#helpless

There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it; without it the brain and the hand would be helpless. ↗

— Gertrude Jekyll

#actual #brain #deal #enables #feels

Children who are not encouraged to do, to try, to explore, to master, and to risk failure, often feel helpless and inadequate. Over-controlled by anxious, fearful parents, these children often become anxious and fearful themselves. This makes it difficult for them to mature. Many never outgrow the need for ongoing parental guidance and control. As a result, their parents continue to invade, manipulate, and frequently dominate their lives. ↗

— Susan Forward

#boundaries #children #control #controlled #failure

Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze? ↗

— Jean Kerr

#cup #do you know #feel #full #hand

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#depths #ether #helpless #irresponsible #man

People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#death #die #dies #families #helplessly

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#feeling #filled #helplessness #history #national

The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil. ↗

— Ted Nugent

#arms #bearing #coming #evil #helpless

I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless. ↗

— Kevin O'Leary

#behind #failing #felt #get #helpless

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#advertising agencies #agencies #business #cannot #deaf

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit. ↗

— John Owen

#helpless #helps #leave #mortification #must