Helplessly Quotes

They are rather helplessly frank, but not, I hope, with all their rather helpless frankness, offensively frank. - William Dean Howells

The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. - Leonard Peikoff

The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats' teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice. - Mahatma Gandhi

The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions are. - Robert Browning

That horrific voyage is not unusual. Smugglers frequently beat their passengers or force them overboard while still well away from shore. UNHCR has in the past thanked the crews of passing ships who have saved people found drifting helplessly in the shark-infested waters. - William Spindler

Someone confronted with an electrocution, for example, usually stands there helplessly. - Susanne Woelk

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

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon. - John Berger