Quotes About Assistance

The material in this book was compiled from tape recordings, from the rich store of memory of J. B. West, and from his extensive personal files. To prepare for interviewing Mr. West, I read the following books, as a background on White House history. I am also grateful to James R. Ketchum, a true White House historian, for his assistance in research and preparation of the manuscript.

There was another exception: when your friends were in trouble.

Those who want to win and lack skill can get someone with skill to help them. I

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

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to her. Grandma had been over and Evan needed help with his math homework. He had that frustrated, screwed-up-mouth look that he sometimes got with math or spelling or writing reports. Mom called it his "he's-a-gonna-blow!" look. But Grandma couldn't help him

All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it.

See, you have to marry me. I seem to scare off all the help.

When they see those fourteen lights, they're looking at a miracle. And deep down, they feel that whatever's going to happen, there will be someone there to help them. And that fills them with hope.

If we would endeavor, like men of courage, to stand in the battle, surely we would feel the favorable assistance of God from Heaven. For he who giveth us occasion to fight, to the end we may get the victory, is ready to succor those that fight manfully, and do trust in his grace. —THOMAS À KEMPIS

Asking for help when you can do it yourself is perceived as a sign of weakness.

Theo explained, in what he thought was perfect Spanish, that Julio needed extra help with his algebra. Evidently, she did not understand perfect Spanish because she asked Julio what Theo was talking about.

urging him to assist the lords in their campaign to expel the French permanently from Scotland.

If you're God's instrument, Owen, I said, how come you need my help to stuff a basketball?

You remember how I used to tell you that I was Doctor Larch's helper? Homer asked Angel. Right, said Angel Wells. Well, I got very good--at helping him, Homer said. Very good. I'm not an amateur

Those who plead for the lives of the unborn should consider the lives of the living. ...the unborn are not as wretched or as in need of our assistance as the born! Please take pity on the born!

That's the problem with people, Kanan said. They never need help on your schedule - only theirs.

The events in Prague, together with the Berlin blockade, convinced the European recipients of American economic assistance that they needed military protection as well: that led them to request the creation of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which committed the United States for the first time ever to the peacetime defense of Western Europe.

that American economic assistance would produce immediate psychological benefits and later material ones that would reverse this trend; that the Soviet Union would not itself accept such aid or allow its satellites to, thereby straining its relationship with them; and that the United States could then seize both the geopolitical and the moral initiative in the emerging Cold War.

But governors and mayors were demanding help, beseeching everyone in Washington for help. Massachusetts officials in particular were begging for help from outside the state, for doctors from outside, for nurses from outside, for laboratory assistance from outside. The death toll there had climbed into the thousands. Governor Samuel McCall had wired governors for any assistance they could offer, and on September 26 he formally requested help from the federal government.

We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach.

For the primary and secondary school years, we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and private schools.

It will help at every state along the road to learning. For the pre-school years we will help needy children become aware of the excitement of learning.

If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect.