The wind is not helpless for any man's need, Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed.
The important thing is to tell yourself a life story in which you, the hero, are primarily a problem solver rather than a helpless victim. This is well within your power, whatever fate might have dealt you.
I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.
How dare politicians continue to pass insane laws forcing good, law-abiding people to be defenseless and helpless.
When you feel helpless, help someone.
I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home. At a really young age, I decided I was never going to feel helpless, I was never going to feel weak around a man, and I was never going to rely on anyone. Independence was a big, big thing for me.
They call war an art, but it isn't. It largely consists in outwitting people, robbing widows and orphans, and inflicting suffering on the helpless for one's own ends - and that's not art: that's business.
You're on your own now. You are not helpless. You will find your way.
Republicans are obsessed with abortion. . . if they really wanted to protect the weakest, most helpless people, wouldn't they protect the Democrats?
we know that our world is corrupt and diseased but we're tired of being cynical and feeling helpless. What the hell, tilt at a windmill.
I've always thought that the best solution for those who feel helpless is for them to help others.
The helpless can't help the helpless.
I would never take a case that had to do with abusing children. They're the true innocents. All of the rest of us, we have smears and stains, but they're helpless. I couldn't add my talent, which is prodigious, to a defense of someone even accused of hurting a child. I would never defend a cop - though I did on a few private cases, when cops were acting not as cops but as private citizens. Other than that, I represented everybody who came by.
It is impossible to win a contest with a helpless opponent since if you win you have won nothing.
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.
By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home. "
Parenthood has the power to redefine every aspect of life - marriage, work, relationships with family and friends. Those helpless bundles of power and promise that come into our world show us our true selves- who we are, who we are not, who we wish we could be.
Like a moth to a flame we become helpless to the beautiful ghosts that true love sheds.
If there's a more helpless feeling than trying to reach someone you love who's trapped underground, I don't know it.
I will never forget the feeling of walking into my home, a place that while drifting helpless in the middle of the Indian Ocean I wondered if I would ever see again.