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Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose. -- Virgil
Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I feel helpless, hopeless, too low to call out, too weak to think. Impotent tears dribble down. -- Elizabeth Smart
Asks the Possible of the Impossible, "Where is your dwelling-place?" "In the dreams of the Impotent," comes the answer. -- Rabindranath Tagore
I'll cry!! Ububu... BUEEEEEEE!! I... Ichigo, you thupid! Baldy!! Piece of poop!Ichigo: Alright! Alright! I get it already, stop crying!Nel: Impotent!Ichigo: I'm not impotent!!Rukia: What's he shouting about?Nel: Virgin!!!Ichigo: SHUT THE HELL UP ALREADY!!! -- Tite Kubo
Law, without force, is impotent. -- Blaise Pascal
To freemen, threats are impotent. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary. -- William Shakespeare
Living fire begets cold, impotent ash. -- Chinua Achebe
Theory is the practice of the impotent. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Guns are the crutches of the impotent. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Words are impotent to describe certain emotions. -- Ella Maillart
Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire. -- Horace
Fear of ideas makes us impotent and ineffective. -- William O. Douglas
Nothing is more impotent than an unread library. -- John Waters
Both force and money are impotent against ideas. -- Ludwig von Mises
If a patient wants to live, doctors are impotent. -- Faina Ranevskaya
Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent. -- Frantz Fanon
Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent. -- Frantz Fanon
The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood. -- Thomas Jefferson
Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral. -- Richard M. Nixon
Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent. -- Freeman Dyson
Truth is orphan without matter and matter is impotent without truth. -- Kedar Joshi
Evangelism without social work is deficient; social work without evangelism is impotent. -- John Mott
But the works of man are impotent against the assaults of nature . . . -- Edward Gibbon
To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.] -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The clock is impotent; mechanical time does not affect those living in an eternal present. -- Paul Schrader
The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent. -- Carl Jung
[The American position at the UN is] essentially impotent, without influence, heavily outvoted, and isolated. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
Evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us. -- John Galt
To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it. -- Cary Grant
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act. -- Herodotus
People are not lazy, they simply have impotent goals..that is..goals that do not inspire them. -- Anthony Robbins
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People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them. -- Tony Robbins
Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism. -- Richard M. Nixon
He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
You get to have some mischief before you're basically a blackened banana, impotent, and nothing to be afraid of. -- Guy Maddin
We were talking briefly about cocaine... yeah. Anything that makes you paranoid and impotent, give me more of that! -- Robin Williams
Be driven with purpose. Be relentless in your alignment with excellence. Pay no mind to the disimpassioned impotent haters. -- Steve Maraboli
Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity. -- Kazimir Malevich
Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. -- Winston Churchill
Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything. -- Honore de Balzac
Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable. -- Aldous Huxley
The reason old man use Viagra is not that they are impotent. It's that old women are so very ugly. -- Jimmy Carr
Voting is the next-to-last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge, of course, is giving your opinion to a pollster. -- Neil Postman
Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity. -- Emily Dickinson
I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss. -- Pat Robertson
Pure Christianity and serious godliness fear not the scrutiny of a free thought, but despise the impotent malice of a prejudiced one. -- Matthew Henry
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
I'm dead, not impotent. Nasty rumors like that must be squashed before they gain momentum. Feel free to emphasize how very functional I am. -- Rachel Vincent
I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive. -- Aldous Huxley
Regrets... Regrets are bootless. A vain trick of the mind. An impotent raging against what cannot be changed anyway. A distraction from the moment. -- Andrew Ashling
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? -- Roseanne Barr
Love is like liquor, the drunker and more impotent you are, the stronger and smarter you think yourself and the surer you are of your rights. -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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
Um beim anderen Geschlecht Erfolg zu haben, muss man der Frau erzählen, man sei impotent. Dann kann sie es gar nicht abwarten, das Gegenteil zu beweisen. -- Grant, Cary
Either the conscious intellect is impotent, or is not sufficiently strong, or is not the factor positively connected with altruistic phenomenon generally or their sublime form particularly. -- Pitirim Sorokin
Scarlett kicked the coverlet in impotent rage, trying to think of something bad enough to say.'God's nightgown!' she cried at last, and felt somewhat relieved. -- Margaret Mitchell
A similar revolving fund could be set up for Germany, for a durable peace can rest only upon a Germany that, while militarily impotent, is industrially active. -- James Forrestal
The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own senses almost frozen in impotent horror. -- David Clement-Davies
Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore, are not conclusions of our reason. -- David Hume
Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else. -- Ted Rall
I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to eccentricities to make themselves noted. -- Horace Walpole
A relatively small and eternally quarrelsome country in Western Europe, fountainhead of rationalist political manias, militarily impotent, historically inglorious during the past century, democratically bankrupt, Communist-infiltrated from top to bottom. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
I felt impotent and out of control, which I really, really hate. I had to find sanctuary in a place where I could gather my thoughts and regain my strength. -- Cher
Some beliefs are rigid, like the body of death, impotent in a changing world. Other beliefs are pliable, like the young sapling, ever growing with the upward thrust of life. -- Sophia Lyon Fahs
I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong. -- A. C. Benson
The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended. -- Wassily Kandinsky
When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Short is her life, and impotent her sting; But when to truth allied, the wound she gives Sinks deep, and to remotest ages lives. -- Charles Churchill
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
Though completely armed with knowledge and endowed with power, we are blind and impotent in a world we have equipped and organized-a world of which we now fear the inextricable complexity. -- Paul Valery
Evasions are the common shelter of the hard-hearted, the false and impotent when called upon to assist; the really great alone plan instantaneous help, even when their looks or words presage difficulties. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
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
Cocaine for me was a place to hide. Most people get hyper on coke. It slowed me down. Sometimes it made me paranoid and impotent, but mostly it just made me withdrawn. -- Robin Williams
Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn't exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely. -- Sam Harris
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Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily. -- Gary North
Tutelage is a comfortable relationship for the senior partner, but it is demoralizing in the long run. It breeds illusions of omniscience on one side and attitudes of impotent irresponsibility on the other. -- Henry A. Kissinger
I'm really impotent against the overwhelming bleakness of the universe and the only thing I can do is my little gift [filmmaking] and do it the best I can, which is cold comfort. -- Woody Allen
Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be repossessed as his living private property they must be rendered impotent. -- John Carroll
In modern states, the citizen is politically impotent. A citizen, it is true, may complain, make suggestions, or cause disruptions, but in the ancient world these were privileges that belonged to any slave. -- Mark Mirabello
Why allow all the old memories to have supremacy? Make new ones, memories of such luster and beauty that, should the old ones come back, they would be pallid and impotent in comparison. -- Sherry Thomas
As I hold the flower in my hand and think of trying to describe it, I realize how poor a creature I am, how impotent are words in the presence of such perfection. -- Celia Thaxter
Power seems to confer on its possessor a mantle of superiority, specialness, and sexual potency, which the envious person desperately wants because he feels himself on some level to be inferior, unimportant, and impotent. -- Alexander Lowen
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance of financially impotent and sufficiently ingenious fools. -- H. G. Wells
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
When encountering emotional vampires, see what you can learn. It's your choice. You can simply feel tortured, resentful, impotent. Or, as I try to do, ask yourself, "How can this interaction help me grow? -- Judith Orloff
I'd have liked to have gone to bed with Jean Harlow. She was a beautiful broad. The fellow who married her was impotent and he killed himself. I would have done the same thing. -- Groucho Marx
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
When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win. -- Gerry Spence
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

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