Helpless Quotes

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

The friendlies were South Vietnamese women and children, helpless victims in a war they did not understand.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.

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.

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

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.

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

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

In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.

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.

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.

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

I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.

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.

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.

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

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

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.

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

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.