votes: 0

It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless. Votes: 0

Once she'd been a victim- helpless, used, and broken. Now, she was a warrior. Votes: 0

We are brought into this world cold, weak, and helpless. Then it gets worse. Votes: 0

Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest. Votes: 0

A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant! Votes: 0

You're on your own now. You are not helpless. You will find your way. Votes: 0

Testosterone is the world's most dangerous drug. Get one molecule on you and you're helpless. Votes: 0

There is help for the helpless, hope for the hopeless, and forgiveness for the inexcusable. Votes: 0

True prayer is an awareness of our helpless need and an acknowledgment of divine adequacy. Votes: 0

I am helpless fellowman of God, constantly in the fear of my accountability before God. Votes: 0

If you allow coldness to engulf you before winter, season is helpless to help you. Votes: 0

Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty. Votes: 0

It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality. Votes: 0

If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless. Votes: 0

You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination. Votes: 0

The only thing I can see in Jasper Dale's face is helpless and utter confusion. Votes: 0

You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too. Votes: 0

I hate being helpless, and I hate having to ask people to do things for me. Votes: 0

I have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance. Votes: 0

We manufacture anger to give ourselves the illusion of power when we feel weak and helpless. Votes: 0

we are the creator of differences in history,a little in geography but helpless to universe Votes: 0

It is our duty to love the unloved, help the helpless, and bring hope to the hopeless Votes: 0

He brought toys to the children because they were little and helpless, and because he loved them. Votes: 0

I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless. Votes: 0

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. Votes: 0

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing. Votes: 0

Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone. Votes: 0

How dare politicians continue to pass insane laws forcing good, law-abiding people to be defenseless and helpless. Votes: 0

I feel helpless, hopeless, too low to call out, too weak to think. Impotent tears dribble down. Votes: 0

The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic. Votes: 0

She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'... Votes: 0

Like a moth to a flame we become helpless to the beautiful ghosts that true love sheds. Votes: 0

A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless. Votes: 0

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. Votes: 0

The wind is not helpless for any man's need, Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed. Votes: 0

To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption. Votes: 0

But you're so helpless sometimes. It's like watching a kitten with its head trapped in a Kleenex box. Votes: 0

You are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your own mind. Votes: 0

You must come to see how wonderful you are in God and how helpless you are in yourself. Votes: 0

Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God's plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins. Votes: 0

I've always thought that the best solution for those who feel helpless is for them to help others. Votes: 0

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings. Votes: 0

I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys. Votes: 0

It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity. Votes: 0

[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him. Votes: 0

Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray. Your helplessness is your best. prayer. Votes: 0

Christianity would be helpless without the idea of freewill and the idea of freewill would be helpless without incongruity. Votes: 0

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit. Votes: 0

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit. Votes: 0

You are not hopeless. You are not helpless. Because there is a God who is alive and loves you! Votes: 0

I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground. Votes: 0

I think we have to help the helpless. The clueless? I don't give a rat's ass about the clueless. Votes: 0

You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless. Votes: 0

Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support. Votes: 0

It is impossible to win a contest with a helpless opponent since if you win you have won nothing. Votes: 0

How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time. Votes: 0

Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe. Votes: 0

She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in. Votes: 0

... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones. Votes: 0

I'll always be with you, inside and out," she reads. "Through hard times and helpless ones, through love, through doubt. Votes: 0

The snow again. White, white net of beauty, net of dream, trapping the earth, trapping the helpless heart of life ... Votes: 0

If there's a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who's trapped underground, I don't know it. Votes: 0

If your options are closing-in around you and you feel panicked, scared and helpless, this is the time for action. Votes: 0

I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it. Votes: 0

My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, What can I do? Votes: 0

It's hard to stay calm when you're terrified, helpless, alone, at the mercy of men with no mercy at all. Votes: 0

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon. Votes: 0

My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies. Votes: 0

You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary. Votes: 0

What would you do without me? Say 'nothing.'" "Nothing," said the Prince. "Good. Then you're helpless and I'll help you. Votes: 0

