Impotent Man Quotes

#1. The man who reacts to the universe with a cry of impotent anguish is acceptable as an artist only if he can persuade us that he has sanely considered the other possible reactions and found them inadequate.

Kenneth Tynan

#2. The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.

Herodotus

#3. Know then, proud man, what a paradox you are to yourself. Be humble, impotent reason! Be silent, feeble nature! Learn that man infinitely transcends man, hear from your master your true condition, which is unknown to you.

Blaise Pascal

#4. Who will sell the Cow, must say the word.

George Herbert

#5. You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more.

Philip Roth

#6. Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some - or occasionally lose.

David Pleat

#7. Who, cher monsieur, will sleep on the floor for us? Whether I am capable of it myself? Look, I'd like to be and I shall be. Yes, we shall all be capable of it one day, and that will be salvation.

Albert Camus

#8. Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand.

Ian MacKaye

#9. Messersmith, in a dispatch, observed that even smart, well-traveled Germans will "sit and calmly tell you the most extraordinary fairy tales.

Erik Larson

#10. There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.

Nikolai Gogol

#11. I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.

Pat Robertson

#12. I'm pursuing soundtrack work in the southern California area and down the line I plan to make a moody, intense acoustic album. Not all acoustic, but an acoustic - oriented guitar record that I've already written most of the material for.

Ronnie Montrose

#13. The reason old man use Viagra is not that they are impotent. It's that old women are so very ugly.

Jimmy Carr

#14. It was probably indecent to think of a corpse as impotent. But he was, very likely. That would be why his wife had taken up with the prize-fighter Red Evans Williams of Castell Goch.

Ford Madox Ford

#15. But the works of man are impotent against the assaults of nature ...

Edward Gibbon

#16. Bill Polian and I agreed when we first came together with the Buffalo Bills that we'd bring players only of high character to the team.

Marv Levy

#17. Nothing exasperates the spirit in man more than power which seems unconquerable and which makes impotent all protest.

George William Russell

#18. Even though the topic [of slavery] itself is the big, screaming elephant in the room, we still get a chance to have fun and enjoy what is on the screen, and we have moments where we're actually happy.

Aldis Hodge

#19. As an actress, I really love people like Anna Magnani and Debra Winger. I also think there is nobody better than Meryl Streep.

Penelope Cruz

#20. Without a conscious life-purpose a man is totally lost, drifting, adapting to events rather than creating events. Without knowing his life-purpose a man lives a weakend, impotent existence, perhaps even becoming even sexually impotent or prone to mechanical and disinterested sex.

David Deida

#21. The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent.

Carl Jung

#22. There can be no doubt ... of our dependence upon forces beyond our control. Primitive man was so impotent in the face of these forces that g , especially in an unfavorable natural environment, fear became a dominant attitude, and, as the old saying goes, fear created gods.

John Dewey

#23. God is so omnipotent yet man so impotent, the Divine masterpiece was not even in creating the universe, but in making sin boring to sinners.

Criss Jami

#24. I did this to stay alive. Because you are a vicious, stupid, impotent man. - Shira, to Kadir

Alwyn Hamilton

#25. Instead of a thoroughgoing democracy, Americans have settled for democratic stagecraft.

Nancy Isenberg