Quotes of: Impotence Keyword

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

Carl Sandburg

Nothing exasperates the spirit in man more than power which seems unconquerable and which makes impotent all protest.

George William Russell

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

George Santayana

Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.

The Sun Watches the Sun

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

Theodor Adorno

To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.

Cary Grant

There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.

Norman Mailer

I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.

Pat Robertson

Don’t waste your time hating me; you can’t change me. Instead, hate your impotent life; THAT you can change.

Steve Maraboli

Emancipate yourself from the impotent mindset of, “It is what it is”. Life does not come labeled; it is what you make it.

Steve Maraboli

Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.

Peter Benenson

All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers.

Hjalmar Branting

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

Edward Dahlberg

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

Hunter S. Thompson

The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.

J. William Fulbright

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

Albert Camus

What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God's sovereignty.

Evangelism & the Sovereignty of God

Your potentials are called POTENTIALS because they are POTENT. Don't make them IMPOTENT by being IMPATIENT. Make an IMPACT".

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot be in reciprocal dependence upon one another.

Nicolas Malebranche

Too often our visions of the future are dull and impotent like a hammer beating the water.

Like A Hammer:Poems 1990 - 1999