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“If you are sure that you are about to fail, then this strange and serene calmness can come over you or the most abject fear and panic and feeling of helplessness.”

Ifs Feelings Failing Strange Over You Panic Calmness Helplessness Serene

Author:Peter Gallagher

“I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me.”

Source: Promise at Dawn

“This is not the time for political fun and games. This is the time for a new beginning. I ask you now to put aside any feelings of frustration or helplessness about our political institutions and join me in this dramatic but responsible plan to reduce the enormous burden of Federal taxation on you and your family.”

Feelings Political Asks Games Fun Plans Responsible Institutions Burden Enormous Our Family Dramatic Frustration New Beginnings Taxation Helplessness Political Institutions

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981

“If my tone is mocking, the tone of someone accustomed to helplessness, this is natural: the poet is a condemned man for whom the State will not even buy breakfast and as someone said, "If you're going to hang me, you mustn't expect to be able to intimidate me into sparing your feelings during the execution."”

Ifs Men Said States Feelings Able Natural Poet Tone Breakfast Execution Accustomed Intimidating Helplessness

Author:Randall Jarrell

“What is called “apathy” is, I believe, a feeling of helplessness on the part of the ordinary citizen, a feeling of impotence in the face of enormous power. It’s not that people are apathetic; they do care about what is going on, but don’t know what to do about it, so they do nothing, and appear to be indifferent.”

People Knows Believe Feelings Care Faces I Believe Citizens Ordinary Enormous Apathy Indifferent Helplessness Impotence Apathetic Ordinary Citizens

Author:Howard Zinn

“You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.”

Feelings Natural Scary Disaster Helpless Helplessness Natural Disaster Really Scary

Author:R. L. Stine

“A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.”

Men Heart Feelings Pride Constant Generosity Appeals Charm Magnificent Declaration Gracious Helplessness

Author:Honore de Balzac

“A child with an intense capacity for feeling can suffer to a degree that is beyond any degree of adult suffering, because imagination, ignorance, and the conviction of utter helplessness are untempered either by reason or by experience.”

Children Reason Feelings Suffering Imagination Ignorance Degrees Adults Capacity Conviction Intense Helplessness

Book:Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)