Powerless Quotations

I never cared about modeling. As a model, you're powerless.

When you label so much of what happens to you as 'bad,' it reinforces the feeling that you are a powerless pawn at the mercy of outside forces over which you have no control. And - this is key - labeling something a bad thing almost guarantees that you'll experience it as such.

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.

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

Before the sacred, people lost all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my - conscience.

Growing up as a young black girl in Potomac, Maryland was easy. I had a Rainbow Coalition of friends of all ethnicities, and we would carelessly skip around our elementary school like the powerless version of Captain Planet's Planeteers.

America was born in outrageous ambition, so bold as to be improbable. The deprived, the oppressed, the powerless from all over the globe came here with little more than the desire to realize themselves.

My father, John Steinbeck, was a man who held human history in great reverence, and in particular the biographies of those people who had risked their lives, their fortunes, and their worldly honor to defend the rights and prerogatives of those who were powerless to defend themselves.

I did a lot of research on real serial killers, and they're not Hannibal Lecters. They're cruel men who are given the opportunity to do something terrible, and a lot of the time it's about impotence. They feel powerless in the real world.

Before the sacred, people lose all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by my declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my - conscience.

Science, it is said, no doubt has ameliorated the material conditions of human life, but is powerless to solve those moral and philosophical questions that interest cultured people so deeply.

We must stop trying to protect our planet from every imaginable, exaggerated or imaginary risk. And we must stop trying to protect it on the backs, and the graves, of the nation's and world's most powerless and impoverished people.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

The test of our social commitment and humanity is how we treat the most powerless of our fellow citizens, the respect we accord to our fellow human beings. That is what reveals our true culture.

If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.

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

In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.

Of course I think it's relevant to what is happening today, ... We experience a lot of oppressive forces and we're powerless to a certain extent.

If they want to make general managers powerless to set a budget and decide what they want to do, and just have a budget set in New York that is supposed to apply to Toronto, Nashville etc., that's not going to fly with the players, ... I know that's not a recipe for a solution.

Many, including the Canadian and U.S. governments, try to provide family support while also maintaining a hard line about further fuelling terrorism and hostage-taking through ransom payments ... Still, try telling that to a mother, or a father, or a husband or wife caught in the powerless agony of standing by.

I feel powerless to not be able to defend my world title, ... I'm frustrated because it's one thing to miss the world's if you're not in shape or strong enough, but it's another because of injury. These things happen in cycling and unfortunately I've become accustomed (to being sidelined with injuries).

I ended up going over the deep end. There's nothing worse than feeling powerless over your own career. I checked myself into rehab.

I have always felt my role was to do anything I could to enable the powerless to speak. I want America to hear these voices because they are beautiful voices.

OPEC became powerless the moment it sold its last barrel of excess capacity, and that was maybe a year ago.

I think people feel powerless because we don't have the time and the energy to go do the things that really make us happy.

I think people have a sense that right now Democrats are completely powerless in Washington, that they're just sort of bystanders. But there's a danger of Democrats' looking always like they are carping. It's important for them to articulate some kind of vision.

The anti-choice forces are political extremists and religious fundamentalists, who are looking to make women subservient, powerless and unequal.

We're used to being powerless in this country. Then a group of small towns stands up and says, 'We do not agree, and we'll do everything we can to stop you.

Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it.

Public radio has always been so powerless.

The Delphi bankruptcy is a real watershed point for the UAW, ... The UAW is virtually powerless now.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

They're just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue.

Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.

U2 have inspired and empowered millions with their music and by speaking out on behalf of the poor, the powerless and the oppressed.

Dreams are powerless unless they are specific.

Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

What most people want, I guess? I want the individual to know that if we unite, we are not powerless.

Every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world.

We were feeling really powerless and frustrated. We were literally trying to imagine what we could do to change how we were being talked about and represented and portrayed. I don't think there's any other family celebration that's so public and so well covered.

The selfishness must be discovered and understood before it can be removed. It is powerless to remove itself, neither will it pass away of itself. Darkness ceases only when light is introduced; so ignorance can only be dispersed by Knowledge; selfishness by Love.

These (soldiers) are trying . . . to do their best for their country. They know (the graft is) going on, and they're powerless to do anything about it.

These (soldiers) are trying .Ê.Ê. to do their best for their country. They know (the graft is) going on, and they're powerless to do anything about it.

Writers can feel pretty powerless in the big corporate world of publishing, but sometimes our greatest power is the ability to say 'no.'

Even though many of these outside economic and social factors that affect student achievement are beyond the control of our schools, we are not powerless in overcoming these challenges, and these schools are living examples that with hard work and diligence, we can make progress,

PURE FORMALISM as such, without attention to referential social axioms, is powerless to capture the relevance of many discourse grammatical functions.

People get stuck on power, but good swings can generate effortless speed, not powerless speed. Powerless speed comes from this violent effort to swing the club, and that's not how it works.

Teachers are powerless to fight bullying of whatever type outside the school.

At a time people want to end rule by kings, if he is still allowed to act unconstitutionally and take such bold steps, how can we hope to have a non-interfering, powerless king?

I prefer working, period. I think that I like doing film more just because when you get a script, you have the story from start to finish, so you can really find the character's arc, and when you walk away from it, you know you're sort of powerless to what happens.

The gods of men are sillier than their kings and queens, and emptier and more powerless

All evidence indicates that Judge Roberts would use his undeniable impressive legal skills to bring us back to a country that most of us wouldn't recognize, where states' rights trump civil rights, where the federal courts or Congress can see discrimination, but are powerless to remedy it.

Power is only important as an instrument for service to the powerless.

For the last decade, we have been amazed and delighted by what we can do online. And yet people feel increasingly powerless to stop unscrupulous individuals and companies from infecting their computers with programs that they didn't request. The providers of Internet services and software simply must get this problem under control so the users can realize the full potential of their access to the Internet.

Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.

The war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.

We've all, at some point in our lives, been in a position where we have felt powerless.

If you think you are powerless, then you are

Powerless rage can work miracles.

Worry comes from the belief you are powerless.

Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it.

If your mind is scattered, it is quite powerless.

A prayerless Christian is a powerless Christian.

Without joy in your life you are powerless.