Feigned Helplessness Quotes & Sayings

Hegel's philosophy is so odd that one would not have expected him to be able to get sane men to accept it, but he did. He set it out with so much obscurity that people thought it must be profound. It can quite easily be expounded lucidly in words of one syllable, but then its absurdity becomes obvious. — Bertrand Russell

My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure. — Kanye West

Telling the truth should be kept as a last resort, Daniel, even more so to a nun — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

God can cure any illness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I change jobs like drinking water ... And as I grow accustomed to the new flavor of a drink I regard as delicious, yes, vital, something fades, life balks. So I break camp; I shed skins. — Rita Dove

Both boys stayed very quiet for a few minutes, neither one wanting to say anything he might regret. — John Boyne

Old Rose: It's been 84 years, and I can still smell the fresh paint. The china had never been used. The sheets had never been slept in. Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was. — James Cameron

If I've learned anything at all from the river it's to let jarring events come and go, that such tiny disruptions have no more weight in the world than fallen leaves on the water. A few ripples, a barely audible splash, and the surface soon returns to order. To swim toward each intrusion, to fish out a leaf and to sling it ashore, only prolongs the disturbance. — Steve Himmer

Sometimes it feels like you're losing, but even when you're losing, you're getting something. — Eliza Dushku

Manipulating emotions is the most important function of meaningful art. — Ryan Quinn

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide. — Thornton Wilder

And so back up the ravines to the comfortable places (the sane ones?) where we don't have to think too much. Where life is, after all, just 'getting by' and where we survive, half asleep. — Robyn Davidson

Let us endure these storms. — Barack Obama

A report by ArchCity Defenders, a non-profit group, found that the municipal court in Ferguson - a city of 21,135 people - issued 32,975 arrest warrants last year, mostly for traffic violations. These fines and fees were the second-biggest source of the city's $20m income. — Anonymous