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Quotes About Assistance

At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book.
~ Anne McCaffrey
The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had been there to have assisted him, they could not have effected it with greater propriety.
~ James Hogg
Nothing makes it more difficult to help than the intention of doing so.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Perhaps everything fearful is basically helplessness that seeks our help.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Perhaps every terror is, in its deepest essence, something that needs our recognition or help.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Perhaps everything terrifying is at bottom the helplessness that seeks our help.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
At once the senior pilot arose in his mighty bulk and began to struggle into his coat, with awe-inspiring upheavals. The stranger and I hurried impulsively to his assistance, and directly we laid our hands on him he became perfectly quiescent. We had to raise our arms very high, and to make efforts. It was like caparisoning a docile elephant. With a Thanks, gentlemen, he dived under and squeezed himself through the door in a great hurry.
~ Joseph Conrad
Help him! Help who? Help the bombardier! I'm a bombardier. Help him, help him! Help who?
~ Joseph Heller
Doc Daneeka was Yossarian's friend and would do just about nothing in his power to help him.
~ Joseph Heller
She put me in front of some foundation that paid off my student loans...
~ Josie Brown
In the end, we must each tend to our own gulfs of sadness, though others can assist us with kindness, food, good words, and music. Our human tendency is to fill these holes with distractions like shopping and fast romance, or with drugs and alcohol.
~ Joy Harjo
Grace is the power of God to help us in other areas in which we cannot help ourselves.
~ Joyce Meyer
But we all hoped, in whatever way our capacities permitted, to define and illustrate the worthy life. With me it was always to be done in words; Sid too, though with less confidence. With Sally it was sympathy, human understanding, a tenderness toward human cussedness or frailty. And with Charity it was organization, order, action, assistance to the uncertain, and direction to the wavering.
~ Wallace Stegner
Wherever a great heart throbs and rages, wherever a liberating thought flares up, there Athena is present, summoned rather by heroic readiness than by humble supplication. From her own lips we hear that she is attracted by prowess, not by good will or devotion to her person. The men who can most surely rely upon her offer her no unusual reverence, and it is unthinkable that her assistance should ever be motivated by the exemplary obedience of her protégés.
~ Walter F. Otto
I've learned that almost anyone will help if you ask for it.
~ Wendy Mass
that. Amanda and Leo tried to help me last year
~ Wendy Mass
Because I'm a doctor, I tried to help whenever someone was injured. People were choking on tear gas and we'd pour cola on their faces, which counters the effect of gas. Their faces were sticky and glistening.
~ Wendy Pearlman
Thorne nodded. Body tingling again. It was his pleasure to help Kris. Too much his pleasure.
~ Wendy Rathbone
There is no reason to feel embarrassed when you reach out to a professional for help, because the person you are reaching out to is someone who has literally dedicated their life to helping people like us live, instead of merely exist.
~ Wil Wheaton
I want a pit crew... I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems.
~ Dave Barry
I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay.
~ Dave Matthews Band
Your son having to have a poo-team," said Mrs Stokes. "I've never heard of that before in such a young person. So, where are they? How many people normally help him go to the toilet?
~ David Baddiel
What can I do to help thee?" he asked. "Believe there is a tomorrow.
~ James Clavell