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Quotes About Assistance

Simon's initial annoyance with having so many people and animals swarming around gave way to the realization that sometimes people didn't get in the way, but helped make a necessary and tedious job go smoother.
~ Nora Roberts
Rude or not, she'd accept his offer of help.Then as far as she was concerned, Grant Campbell could go to the devil.
~ Nora Roberts
She should offer to help, she thought. It seemed the right thing to do. But she was so dreadfully tired, and it was so pleasant to just sit in the big kitchen with rain drumming musically on the roof and watch him handle the simple task of making breakfast.
~ Nora Roberts
Help," he said, "is giving part of yourself to somebody who comes to accept it willingly and needs it badly.
~ Norman Maclean
To make a career of rescuing people is also to create a permanent class in need of rescue.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
In a true emergency, there is no place better than a library and no hero more helpful than a librarian - someone who knows where to find exactly the right book for the occasion.
~ Clara Vulliamy
We want more than chocolate cake, said Rachel. We need your help. Jacques seemed unflustered by the girl's sudden impatience. But chocolate cake is a good starting point, oui?
~ Colin Meloy
Someone helps you out by accident, it's still help.
~ Colson Whitehead
prevention supports the health care infrastructure, is an effective use of health care resources, and assists those most in need by decreasing disparities in health.
~ Larry Cohen
I'm not so arrogant to think I'm the only guide someone needs ... but I might be the guide that someone needs.
~ Laura Anne Gilman
We forget all sorts of things that no one helps us remember
~ Laura Dave
Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves
~ Laura Esquivel
You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone. Each person has to save himself first, then you can move in and help. I have found this philosophy does not work during a gun battle, or a knife fight either. Outside of that it works just fine.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
By the way, thanks for rescuing me out there.' Hitch just smiled. 'It was nothing kid. Everyone needs rescuing once in a while.
~ Lauren Child
I need to help you kill someone and hide the body?
~ Lauren Dane
This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.
~ Lauren Oliver
Castile's regent, Cardinal Ximenes de Cisneiros, had just died on his way to assist the inexperienced King Charles
~ Laurence Bergreen
Should they be thanked or does thanks drive them away? "You honor us," she stammered. "We request your help.
~ Cecilia Dart-Thornton
You are never strong enough that you don't need help.
~ Cesar Chavez
To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.
~ Charles Babbage
Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
~ Charles de Secondat
things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up
~ Charles Dickens
I don't feel any vulgar gratitude to you[for helping me]. I almost feel as if You ought to be grateful to ME, for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity. . . I may have come into the world expressly for the purpose of increasing your stock of happiness. I may have been born to be a benefactor to you, by giving you an opportunity of assisting me.
~ Charles Dickens
The great principle of out-of-door relief is, to give the paupers exactly what they don't want; and then they get tired of coming.
~ Charles Dickens