Necessity can set me helpless on my back, but she cannot keep me there; nor can four walls limit my vision. Votes: 0

What would you prefer? 'What did the Count eat today, children? One helpless villager, two helpless villagers, three helpless villagers…. Votes: 0

I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless. Votes: 0

The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience. Votes: 0

The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God's compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless. Votes: 0

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned. Votes: 0

I'm tired of being Scarlett O'Hara. In my next life I'm going to come back as Melanie Wilkes, fragile and helpless. Votes: 0

I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed. Votes: 0

Republicans are obsessed with abortion...if they really wanted to protect the weakest, most helpless people, wouldn't they protect the Democrats? Votes: 0

But the moment our eyes meet, I'm right back under his spell, a helpless hunk of steel to his irresistible magnet. Votes: 0

The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God. Votes: 0

My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, 'What can I do?' Votes: 0

The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history. Votes: 0

A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good. Votes: 0

If the town were a black hole, I was the helpless star being sucked into oblivion. It was an oblivion I craved. Votes: 0

I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way. Votes: 0

When you feel bad, find a person to talk to and cry with, to tell of your anger and other helpless feelings. Votes: 0

It's remarkable how many couples can precisely describe their particular pattern of painful fighting, and claim to be helpless to change it. Votes: 0

Beauty,’ Brimstone had scoffed once. ‘Humans are fools for it. As helpless as moths who hurl themselves at fire. Votes: 0

My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery. Votes: 0

...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph. Votes: 0

I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in life. Votes: 0

If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck. Votes: 0

Every child is so helpless - just to survive he has to be political, he has to accept whatsoever the parents are saying. Votes: 0

The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless. Votes: 0

When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages. Votes: 0

I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness. Votes: 0

A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories! Votes: 0

It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us. Votes: 0

My assignment is to take my situation and to use it to help others who feel hopeless and/or helpless because of loss. Votes: 0

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters. Votes: 0

By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home." Votes: 0

In the Age of Kali the meek and helpless will be preyed upon without mercy, and there will be a surplus of AK-47s. Votes: 0

All the religions of the world describe God pre-eminently as the Friend of the friendless, Help of the helpless, and Protector of the weak. Votes: 0

You could reason with someone who was halfway educated and appeal to his intelligence, but I felt helpless in the face of utter stupidity. Votes: 0

The church still meets people at the transition points. Marriages break down. Children commit suicide and leave helpless parents. Death and suffering are everywhere. Votes: 0

For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid"” like a human-being. Like a very small and helpless human-being. Votes: 0

Talent alone is helpless today. Any success requires both talent and luck. And the 'luck' has to be helped along and provided by someone. Votes: 0

He left His Father's throne above, (So free, so infinite His grace!) Emptied Himself of all but love, And bled for Adam's helpless race. Votes: 0

Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy. Votes: 0

Oh, that most helpless and shameful of times in the life of my people, the time from dawn until the liquor stores open up! Votes: 0

We made mistakes learnt from them not to repeat it again. But some mistakes are made repeatedly but we feel helpless after doing it... Votes: 0

Scarlett: You should die of shame to leave me here alone and helpless. Rhett: You helpless? (laughs) Heaven help the Yankees if they capture you. Votes: 0

You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger. Votes: 0

A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless. Votes: 0

we know that our world is corrupt and diseased but we're tired of being cynical and feeling helpless. What the hell, tilt at a windmill. Votes: 0

I think that being vulnerable is about feeling helpless, or powerless... it's about allowing myself to be in a place where I could be hurt. Votes: 0

He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman. Votes: 0

Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment. Votes: 0

It'll leave you feeling hollow and helpless, and there is where you'll stay. Ain't it funny child, love sometimes leaves you as dead as yesterday. Votes: 0

Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to read in tomorrow's newspaper. Votes: 0

There is nothing preventing the enemy reaching Paris. We were fighting on our last line and it has been breached. I am helpless, I cannot intervene. Votes: 0

Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. Votes: 0

The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. Votes: 0

Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler Votes: 0

Man, the most complicated of the animals, has a relatively short gestation period. Beyond that, he will be born, unlike most mammals, in a ridiculously helpless state. Votes: 0

We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance. Votes: 0

I know I'm famous and irresitible - a combination whose properties closely resemble radioactivity - and I know that you in this room are helpless against me. Votes: 0

In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be concealed but a few paces away, he felt disarmed and helpless. Votes: 0

Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you. -Rhett Butler Votes: 0

What will I become? Because I won't be me any longer. That will be a relief. I dont want to be the helpless person I've always been. Votes: 0

Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made helpless even to live. Votes: 0

Now, because we have spent so many years convincing the younger people that we are helpless, they believe that we are no longer of use to this world. Votes: 0

The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than the government serves them. Votes: 0

The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimentality is the superstructure erected upon brutality. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Almighty Power, by whose most wise command, helpless, forlorn, uncertain, here I stand, take this faint glimmer of thyself away, or break into my soul with perfect day! Votes: 0

We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves. Votes: 0

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death. Votes: 0

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous. Votes: 0

The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless. Votes: 0

We begin life with loss. We are cast from the womb without an apartment, a charge plate, a job or a car. We are sucking, sobbing, clinging, helpless babies. Votes: 0

I know it was harder for me taking care of my dad during his cancer than it was going through my own. You feel more helpless as a caregiver. Votes: 0

Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If people feel lost and alone and helpless and broken and hopeless today, what will it be like if the world really begins to come apart at the hinges? Votes: 0

God gave us the gift of life. It is the most precious gift ever. To be unarmed is to be helpless to protect that gift; that is outright irresponsible. Votes: 0

The truth is that I feel totally helpless, or totally inconsolable, to be more honest. I'm not trying to hide it, but it's something you're not to worry about. Votes: 0

Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child. Votes: 0

Battle not with Hello Kitty lest ye become Hello Kitty; and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you with huge eyes and a helpless disposition. Votes: 0

Evil devastates any possibility of an intellectual response; the tools of the rational intellect are as helpless incoping with the aftereffects of evil as it was in preventing it. Votes: 0

We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If the Poe Lock were ever rendered unusable due to a terrorist attack or natural disaster, it would halt commerce on the Great Lakes and these industries would be helpless. Votes: 0

The noncook is in a helpless position, much like that of the car owner who can't change a tire and has to depend on mechanics to keep his automobile running. Votes: 0

Parents sometimes think of newborns as helpless creatures, but in fact parents' behavior is much more under the infant's control than the reverse. Does he come running when you cry? Votes: 0

A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her. Votes: 0

A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why? Votes: 0

... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous and the helpless tools of the guilty and bold. Votes: 0

Don't be impatient with me. Bear in mind that I hop around among all of you big beasts like a harmless and helpless frog who is afraid of being squashed. Votes: 0

he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course or alter it in any way. Votes: 0

We must recognize that if we feel helpless when facing the record of human depravity, there was always a point at which any particular scene of madness could have been stopped. Votes: 0

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless. Votes: 0

Be brave and upright that God may love thee; speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death; safeguard the helpless and do no wrong. That is your oath. Votes: 0

The sickness of the mother runs on through the girl, leaving her small and helpless. Liquor flies through her brain with the force of a gun, leaving her running in circles. Votes: 0

And being a husband made me helpless, because I had somebody to protect (somebody a little high-strung, who had a tough time emotionally with things like the lights going out indefinitely). Votes: 0

I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages. Votes: 0

We may be helpless to stop bad things from happening, but perhaps God leaves us signs and road maps to help us recover and reconnect, provided we know where to look. Votes: 0

Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations — not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children. Votes: 0

In every adult human there still lives a helpless child who is afraid of aloneness.... This would be so even if there were a possibility for perfect babies and perfect mothers. Votes: 0

