Powerless Quotes

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

Wandering between two worlds, one lost, the other powerless to be born. — David Lodge

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

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless. — Jules Verne

A powerless church has nothing for the devil to counterfeit. — Bill Johnson

Powerless But for the star destroyer Unknowing She crash-lands in his heart. — Elizabeth Fama

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

Intolerance is evidence of fear, and fear is the consequence of feeling powerless. — Dean Frazer

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless. — Adam Davidson

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

I'm whining. It's unattractive, but I find I'm powerless to stop — Libba Bray

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 law should be a shield for the weak and powerless, not a club for the — Roy Barnes

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

I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. — Thom Yorke

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. — Quentin Crisp

We are powerless when we wait for other people to act on our behalf. — F.H. Batacan

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

The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker. — Karl Marx

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 scolding voice is her own, so abrasive and quick, yet so powerless to move her. — Carol Shields

The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be? — Andrew Sean Greer

If a person is outside the sin zone, the devil is powerless against him. — Sunday Adelaja

Hello, I'm Stan and I'm a textaholic I am powerless over my thumbs — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Stop feeling powerless and small when you are adorned with power of love. — Debasish Mridha

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

To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne. — Cynthia Ozick

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

Pride had given way at last, obstinacy was gone: the will was powerless. — Emmuska Orczy

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

Without the cross we have a meaningless and powerless Christianity. — Michael Catt

Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control. — Mike Norton

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

What attention would death pay to his pathetic voice? He was powerless without her. — Ted Dekker

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

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. — Paulo Freire

Art can bring us consolation as individuals," he said, "but it is powerless against reality. — Stefan Zweig