Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.
Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.
The champions of militant Islam are, of course, misogynists, woman-haters; they are also misologists - haters of reason. Their armed doctrine is little more than a chaotic penal code underscored by impotent dreams of genocide. And, like all religions, it is a massive agglutination of stock response, of cliches, of inherited and unexamined formulations.
We were talking briefly about cocaine. . . yeah. Anything that makes you paranoid and impotent, give me more of that!
A lot of men are impotent and it's very sad. How many of you are impotent? I see. Can't get your arms up either?
Theory is the practice of the impotent.
Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.
Asks the Possible of the Impossible, "Where is your dwelling-place?" "In the dreams of the Impotent," comes the answer.
It is necessary a writing critic should understand how to write. And though every writer is not bound to show himself in the capacity of critic, every writing critic is bound to show himself capable of being a writer; for if he be apparently impotent in this latter kind, he is to be denied all title or character in the other.
I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor, A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave-- The world goes round forever; I think that life is not too long, And therefore I determine, That many people read a song, Who will not read a sermon.
Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can and does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?
The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.
To freemen, threats are impotent.
I feel helpless, hopeless, too low to call out, too weak to think. Impotent tears dribble down.
Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity.
[The American position at the UN is] essentially impotent, without influence, heavily outvoted, and isolated.
In a fallen world marked by human depravity and deep-seated sin, in a world where Hitler and Stalin had recruited millions of followers to commit mass murder, love must harness power and seek justice in order to have moral meaning. Love without power remained impotent, and power without love was bankrupt.
As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred. The truly great haters in world history have always been priests; likewise the most ingenious haters: other kinds of spirit hardly come into consideration when compared with the spirit of priestly vengefulness.
Nothing is more impotent than an unread library.
Fear of ideas makes us impotent and ineffective.
