(68 quotes found)
“No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.”
Kin Hubbard
“When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“My mother groan'd, my father wept Into the dangerous world I leapt, Helpless, naked, piping loud, Like a fiend hid in a cloud”
William Blake
“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.”
Archibald Alexander
“Deaf, giddy, helpless, left alone, To all my friends a burden grown; No more I hear my church's bell Than if it rang out for my knell; At thunder now no more I start Than at the rumbling of a cart”
Jonathan Swift
“It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.”
George Bernard Shaw
“The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves”
Charles Reade
“I don't know. We just lost some momentum somewhere. It's a helpless feeling when you can't get anything going.”
Casey Blake
“He has been hopeless and helpless. It was just so hard to see as a coach.”
Bart Schouten
“When you have so many all at once, even the professionals start feeling a sense of helplessness,”
Daniel Pearson