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As a teenager, you have so much energy and hormones and you feel powerless in your life.
— Patricia Arquette
You ever want to feel powerless? Watch the people you care about being hurt and know there is nothing you can do about it.
— Corey Taylor
I was supposed to be powerless, and as a result they failed to see that I possessed claws.
— Nenia Campbell
Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom might destroy everything, an atom might save everything!
— Gerard De Nerval
You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it.
— Harvey Fierstein
A woman could be totally powerless, and still give meaning to her life by dreaming about flight.
— Fatema Mernissi
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
— Dante Alighieri
Never feel too small or powerless to make a difference.
— Anita Roddick
They have rejected that power and sought to convince women of the exact opposite, that they are powerless.
— Frederick Lenz
The lesson taught by the war was clear: to be human is to be small, powerless, and subject to the forces of randomness.
— David J. Morris
A powerless church has nothing for the devil to counterfeit.
— Bill Johnson
We must repent of the way that we, sometimes without even knowing it, have prized the powerful over the powerless.
— Russell D. Moore
If freedom rings, then bondage bombs.
— Anthony Liccione
Min hadn't just played the "friend" card - she'd dressed it up in all kinds of cool Batman imagery. Gunnar and I were powerless to resist.
— Brent Hartinger
I am powerless against the great magazines - I am an artist, and I will always be that.
— Werner Bischof
Confronting discomfort is giving me strength, in a world where perfect strangers can render me powerless.
— Veronica Larsen
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
— Chinua Achebe
The office of the president is the most powerful in the world. It is also, at times, the most powerless.
— Mark McKinnon
Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.
— Igor Stravinsky
We are very afraid of being powerless. But we have the power to look deeply at our fears, and then fear cannot control us.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
To lose one's health renders science null, are inglorious, strength unavailing, wealth useless, and eloquence powerless.
— Herophilos
Alas, is even Love too weak to unlock the heart and let it speak? Are even lovers powerless to reveal To one another what indeed they feel?
— Matthew Arnold
[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.
— Anne Sexton
If there was one thing I understood about God, it was that he was not good, and if he was good, he was too powerless to deserve our attention.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
Words are powerless when confronted by catastrophe; they're pitiable, wretched, and easily distorted
— Aharon Appelfeld
You want power-either because you've already had a taste of it and want more, or because you've been made to feel powerless for too long.
— Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Christians are not powerless. We have the mighty power of God available through God the Holy Spirit, even in this world.
— Billy Graham
All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
— Jean De La Fontaine
Despite billions of Sun, the universe is still in darkness! The wisdom of light is yet powerless!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
He was struck by how lives diverge and by how powerless each of us is up against the force of circumstance. And where does God figure in this?
— Philip Roth
When you have a child who wants to take his own life and you feel powerless, nothing else in life matters.
— Cristina Saralegui
If you are focused on your calling, the efforts of any adversary will prove powerless
— Sunday Adelaja
The quality and virtue of a slave is invisibility. The powerless need to be invisible even to themselves.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.
— Harriet Jacobs
The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.
— Jerome Frank
This, she realizes, is the basis of all fear. That a light you are powerless to stop will turn on you and usher a bullet to its mark.
— Anthony Doerr
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
— Quentin Crisp
This is not a war on drugs. This is a war on the poor. This is a war on the poor and the powerless, the voiceless and the invisible,
— Don Winslow
When i respect people they think that i'm powerless ...
— Manroop Suthar
It was less fun being the chosen one and prophet when the gods were violent and capricious and their spokesman was insane and powerless.
— James S.A. Corey
God has always worked through the small, the insignificant, the powerless - it seems to be sewn into the very fabric of the universe.
— Stephen R. Lawhead
There was nothing we could do; we were just a couple of powerless, poor kids, so desperate to find a way to be together.
— Renee Carlino
I believe in 'Positives' not Negatives the only thing about Alcohol I'm Powerless over is those Damn Taxes
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
My scars are numerous, my flesh is powerless, my enemy is dangerous, but my God is glorious and His grace is totally sufficient.
— Matt Papa
Being powerful or powerless is a habit.
— Krishna Sagar
You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
You can tell people of the need to struggle, but when the powerless start to see that they really can make a difference, nothing can quench the fire.
— Leymah Gbowee
Talents, to strike the eye of posterity, should be concentrated. Rays, powerless while they are scattered, burn in a point.
— Robert Aris Willmott
We will not be stupid girls. We will not be powerless girls. We will not be useless girls
— Margaret Peterson Haddix
We've lost control of this planet somewhere. There's an echo in that kind of tornado situation, where you're powerless facing those phenomena.
— Francis Alys
All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.
— David Eagleman
The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be?
— Andrew Sean Greer
Hello, I'm Stan and I'm a textaholic I am powerless over my thumbs
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Ghetto humor is the social twin of fantasy; together they sustain the powerless, who accomplish miracles through illusion.
— Sheila Ballantyne
Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
— Anne Enright
Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.
— Suze Orman
The only effect of the words of powerless people on the Internet was to inflict misery on other powerless people.
— Jarett Kobek
Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.
— Clive James
We are people who stand totally exposed before evil and death and declare them powerless against love.
— Rachel Held Evans
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
— Elie Wiesel
Sometimes you feel like you're in control and in charge of your life and everything is grand. Other times you feel powerless and insignificant.
— Robert J. Crane
What most people want, I guess? I want the individual to know that if we unite, we are not powerless.
— David Guetta
I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both.
— Aldous Huxley
We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless in the principle of forgiveness to the powerful.
— Christopher Hayes
The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.
— Code Of Hammurabi 1772 B.C.
Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
You're only powerless if you choose to be, no matter how many chains tie you to the ground.
— Danyelle Leafty
Fischer was a master of clarity and a king of artful positioning. His opponents would see where he was going but were powerless to stop him
— Bruce Pandolfini
My healthy blood was powerless to cure the sick blood of my beloved. That was beyond understanding. And so is death.
— Erich Maria Remarque
It was like a bad dream, in which people one knew quite well behaved fantastically, and one was powerless to escape from some dreadful doom.
— Georgette Heyer
The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith.
— Mark Galli
Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.
— Letty Cottin Pogrebin
I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.
— Karen Gillan
Never feel powerless when you have the power of love.
— Debasish Mridha
The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens.
— Johnnetta B. Cole
It happens as feature "Something"... always it happens... something just slow removes your control and makes you powerless....
— Deyth Banger
Nature is powerless to put asunder.
— Aldous Huxley
His pain hurt me in a way I'd never felt before. It was worse than my own pain. My strength wavered. I felt completely powerless.
— Kristen Simmons
For when I am powerless, it is then that I am strong..
— Paul The Apostle
Reason is powerless when we express love with empathy and kindness.
— Debasish Mridha