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Ashes keep drifting onto my paper, charcoal snowflakes on a minefield of blanks, words bouncing around off each other uttering impotent images of sight sound terror life crying for recognition, narcissistic eunuchs reflecting my face, ruining the snowfield. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 2 years ago
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace, to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete. – President Reagan	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If true, it means current South Korean and Japanese missile defense systems become close to impotent. – Lionel Fatton	Found on CNN 2 years ago
A highly partisan new CIA chief would be seen with great suspicion in foreign capitals, thereby rendering our liaison partnerships close to impotent until the next administration, simply put, that puts America at great risk. – Marc Polymeropoulos	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense -- the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and untrammeled; if the mind is shackled or made impotent through fear, it makes no difference under what form of government you live, you are a subject and not a citizen. – William E. Borah	added by Normando 4 years ago
They have been impotent in the face of the greatest threat that we have ever known -- one that we experienced first-hand here in El Paso a week ago Saturday, it's almost as if the bigger the lie, the more obvious the injustice, the more furious the pace of this bizarre behavior, the more incapable we are of seeing it and clearly naming it and acting against it. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Seeing the impotent dances of the bureaucrats in Brussels at the sight of the new waves of nationalism and populism. – Sergiu Spatan	Found on CNN 6 years ago
A macho man wants to hide his pain and not show his weakness and vulnerability, some men say they feel impotent and guilty for being unable to defend their family from rape and or attacks. – Ildefonso Jaimes	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Others like him feel impotent, powerless to solve the problems their people face, and have taken their own life. – Luis Fernando Arias	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
He hoped his people would be helped and they could return to the jungle. He spoke at the Constitutional Court about the Nukak's plight. But nothing happened, others like him feel impotent, powerless to solve the problems their people face, and have taken their own life. – Luis Fernando Arias	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
In most of those states what they did worked but in Alaska it doesn’t, in Alaska they had an impotent system. – Art Hackney	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
In most of those states what they did worked but in Alaska it doesn't, in Alaska they had an impotent system. – Art Hackney	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent. – Edward Dahlberg	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself. – Paul Valéry	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind. Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities. – Dee W. Hock	added by anonymous 13 years ago
So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. – Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 12, 1936	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete. – Ronald Reagan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent. – Frantz Fanon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Ashes keep drifting onto my paper, charcoal snowflakes on a minefield of blanks, words bouncing around off each other uttering impotent images of sight sound terror life crying for recognition, narcissistic eunuchs reflecting my face, ruining the snowfield.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace, to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

– President Reagan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If true, it means current South Korean and Japanese missile defense systems become close to impotent.

– Lionel Fatton

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A highly partisan new CIA chief would be seen with great suspicion in foreign capitals, thereby rendering our liaison partnerships close to impotent until the next administration, simply put, that puts America at great risk.

– Marc Polymeropoulos

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense -- the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and untrammeled; if the mind is shackled or made impotent through fear, it makes no difference under what form of government you live, you are a subject and not a citizen.

– William E. Borah

added by Normando
4 years ago

They have been impotent in the face of the greatest threat that we have ever known -- one that we experienced first-hand here in El Paso a week ago Saturday, it's almost as if the bigger the lie, the more obvious the injustice, the more furious the pace of this bizarre behavior, the more incapable we are of seeing it and clearly naming it and acting against it.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Seeing the impotent dances of the bureaucrats in Brussels at the sight of the new waves of nationalism and populism.

– Sergiu Spatan

Found on CNN
6 years ago

A macho man wants to hide his pain and not show his weakness and vulnerability, some men say they feel impotent and guilty for being unable to defend their family from rape and or attacks.

– Ildefonso Jaimes

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Others like him feel impotent, powerless to solve the problems their people face, and have taken their own life.

– Luis Fernando Arias

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He hoped his people would be helped and they could return to the jungle. He spoke at the Constitutional Court about the Nukak's plight. But nothing happened, others like him feel impotent, powerless to solve the problems their people face, and have taken their own life.

– Luis Fernando Arias

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In most of those states what they did worked but in Alaska it doesn’t, in Alaska they had an impotent system.

– Art Hackney

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In most of those states what they did worked but in Alaska it doesn't, in Alaska they had an impotent system.

– Art Hackney

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

– Edward Dahlberg

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being the helpless prey of impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, and crowning injury inflicts upon him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.

– Paul Valéry

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind. Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.

– Dee W. Hock

added by anonymous
13 years ago

So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

– Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 12, 1936

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

– Ronald Reagan

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.

– Frantz Fanon

added by anonymous
14 years ago

So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

– Winston Churchill

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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