Nadia Comaneci Quotes

There is nothing you can do about it but sit back and watch.

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.

Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change events anyway.

Americans are really good at throwing their hands up and walking away from things.

I have become a fatalist in life, so I don't try to set goals.

I knew exactly what I was doing: I was doing nothing. because I knew there was nothing to do.

shane:do we have a choice michael:dont think so shane:then screw im gitting tired lets go get eaten.at least then i can get some sleep

The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.

I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a fairly drab existence to its conclusion.

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.

I don't care about losses anymore.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

There's not anything, I don't think, that I can do or accomplish.

When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating.

One victory more or less doesn't make the difference for me now.

I'm the lamest lame duck there could be.

I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by.

Dead men have no victory.

What the hell, it doesn’t make any difference. Have a drink.