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“I think having kids just makes you want to do things to help people. You have children and you see how fragile and innocent and helpless they are when they first start out. If they are going to be a victim of whatever they are surrounded by, I just do everything I can to try to make whatever change I can.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Trying Firsts Children I Can Helping Kids Victim Innocent Fragile Helpless Having Kids

Author:Lisa Marie Presley

“It's my mission to share this with the world and to let them know that there is life on the other side of those dark times that seem so hopeless and helpless. I want to show the world that there is life -- surprising, wonderful and unexpected life after diagnosis.”

Knows World Want Shows Seems Sides Dark Wonderful Share Missions Unexpected Hopeless Surprising Helpless Diagnosis Dark Times

Author:Demi Lovato

“Hannah expected this to make her sob even more, but instead she found her tears drying up and her tummy growing warm. How dare they? How dare they do this to little girls? She understood now why her parents go so angry when they saw the result of bombers in the white hot streets of the Middle East, why men and women wailed in anger as well as grief as they lifted the limp bodies of children from the rubble. How dare they? No, she wasn't going to die like this, wrapped up like some helpless baby.”

“I hated the things they believe in, the things they so innocently and charmingly pretended. I hated the sanctimonious piety that let people hurt helpless creatures. I hated the prayers and the hymns - the fountains and the red images that coloured their drab music, the fountains filled with blood, the sacrifice of the lamb.”

People Believe Hurt Prayer Christianity Sacrifice Blood Creatures Red Filled Hated Vegetarian Helpless Fountain Judaism Piety Lambs Hymns Sanctimonious

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong. It finds its highest freedom when it can secure justice to others.”

Humans Soul Justice Highest Cruelty Secure Helpless Human Soul Saddest Imprisonment

Author:Jenkin Lloyd Jones

“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.”

Thinking Way Has Beens Emotion Angry Treated Helpless

Author:Sherman Alexie

“When you feel bad, find a person to talk to and cry with, to tell of your anger and other helpless feelings.”

Feels Persons Feelings Cry Helpless

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“The noncook is in a helpless position, much like that of the car owner who can’t change a tire and has to depend on mechanics to keep his automobile running.”

Running Car Position Depends Owners Helpless Mechanic Tire Automobile Can't Change

Author:Raymond Sokolov

“If I was to meet Lou Reed or Bob Dylan, I would be totally helpless. Writers and musicians make me feel completely starstruck.”

Ifs Feels Would Be Musician Bob Helpless Dylan Reeds

Author:Toby Stephens

“Helpless, tortured, shot, blown up, my best buddies all dead, and all because we were afraid of the liberals back home, afraid to do what was necessary to save our own lives. Afraid of American civilian lawyers. I have only one piece of advice for what it's worth: If you don't want to get into a war where things go wrong, where the wrong people sometimes get killed, where innocent people sometimes have to die, then stay the hell out of it in the first place.”

People Ifs Want Firsts War Sometimes Home Dies Hell Pieces Advice Shots Lawyer Innocent Helpless Civilians Buddy Back Home One Piece Best Buddies

Author:Marcus Luttrell

“This perception that the only people that come to Crown are helpless victims and we are just sitting there preying on them, you know, I reject that absolutely and that does upset me. And I think that that is, you know, that is a spin line from the latte set, which is completely wrong.”

People Thinking Knows Doe Lines Perception Sitting Victim Upset Rejects Crowns Helpless Revealing Lattes

Author:James Packer

“In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.”

Men Wells Ends Eye School Together America Form Girl Women Friendship Groups Friends Couple Affair Clubs Divorce Permanent Helpless Committees Cousin Heartless Girl Friend

Author:Cyril Connolly

“I don't think there is anyone who needs God's help as much as I do. Sometimes I feel so helpless and weak. I think that is why God uses me. Because I cannot depend on my own strength, I rely on Him twenty-four hours a day.”

Thinking Needs Feels Sometimes Helping Use Faith Hours My Own Four Depends Weak Twenties Rely Helpless Using Me Need God

Book:No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition

Source: No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition

“Notice what happens when you doubt, suppress, or act contrary to your feelings. You will observe decreased energy, powerless or helpless feelings, and physical or emotional pain. Now notice what happens when you follow your intuitive feelings. Usually the result is increased energy and power and a sense of natural flow. When you're at one with yourself, the world feels peaceful, exciting, and magical.”

World Feels Feelings Happens Pain Energy Natural Results Doubt Emotional Flow Exciting Contrary Peaceful Helpless Powerless Intuitive Emotional Pain

Book:Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations

Source: Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations

“The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to dangerous seas, where fragments of great wrecks were drifting, perhaps, and helpless men were rocked upon them into a sleep as deep as the unfathomable waters.”

Men Water Sleep Sea Dangerous Wind Fingers Mysterious Helpless Fragments Hints Wrecks Drifting Stormy Unfathomable Spires

Book:Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“We begin life with loss. We are cast from the womb without an apartment, a charge plate, a job or a car. We are sucking, sobbing, clinging, helpless babies.”

Jobs Loss Car Baby Casts Plates Apartment Helpless Womb Clinging Sobbing

Book:Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

“History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by democratic methods people get a government strong enough to protect them from fear and starvation, their democracy succeeds; but if they do not, they grow impatient. Therefore, the only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government.”

