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Quotes About Help

I came here to help you, Puller. I know our last meeting was not a positive one. But your offer . . . it meant a lot to me. And you don't know how close I came to accepting it. And not a day goes by that I don't regret not going with you.
~ David Baldacci
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 tells us: "Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor. For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up.
~ Unknown
All the knives seem to lacerate your brain I've had my share I'll help you with the pain - Rock and Roll Suicide
~ David Bowie
You must learn that that's what friends and family are for – to be imposed upon. One of the Cardinal Rules, if you want to get through life without overexerting yourself, is that, when all else fails, fall back on friends and relations.
~ David Eddings
sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them.
~ David Foster Wallace
I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers...
~ David Foster Wallace
Help, the working Account Representative called, feeling the stir of a tinily remembered humid wind and pausing, again, to look behind him, past the Brougham's black hood and the carelessly dropped safety helmet beside the white cycle, at the Ramp that spiraled up and out of sight toward a street, empty and bright, before the Building, empty and bright, dispossessed, autonomous and autonomic. Bent to what two lives required, below everything, he called for help again and again.
~ David Foster Wallace
John's standard maneuver to ask someone to help him, especially in a moment of crisis
~ William R. Forstchen
What we want to do is keep from hindering. If it's impossible to help, it's always possible to hinder.
~ William Saroyan
If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue; yet to good wine they do use good bushes, and good plays prove the better by the help of good epilogues.
~ William Shakespeare
God's will! my liege, would you and I alone, Without more help, could fight this royal battle!
~ William Shakespeare
you do assist the storm.
~ William Shakespeare
There was an old saying about how God helped those who helped themselves. Preacher would have added that God watched over those who weren't damn fools to start with.
~ William W. Johnstone
you love your people but you don't understand them. They find God in each other. And when they lose each other, they lose God and they're lost. And it's hard to help them
~ Unknown
Qualified help was weak and timid. Either you come out dead against the attachment or else help without reservation, without giving the impression of reluctance and disapproval.
~ Winston Graham
Help, help, help, I am lost in the very deeps of the earth. Not eight feet underground but two hundred; blind already but not deaf, shuddering in the warm water, fingers burning last grip loosening; one nail, one rusty nail.
~ Winston Graham
Per me, Verity, l'inverno è finito. L'inverno e molto altro. Senza di te, non so che cosa ne sarebbe stato di me. Se ora l'inverno sta arrivando per te, pensi che potrei mai rifiutarmi di aiutarti solo perché vedo le cose in un altro modo? Non posso farmi piacere l'idea che tu sposi Blamey, ma questo è solo perché il tuo benessere mi sta immensamente a cuore. Questo però non significa che non ti aiuterò in ogni modo possibile.»
~ Winston Graham
the French are such assess, they are truly inept, for they have to go abroad for help.
~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
What you can't go through on your own, God will help you fly over.
~ Unknown
Inez: You always take the side of the help. That's why Daddy says you're a communist.
~ Woody Allen
If you pretend abundance when in fact you are in need, those who would aid you will not because they will either believe you to be abundant or recognize your pretense and consider you to be unworthy.
~ Wu Wei
Because I believed, that the more I obliged him in his Necessity, the more grateful he would be in his prosperity ; tho' I now well see the contrary.
~ Xenophon
I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me. In my experience, a castaway's worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little. Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.
~ Yann Martel
Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name. Have some food, some water, but Bengal tiger a serious problem. Please advise family in Winnepeg, Canada. Any help very much appreciated. Thank you.
~ Yann Martel