I have no use for those- regardless of their political party- who hold some foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when unorganized labor was a huddled, almost helpless mass. Votes: 0

No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune rather than simply the recipient of it. Votes: 0

I'm helpless in post-round, hole-by-hole interviews. I can't take you through most of the holes of winning the Players Championship, the U.S. Amateur or Ryder Cup matches. It's like golf amnesia. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat. Votes: 0

Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions. Votes: 0

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it. Votes: 0

Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land. Votes: 0

I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. Votes: 0

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer. Votes: 0

But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly. Votes: 0

... and my love stays bitterly glowing, spasms of it will not sleep, and I am helpless and thirsty and need shade but there is no one to cover me- not even God. Votes: 0

I never have to grope for methods. The method is revealed at the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain I would be helpless. Votes: 0

I will never forget the feeling of walking into my home, a place that while drifting helpless in the middle of the Indian Ocean I wondered if I would ever see again. Votes: 0

Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A society remotely worth its salt eventually has to come to grips with the barbarism practiced upon helpless creatures in the name of scientific experimentation, tastier/tenderer meat, or more and larger eggs! Votes: 0

Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control. Votes: 0

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother. Votes: 0

If the next time our governments propose to make war on a helpless civilian population we were to uncover our grief and guilt instead of our anger, how much difference might we make? Votes: 0

Even our recreation was scheduled. There was no time to look for birds or wander into the nearby woods. We were put into teams and sent into violent pursuit of a helpless ball. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

However unapproachable these problems may seem to us and however helpless we stand before them, we have, nevertheless, the firm conviction that their solution must follow by a finite number of purely logical processes. Votes: 0

The elimination of individual capitalists and the replacement of private capitalism by state capitalism in Russia has not in the least altered the typical helpless and authoritarian character structure of the masses of people. Votes: 0

The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony. Votes: 0

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me. Votes: 0

Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The mind wants to forget because it weighs so much on the heart and soul. I am tired of crying and feeling so helpless. I want to breathe again -just for a little while. Votes: 0

The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong. It finds its highest freedom when it can secure justice to others. Votes: 0

You give bureaucrats power over others, and when the others are poor and helpless, nothing matches government. More than any single exploitive tyrannical force, the possibility of what government can do is absolutely terrifying. Votes: 0

The blankets had fallen off and I stared down at her white back, the shoulder blades sticking out as if they wanted to grow into wings, poke through that skin. Little blades. She was helpless. Votes: 0

Humans are born, weak and helpless. We're cursed with natural predators called parents. That's why the grandma was created. To protect us. Oh sure, she's old and frail. But she can kick your dad's ass. Votes: 0

They call war an art, but it isn't. It largely consists in outwitting people, robbing widows and orphans, and inflicting suffering on the helpless for one's own ends - and that's not art: that's business. Votes: 0

Where a great proportion of the people are suffered to languish in helpless misery, that country must be ill policed, and wretchedly governed a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization Votes: 0

Yet after night fall most any layover here, it seemed that they ended up cruising the bleak arterials of dismal L.A. backwaters, seeking out of some helpless fatality the company of lowlifes of opportunity." Votes: 0

Do we dare to be ourselves?' This is the question that counts - and not, 'Must a man be helpless?' ...A man can do something for peace without having to jump into politics. Votes: 0

If you would force me to be unarmed and helpless I would have to do everything in my power to neutralize you... Peace and love will get you killed. That doesn't sound like a hippie. Votes: 0

The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil. Votes: 0

The Court stands against any winds that blow as havens of refuge for those who might otherwise suffer because they are helpless, weak, outnumbered, or because they are nonconforming victims of prejudice or public excitement. Votes: 0

Tell her this And more,— That the king of the seas Weeps too, old, helpless man. The bustling fates Heap his hands with corpses Until he stands like a child With surplus of toys. Votes: 0

We are too solicitous for government intervention, on the theory, first, that the people themselves are helpless, and second, that the Government has superior capacity for action. Often times both of these conclusions are wrong. Votes: 0