Source: Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944

“To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any guilt to alienate affection, must surely awaken tenderness in every human mind; and tenderness once excited will be hourly increased by the natural contagion of felicity, by the repercussion of communicated pleasure, by the consciousness of dignity of benefaction.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.”

Men Doe Prejudice Helpless Persecution

Author:James A. Baldwin

“You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and in real danger.”

Way Real Situation Danger Suspense Novelists Helpless Protagonists Suspense Novels

Author:Nelson DeMille

“Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is out to abuse, cheat, humiliate, betray, envy... . And special in this is the child's feeling that the parents' love, their Christian charity, honesty, generosity ... may be only a pretense.”

World May Children Feelings Christian Parent Special Honesty Anxiety Abuse Charity Envy Generosity Betray Helpless Cheat Insignificant Pretense Deserted Humiliate Parents Love

Author:Karen Horney

“But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay; Invention, Nature's child, fled stepdame Study's blows; And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way. Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: "Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart, and write.”

Way Writing Looks Heart Children Said Stills Speak Study Feet Fool Blow Stranger Invention My Way Spite Pens Helpless Muse Biting

Author:Philip Sidney

“You give bureaucrats power over others, and when the others are poor and helpless, nothing matches government. More than any single exploitive tyrannical force, the possibility of what government can do is absolutely terrifying.”

Giving Government Force Can Do Poor Possibility Gossip Helpless Bureaucrats Power Over Others

Author:Millicent Fenwick

“To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.”

Self Sick Illness Sickness Carrie Helpless Narcissistic Hazards Humiliating Absorption Self Absorption

Book:The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it

Source: The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it

“He left His Father's throne above, (So free, so infinite His grace!) Emptied Himself of all but love, And bled for Adam's helpless race.”

Father Jesus Left Race Grace Infinite Adam Helpless Thrones

Book:Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book

Source: Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book

“The paralyzing effect of fear makes us as helpless as babies and blinds us to the truth that God didn't send us here to be powerless spectators, but to become powerful initiators. We are spiritual beings having an earthly experience, and we have the power to break the cycle of negativity that is fueling a very dangerous world. It's not only possible, it's why we are here.”

World Spiritual Spirit Powerful Break Effects Dangerous Baby Cycles Negativity Helpless Powerless Spectators Spiritual Beings Dangerous World Why We Are Here

Author:Susan L. Taylor

“As Albert Einstein once said to me: "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity." But what is much more widespread than the actual stupidity is the playing stupid, turning off your ear, not listening, not seeing.”

Humans Said Two Universe Seeing Stupid Listening Ears Infinite Stupidity Two Things Helpless Human Stupidity

Author:Frederick Salomon Perls

“It'll leave you feeling hollow and helpless, and there is where you'll stay. Ain't it funny child, love sometimes leaves you as dead as yesterday.”

Children Sometimes Feelings Sadness Yesterday Helpless Hollow Children Love

Author:Zakk Wylde

“Man, the most complicated of the animals, has a relatively short gestation period. Beyond that, he will be born, unlike most mammals, in a ridiculously helpless state.”

Men States Born Animal Periods Complicated Helpless Mammals Gestation Gestation Period

Author:Willard Gaylin

“One time you smash a bug with no mercy. Another time you find one helpless on his back with his legs flailing the air, and you flip him over and let him go on his way. The struggle that touches the heart.”

Way Heart Struggle Air Goes On Mercy Legs One Time Helpless Bugs Flip Another Time Let Him Go Flailing

Author:Charles Portis

“In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational. Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?”

World Science Turns Logic Scientist Rational Cosmos Justification Helpless Irrational Predictions Equations Reckless Betting Buffoons

Book:Einstein's Dreams

Source: Einstein's Dreams

“No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune rather than simply the recipient of it.”

Feels Trying May Likes Misfortunes Helpless Unbearable

Author:Susie Orbach

“There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.”

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Author:Sam Shepard

“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.”

Ifs Men Children Creatures Miserable Savior Helpless Invitations Gracious Children Of Men

Book:Practical Truths

Source: Practical Truths

“I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.”

Knows Desire Creatures Convinced Insane Helpless Asylums Insane Asylum

Book:The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)

Source: The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)

“The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage.”

Feels Hands Seems Stage Reflection Scripts Glasses Flames Touching Helpless

Author:Terence Fisher

“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.”

Children Mines Going Away Trapped Helpless Never Quit

Author:Virginia C. Andrews

“The sickness of the mother runs on through the girl, leaving her small and helpless. Liquor flies through her brain with the force of a gun, leaving her running in circles.”

Running Mother Girl Force Brain Family Gun Leaving Circles Sickness Helpless Liquor Running In Circles

Author:Lou Reed

“Prayer is vastly superior to worry. With worry, we are helpless; with prayer, we are interceding. When I hear sad news, I try to say a prayer for the victims. When I am troubled, I will say a prayer that asks for relief for myself and for all those who suffer as I do. When I am concerned about my relatives or friends I say a short prayer to myself - "May they be happy and free of suffering."”

Trying May Suffering Asks Peace Prayer Worry News Concerned Victim Superiors Relief Helpless Short Prayer

Author:Mary Pipher