Helping Quotes - Page 24

• No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, or the Reatles' White Album?

  Milan Kundera

  Music, Two, Piano

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• May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

  Robertson Davies

  Sad, Depression, Writing

  Robertson Davies (1999). “"For Your Eye Alone": Letters 1976-1995”, McClelland & Stewart

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• It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan.

  Marlo Thomas

  Years, Two, Track

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• Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

  Betty Friedan

  Mother, Children, Pain

  "The Feminine Mystique". Book by Betty Friedan, Ch. 1 "The Problem That Has No Name", 1963.

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• I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they would ask for one egg. But mostly no one came by at all. It was very demoralising.

  Lynne Truss

  Dad, Eggs, People

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2010.

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• I know it is said repeatedly that I was in support of the American invasion in Iraq. It is simply not true. I was in favor of helping the Iraqis, and most specifically Ahmad Chelebi and the Kurdish leadership to set up an independent government of free Iraq. I think that would have been the right thing to do.

  Bernard Lewis

  Independent, Thinking, Support

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• I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

  Anne Lamott

  Believe, Parent, Trying

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• I'm a terrible punster. And I love to rhyme. I just can't help myself.

  Duane Michals

  Rhyme, Terrible

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• There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument.

  Thomas Gray

  Atheist, Religion, Belief

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• I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Directors, Actors, Help Me

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• I think I can speak for every Senator, saying that he or she ran for the Senate because we want to help make this a better place; that is, we want to help our States and help America.

  Max Baucus

  Thinking, America, Want

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• We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

  Douglas Coupland

  Historical, Tools, Eras

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• Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

  Aharon Appelfeld

  Art, Reality, Imagination

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• Wealth and honor, benefits and blessings shall enrich my life; poverty and failures, grief and anxiety shall help fulfill it. In my life, I will serve heaven and earth; in death I will find peace.

  Zhang Zai

  Grief, Blessing, Anxiety

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• ... the ancient joy of helping the tribe to survive is constantly rekindled in the engineer's heart.

  Samuel Florman

  Heart, Engineering, Joy

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• I've learned that if you want people to join in any kind of conservation effort, you have to help them to care with their hearts, not just their heads.

  Jane Goodall

  Heart, People, Effort

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• I've thought about it, not a lot, but I thought my relationship with Congress - the Democrats and Republicans - would help me get some things done. Not everything, but at least they'd be willing to try.

  Bob Dole

  Trying, Done, Republican

  "Bob Dole: Great American" by Jeanne Marie Laskas, www.gq.com. June 25, 2012.

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• President Obama came to visit me in the hospital. He said, 'I wish you were still in the Senate; I need your help.' I'm not certain I can help on everything. Maybe some things.

  Bob Dole

  Wish, President, Needs

  "Bob Dole: Great American" by Jeanne Marie Laskas, www.gq.com. June 25, 2012.

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• A lot of people saved IBM. Yes, I was the leader of that team but I could never have done it without a group of IBMers helping me.

  Lou Gerstner

  Team, People, Leader

  "In Focus: Lou Gerstner". Interview with Richard Quest, edition.cnn.com. July 2, 2004.

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• What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Hero, Cutting, Guy

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

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• It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.

  Robert Kennedy

  Dirty, Ideas, Politics

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• And don't think that by eating freedom fries you are being patriotic and helping the war effort. Use less gasoline, read a newspaper. You know what, how about we cool it with the freedom fries anyway you fat asses. We're the fattest country in the world. Have you ever walked around an American mall? It's nothing but chick fillets and Lane Bryant track suits busting at the seams.

  Tina Fey

  Country, War, Patriotic

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• Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the Word with boldness. Even when threatened with punishment, he said that he could not help but share the things he had seen and heard.

  David Jeremiah

  Punishment, Spirit, Holy

  David Jeremiah (2011). “Signs of Life: Back to the Basics of Authentic Christianity”, p.61, Thomas Nelson

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• The ego is often deeply involved in the desire to help others. If you do not want your ego to be involved in this way, do not be available for others unless you really want to be available. Do not feel that you should be available. Don't sacrifice yourself in any way. Don't go against your true feelings. Don't carry the cross for anyone else. Make sure that there's no sense that helping others makes you a better person or that it will gain you easy access into Heaven. Don't be a martyr.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Sacrifice, Helping Others, Heaven

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• By helping yourself, you are helping humankind. By helping humankind, you are helping yourself. That's the law of all spiritual progress.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Spiritual, Law, Progress

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