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Friends,' said Laurent, 'Is that what we are?'
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Damen said, with helpless honesty, 'Laurent, I am your slave. — C.S. Pacat

You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination. — F Scott Fitzgerald

A woman in love is helpless. — Coco Chanel

Republicans are obsessed with abortion ... if they really wanted to protect the weakest, most helpless people, wouldn't they protect the Democrats? — Bill Maher

The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God. — William Barclay

My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery. — Mahatma Gandhi

There was a sweetness in my voice I found nauseating. I made a note to myself never to have children. Or at least not helpless children. — Tod Goldberg

Do you honestly want credit because you didn't do anything to a helpless female?"
"No! Yes. No, damn it - — Kresley Cole

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. — Nelson DeMille

I have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance. — Bill Nighy

There is help for the helpless, hope for the hopeless, and forgiveness for the inexcusable. — Mary A. Perez

There is no freedom from the evil of your own heart.'
'There is no freedom in helpless self-pity and remorse. — Michael Grant

The beast retires to it's shelter, and the bird flies to it's nest; but the helpless man can only find refuge in his fellow creature. — Oliver Goldsmith

Her dad was wrong about worrying. Cath liked to worry. It made her feel proactive, even when she was totally helpless. — Rainbow Rowell

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. — Velma Wallis

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. — Julie Anne Peters

Compassion
is not helpless
pity, but an
awareness and
determination
that demands
action. — Dalai Lama

You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too. — Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time. — Thomas Sowell

We couldn't change anything, and in times of war, people become helpless and vulnerable. — Shannon A. Thompson

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire! — Belva Plain

Course, mountains serve as homes to mountain goats and mountain lions, who enjoy attacking helpless picnickers and eating sandwiches or children. So — Lemony Snicket

Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone. — Ramakrishna

Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray. Your helplessness is your best. prayer. — Ole Hallesby

The bold are helpless without cleverness. — Euripides

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

I feel so helpless When you look at me that way I'll do anything for you Only for you — Emma Chase

She was weak and helpless, shaken in mind and nerve. It was to take her at a disadvantage to obtrude love upon her at such a time. — Arthur Conan Doyle

When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hopeless and helpless doth AEgeon wend,
But to procrastinate his lifeless end. — William Shakespeare

It is impossible to win a contest with a helpless opponent since if you win you have won nothing. — Jay Haley

I'd rather drop dead doing for myself than add a day to my life by acting helpless. — Marilynne Robinson

Most of us walk the helpless road simply because we forget to take care of ourselves. — Ngina Otiende

Hormones are very powerful things. We are helpless in their wake. — Meg Cabot

India will not be a helpless partner in her own exploitation and foreign domination. — Mahatma Gandhi

The one thing our species is helpless against is good fortune. It first puzzles, then frightens, then angers, and finally destroys us. — John Steinbeck

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. — Jeff Lindsay

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

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. — Mahatma Gandhi

It was the helplessness that scared the both of us. — Lois Lowry

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

Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe. — Mary Hunter Austin

When you feel helpless, you'll do just about any old thing to shut off your head. — Joe Hill

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? — Brandon Andress

I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless. — Kevin O'Leary

This was what the songs wrote about; with one kiss, I was helpless to pull away. With one kiss, I was a boneless mess, and with one kiss, I was his. — Amelia Hutchins

I think we have to help the helpless. The clueless? I don't give a rat's ass about the clueless. — Dennis Miller

My mathematics is helpless against the sea. — Norman Lock

That's a man's vital spot, the helpless thing he loves. ("Jane Brown's Body") — Cornell Woolrich

I feel more helpless with you than without you. — Adrienne Rich

Unhappiness comes when we feel helpless. Hope comes the minute we decide we are not. — Toni Sorenson

Someday, somehow, I am going to do something useful, something for people. They are, most of them, so helpless, so hurt and so unhappy. — Edith Cavell

Sometimes I do believe in predestination. I feel helpless to do anything but what I am compelled to do. — Why The Lucky Stiff

The only thing I can see in Jasper Dale's face is helpless and utter confusion. — Hetty King

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

He was like a lion, eager to feed but still stalking his prey. He didn't want to scare her off. But she was helpless in her own desire for him. — Sylvain Reynard

Hopeless and helpless doth Egeon wend, But to procrastinate his liveless end. — William Shakespeare

She had grown up highly ornamental, but perfectly helpless and useless. — Charles Dickens

Sometimes you have to allow yourself to be helpless. — Sarah Noffke

You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless. — Chin-Ning Chu

I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed. — S.J. Watson

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. — Sherman Alexie

I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it. — Mos Def

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

Is the kind of smile she loves best: It's like a sneeze, a reflex, a twitch, helpless and automatic, and it only happens when he looks at her. — Jennifer E. Smith

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. — Charles Wesley

A surge of emotion washed over him, took him under. He was helpless against it, flailing, gasping for air. Drowning in her. — Hanna Martine

My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies. — W.C. Fields

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

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. — Vivien Leigh

Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up. — Octavia Butler

When you feel helpless, help someone. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Recreational sex is thus supposed to function as the glue holding a human couple together while they cooperate in rearing their helpless baby. — Jared Diamond

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless. — James Baldwin

He'd been trying to save this woman in his dreams for years. Now here she was, all grown up, and he still felt helpless. — B. J. Daniels

Orangutan babies are like human babies: helpless. — Willie Smits

You're going to find Tigerstar. Against that fiend, every cat is helpless. — Erin Hunter

She would always be short, but she wasn't helpless and she wasn't small. Not anymore. — Anne Bishop

[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him. — James Hudson Taylor

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

Like a moth to a flame we become helpless to the beautiful ghosts that true love sheds. — Ryan O'Neal

It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity. — George Bernard Shaw

Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support. — Mahatma Gandhi

It is natural to feel helpless when attempting the impossible. — George Hammond

All people are born creative. And there's nobody who's helpless, nobody. — Barbara Marx Hubbard

A stone is helpless, because a stone is hard. The stone must by its own nature go downwards, because hardness is weakness. — G.K. Chesterton

I have died every day in my mind with disgust for not being able to protect my own children. — Pawan Mishra

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

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. — Lionel Trilling

No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish. — Kin Hubbard

Christianity would be helpless without the idea of free will and the idea of
free will would be helpless without incongruity. — Kedar Joshi

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. — Philip Roth

The pain was so huge he felt small and weak and helpless inside it, — George R R Martin

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned. — William Bartram

Helplessness is a place of power if you're helpless before God. Ask God for help in everything you do. — Joyce Meyer

Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. — Margaret Mitchell

I am helpless because I achieved popularity more than what I actually am. — Shankar Lamichhane

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. — Richard Steele

If you feel helpless, go help someone. — Aung San Suu Kyi

A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories! — Phyllis Bottome