Helpful Quotes - Page 2

• Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.

  C. S. Lewis

  Choices, Joy, Ransom

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• If it is not truthful and not helpful, don't say it. If it is truthful and not helpful, don't say it. If it is not truthful and helpful, don't say it. If it is truthful and helpful, wait for the right time.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Waiting, Truthful

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• The best thing you can do for the poor is not to be one of them.

  Reverend Ike

  Poor, Ministers, Needy

  "The golden gospel of Reverend Ike" by Clayton Riley, www.nytimes.com. March 9, 1975.

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• The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.

  Paul Newman

  Good Night, Healing, Sleep

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• During my time as England captain I have always been both helpful and direct in my communications with the ECB.

  Kevin Pietersen

  Communication, Captains, England

  "Strauss steps into England hot seat as Pietersen resigns and Moores sacked" by Mikey Stafford, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2009.

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• I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Growing Up, Thinking, Big Families

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• And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Grateful, Years, Two

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• Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.

  Anne Roiphe

  Art, Writing, Doe

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• There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in political leadership.

  Rick Santorum

  Skills, People, Political

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• Throughout my life, the scriptures have been a way for God to reveal things to me that are personal and helpful. When I was a little boy, I was given a small Bible. If I remember correctly, it was only the New Testament.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Boys, Littles, Way

  "A Discussion on Scripture Study". Interview with LaRene Porter Gaunt, www.lds.org. July, 2005.

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• I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Heart, Thinking, Voice

  Larry King Live, transcripts.cnn.com. August 17, 2010.

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• I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Responsibility, Want, Large Family

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• Desperate times call for desperate measures" is an aphorism which here means "sometimes you need to change your facial expression in order to create a workable disguise." The quoting of an aphorism, such as "It takes a village to raise a child," "No news is good news," and "Love conquers all," rarely indicates that something helpful is about to happen, which is why we provide our volunteers with a disguise kit in addition to helpful phrases of advice.

  Daniel Handler

  Love, Children, Mean

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• I think being a little nuts is helpful.

  Carter Burwell

  Thinking, Nuts, Littles

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• Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.

  John Cusack

  Islamic, Black And White, Evil

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• Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.

  Gene Tierney

  Found, Stage, Be Good

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• Mother used to say it meant Christopher was a nice name because it was a story about being kind and helpful, but I do not want my name to mean a story about being kind and helpful. I want my name to mean me.

  Mark Haddon

  Mother, Nice, Mean

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• Any time I find medicine that's helpful, I share it with everyone I know.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Medicine, Share, Knows

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• A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.

  Victor Hugo

  Angel, Men, Evil

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3429, Delphi Classics

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• When you're in a competitive environment, always give out the impression that you don't care. It makes people want you more. If you act desperate, it's over. I think a passive attitude is helpful. It comes naturally because I'm lazy.

  Diablo Cody

  Attitude, Thinking, People

  "Running with Diablo". Interview with Matt Smith, www.citypages.com. December 26, 2007.

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• I believe in celebrating the female figure and embracing what we've been given, not hiding that.

  Miranda Kerr

  Believe, Female, Hiding

  "Miranda Kerr: face of a goddess, figure of an Angel, wife of an elf". Interview with Miranda Collinge, www.esquire.com. May 1, 2013.

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• I don't believe in men waiting until they are ready to die before using any of their money for helpful purposes.

  George Eastman

  Believe, Men, Waiting

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• I do know a lot about Scientology. And I know about the practices. I know all about what the technology is and all that kind of stuff. It's very helpful.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Technology, Practice, Stuff

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• Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.

  Lalla Ward

  Fog, Snow, Friendly

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am the most helpful and open up doors for everyone and I like to share.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Motivational Sports, Bodybuilding

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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