Ray Davies Quotes

I'm beyond the point of thinking I'm powerful enough to solve my own problems.

If there's something I hate the most, it's feeling helpless, powerless.

I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't much I can do to stop them.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

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

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

How little authority I have

No one has it easy, and to some degree, everyone feels lonely and powerless, which may cause them to make hurtful decisions.

I was never a man of great ambition I cried too easily I didn't have a head for science Words often failed me While others prayed I only moved my lips

It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.

Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you aim, and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your goal.

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

It sometimes feels like I'm not doing anything.

I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.

Being bad at stuff is hard, and we all deal with it every day because we're all bad at stuff.

Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.

I can't really fight.

If I cry, it's because I'm very angry and I can't do anything about it because I've run into a dead end. That's when the tears would come down.

Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.

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

There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.

I'm the lamest lame duck there could be.

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.

No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.