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Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.

William James

OPEC became powerless the moment it sold its last barrel of excess capacity, and that was maybe a year ago.

A. F. Alhajji

I feel so powerless. I had a beautiful, happy family, a good husband, everything seemed so perfect. Then our whole world came apart.

Zhang Huanzhi

There was a lot of uncertainty. Then all you could do was sit and watch the news. You felt powerless.

Samantha Perez

Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to bestow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

These are people who are seen to be relatively powerless, invisible, easy targets for hate and . . . heavily stigmatized and misunderstood.

Lelia Deandrade

Of course I think it's relevant to what is happening today, ... We experience a lot of oppressive forces and we're powerless to a certain extent.

Adrien Brody

I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

J. Edgar Hoover

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

Blaine Lee

They didn't want to feel powerless or have to rely on the doctor to make all of the decisions.

Sarah Bass

The gods of men are sillier than their kings and queens, and emptier and more powerless.

Maxwell L. Anderson

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The anti-choice forces are political extremists and religious fundamentalists, who are looking to make women subservient, powerless and unequal.

Cheryl Sabel

I ended up going over the deep end. There's nothing worse than feeling powerless over your own career. I checked myself into rehab.

Ira Dean

The poor in Resurrection City have come to Washington to show that the poor in America are sick, dirty, disorganized, and powerless - and they are criticized daily for being sick, dirty, disorganized, and powerless.

Calvin Marshall

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Elie Wiesel