Helpless
Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant.
Beyond help; irremediable.
Bringing no help; unaiding.
Unsupplied; destitute; -- with of.
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Helpless Quotations
There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
Hunter S. Thompson
The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
Billy Graham
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
Rainer Maria Rilke
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
Woodrow Wilson
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
David Ogilvy
Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?
Jean Kerr
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The bold are helpless without cleverness.
Euripides
Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.
Robert Mugabe
I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.
James Herriot
Helpless Translations
helpless in Dutch is waar niet aan te doen valt, hulpeloos
helpless in German is hilflos, ratlos
helpless in Italian is impacciato, perplesso
helpless in Latin is inops
helpless in Spanish is desvalido
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