Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

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

I'm able to do nothing.

Sometimes we feel like we're only interacting with what's already happening; we don't actually affect anything - sometimes I feel like that, anyway.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

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

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

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

History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.

It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.

I don't know if any genuine, meaningful change could ever result from a song. It's kind of like throwing peanuts at a gorilla.

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.

In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.

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

I'm like the man who is always supposed to fight, but never ends up fighting. He just spends money.

Anger without power is folly.

Why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do?

But they are useless. They can only give you answers

How little authority I have

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

It is not the strong who are dangerous to the world and to themselves. It is the weak and the inadequate who threaten - and sometimes destroy - mankind's peace and prosperity.

Don't imagine that a word you say is going to make a blind bit of difference.

I understand that people believe that they are impotent and can do very little.

All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.

To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox.