Helping Quotes - Page 76

What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that's my function, but from time to time it's possible for me actually to help a writer. I read something and something strikes me then, I feel I can talk to that writer about it.

Dennis Cooper, God help him, is a born writer.

It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.

I enjoy helping young children succeed.

God's help is nearer than the door.

There were some things you did, no matter what, and when a friend needed help, you helped them.

Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.

If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.

I only know that all is lost, and that nothing can help me unless I inherit money, strike oil or go to work.

I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners.

If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of twenty million full-time volunteers.

I didn't do anything very pretty. My contributions were in the intangibles. But, they were the type of things that help lead a team.

Everything that you do in your life that helps you sweat is good for you.

Reason may not always tell us what to believe, but it can help us on what we shouldn't believe.

It is Christlike work to soothe and sympathize, and only those who have drunk the cup of sorrow are fully equipped to do it.

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

Let us help one another to bear our burdens.

Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.

. . . It is God's plan that those who are to help others spiritually fall into the temptations of mind and body by which others can be tormented. . . . Scorn both these evil suggestions and the wickedness of their author, who is the devil.

When I go to a concert, I can't help but feel happy and everything else just goes away. I hope everyone feels that way at my concerts.

Also, I think having a musicality about me, that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right.

Christ literally walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction. Those who will not help others until they are destitute reveal that Christ's love has not yet turned them into the sympathetic persons the gospel should make them.

Oppression is allowed to survive because people don't like to talk about it or about acts like what happened. We're hoping to counter some of that with the help of this banner.

May we realize how close to us He is willing to come, how far He is willing to go to help us and how much He loves us.

Logic has its use and metaphysics has its use, but neither of them is of much help in the making of a creed.