Mastodawn

... He calls on Nato members to provide naval chaperones and accuses them of cowardice and ingratitude for refusing. He comes across as peevish and flustered. #Impotence is #not a #good #look in a potentate.

Michela Dec 31

Pensando fosse solo vento.
L’impotenza dell’amore.

Assoli notturni è online

Thinking it was only the wind.
The powerlessness of love.

#assolinotturni #michiyospace #night #wind #silence #love #impotence #stillness

Pensando fosse solo vento - LandEscape
https://michiyospace.altervista.org/pensando-fosse-solo-vento/

Pensando fosse solo vento - LandEscape

I demoni, a volte, non hanno né corna né nome. Si infilano piano, quasi in punta di piedi, e quando te ne accorgi è già tardi: tuo figlio è giù, e tu non hai visto niente. È questa la cosa che fa più male. Non il buio, non la fatica. L’impotenza. Perché un genitore, spesso,

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Michela Dec 31

Pensando fosse solo vento.
L’impotenza dell’amore.

Assoli notturni è online

Thinking it was only the wind.
The powerlessness of love.

#assolinotturni #michiyospace #night #wind #silence #love #impotence #stillness

Michela Dec 31

Pensando fosse solo vento.
L’impotenza dell’amore.

Assoli notturni è online

Thinking it was only the wind.
The powerlessness of love.

#assolinotturni #michiyospace #night #wind #silence #love #impotence #stillness

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gary Nov 27

@eff you should probably have a warning against law school too, to be fair #impotence

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Richard Rathe Nov 9

@streetartutopia

Reminds me of this brief but profound scene from Dickens "A Christmas Carol"...

"[Scrooge] had been quite familiar with one old ghost, in a white waistcoat, with a monstrous iron safe attached to its ankle, who cried piteously at being unable to assist a wretched woman with an infant, whom it saw below, upon a door-step."

👉 The misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power for ever.👈

https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/carol/3.html

#CharlesDickens #AChristmasCarol #Illustration #Misery #Impotence #Ghosts

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Jun 5, 2025

A quotation from Fletcher Knebel

But a democracy is different. Each of us has got to feel that we can influence events, no matter how slight the influence. When people start believing they can’t they get frustrated, and angry. They feel helpless and they start going to extremes.

Fletcher Knebel (1911-1993) American author
Seven Days in May, “Tuesday Afternoon” [Lyman] (1962)[with Charles W. Bailey II]

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #democracy #effectiveness #extremism #frustration #helplessness #impact #impotence #influence

Seven Days in May, "Tuesday Afternoon" [Lyman] (1962)[with Charles W. Bailey II] - Knebel, Fletcher | WIST Quotations

But a democracy is different. Each of us has got to feel that we can influence events, no matter how slight the influence. When people start believing they can’t they get frustrated, and angry. They feel helpless and they start going to extremes.

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tend2wobble May 5, 2025

@Npars01 @GottaLaff @theogrin Was thinking more of frustrated lust and perversion, riding him with spurs and can’t be thrown off. #Age #Impotence #senility #DeathOnPaddedFeet #Fear

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Apr 8, 2025

A quotation from Joubert

It is always our inabilities that irritate us.

[Ce sont toujours nos impuissances qui nous irritent.]

Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist, philosopher, essayist, poet
Pensées [Thoughts], ch. 5 “Des Passions et des Affections de l’Âme [On the Soul], ¶ 29 (1850 ed.) [tr. Calvert (1866)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/joubert-joseph/76115…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bother #impotence #inability #incapacity #incompetence #ineptitude #irk #irritation #weakness #worry