I'm Only Trying To Help Quotes

#1. I don't know why my lines that were cut from the film didn't make it onto the DVD. I have offered to go into the editing room with Christopher and work shoulder to shoulder with him to fit all my lines in. I think he thinks I'm kidding. I'm only trying to help.

Fred Willard

#2. Investing in women, helping women to achieve their dreams, sending young girls to college. Trying to train young girls to be leaders. Sponsoring the Minerva Awards. All of these programs didn't exist before that help women day in and day out.

Maria Shriver

#3. Achieving the good life is more a matter of being than of doing or giving. It calls for intense self-scrutiny, a relentless honesty about one's motives, and a persistent feeling that we are no better - and perhaps worse - than those we are trying to help.

Sydney J. Harris

#4. You know, I've been almost kidnapped and killed more times in the last thirty-six hours than anyone in history, and yet here I am trying to help you work through your personal issues and that Claire ... that is why I always get the last cookie,

S.L.J. Shortt

#5. I never yet have heard of a good man having fallen when he was trying to do Christ's will and trusting on Christ's help. Every fall without one exception came from venturing upon sinful ground or from venturing upon self-support.

Theodore L. Cuyler

#6. I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start.

John Lee Hooker

#7. I thank God every day. That's all I can do. That, and try to help all those other guys who are trying to do what I did.

Tyson Beckford

#8. Be free; hope for nothing from anyone. I am sure if you look back upon your lives you will find that you were always vainly trying to get help from others which never came.

Swami Vivekananda

#9. Sometimes I try to meditate, which I hope will help, but it doesn't really. But lots of times my dreams have the seed of an intriguing story.

Nick Antosca

#10. There was so much pressure by myself and everyone else and I can't handle this by myself. It's not good for me so I made the decision never go to a ski coach for mental help. I said last season I will try a mental coach and see how it works.

Michaela Dorfmeister

#11. I tend to listen to my friends and family empathetically, and I try to help work through their problems from the inside. I try to adopt their thinking.

Tom Barbash

#12. My agenda is trying to help people live a better life.

Jillian Michaels

#13. Given a blank we can't help trying to fill it in along lines of customary seeing or saying. But the best poetic lines undermine those habits, break the pre- off the -dictable, unsettle the suburbs of your routine sentiments, and rattle the tracks of your trains of thoughts.

Heather McHugh

#14. To make your goals savvy, keep them both personal (meaningful to you and aligned with your values) and positive (so you feel good about what you're trying to accomplish.

Beverly K. Bachel

#15. It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives; they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.

Frank Kermode

#16. The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#17. I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.

Boris Spassky

#18. I kept trying to talk myself out of my second thoughts when they were trying to help me. My advice? When it comes to relationships, second thoughts should be promoted.

Deb Caletti

#19. ...I'm trying to tell ya something bout my life,,maybe give me insight between black and white,,and the best thing you'd ever done for me is to help me take my life less seriously--it's only LIFE afterall...

Indigo Girls

#20. Well, why not just snap my damn olive branch and beat me with it? I was only trying to help.

Carrie Butler

#21. It's like ... I can throw away my whole life trying to help somebody else, but i can only do something for me if I know it doesn't matter.

Dan Wells

#22. At least it was instant. At least there wasn't any pain.
I knew he was only trying to help, but he didn't get it.
There was pain. A dul endless pain in my gut that wouldn't go away even when I knelt on the stingingly frozen tile of the bathroom, dry-heaving.

John Green

#23. When people say (nice) things you take them as compliments and it's nice, but it won't help you win your next game. The thing I am trying to keep in mind is that relying on my past performance will not make me win my next game, it'll only get in my way.

Greg Maddux

#24. In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: Help me!

Victor Hugo

#25. Cass, I know you're only trying to help but I will stab you in your face.

S.L.J. Shortt

#26. I no longer pursue happiness, for it alludes me in every occasion. It is as if I'm trying to find something that is invisible, and sometimes I can't help to wonder if I'm the only one who it is oblivious to

Dave Guerrero

#27. The children had been using these spatulas as oars, but rowing a boat is very hard work, particularly if one's traveling companions are too busy bragging to help out, and Violet was trying to think of a way they might move the boat faster.

Lemony Snicket

#28. When you see something bad happening out in the world, you should try to help in whatever way you can.

Taylor Swift

#29. I can afford to take a risk in my life. Only the insecure cannot afford to risk failure. The secure can be honest about themselves. They can admit failure. They are able to seek help and try again. They can change

John C. Maxwell

#30. Why in the hell is she still taking off my clothes? Oh, my God! Maggie wants to rape me! I slap at her hand and she grips my wrist. "Sydney!" She laughs. "You're covered in puke. I'm trying to help you.

Colleen Hoover

#31. Don't try to help people to 'not die', help them to enjoy life!

Bernie Siegel

#32. If you want to do something, try it! The worst anyone you ask for help can do is say no.

Anne Beatts

#33. I'm just trying to help"
"Do your uncle's bonsai eat meat?"
"I don't think so"
"Have you ever been bitten by one of his bonsai?"
"No."
"In that case, your uncle's bonsai are not helping us

Yann Martel

#34. I think I'm a better collaborator, in seeing the bigger picture and trying to just help that, and not be so self-centered in whatever my task is, which is being an actor.

Ray McKinnon

#35. The Internet browser is the most susceptible to viruses. The browser is naive about downloading and executing software. Google is trying to help by releasing the Chrome browser as open source.

Vint Cerf

#36. We all have our ways of handling fear and managing trying; jumping in or climbing down, a direct approach or a delay, joyful or miserable, a spirit of adventure, or God help me, get this thing over with.

Kristin Armstrong

#37. I want to seem put together in front of a person who earns a living trying to help me get all the pieces back together.

Hannah Brencher

#38. What we should be trying to do is to encourage people to establish private retirement accounts and help them take pressure off the Social Security system.

Dennis Moore

#39. I'm not trying to be philosophical, but I really think it's my job to help children. And I don't care if people laugh.

Michael Jackson

#40. WKRP [showed] something happening between people-there was something underneath about people trying to help each other out.

Howard Hesseman

#41. His English was exceptional. There was a glottal sound in his voice, but it was not harsh. I'd often asked him to help me with my sparse Arabic, trying to get my pronunciation of this or that word right. "Shukran." "Afwan." "Qumbula." Thank you. You're welcome. Bomb.

Kevin Powers

#42. All this grievin' is hard. We can't cheer for that man you trying to help but don't want to have to grieve for him, too. There shouldn't be no more killing behind this.

Bryan Stevenson

#43. In Hollywood, we're always looking for the next big thing that will help us feel fulfilled. As actors, we're always trying to be someone else. Things like therapy help us learn how to be ourselves. Sometimes.

Jen Calonita

#44. We are simply committing ourselves to paying attention to our life. We use meditation to help us in that attention process. We are not trying to become good meditators. We are trying to wake up.

William Martin

#45. By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world ... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we?

Rick Danko

#46. When you try to help people become a better person, you're going to have to find out what's really going in their world.

Ray Lewis

#47. I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-stripes.

Gillian Jacobs

#48. I try to photograph things that are near to me because I work best among things I know. I'm not concerned with startling anyone or discovering new forms; formal qualities are only tools to help state my message.

Roy DeCarava

#49. If opposites attract why is the church trying so hard to mirror the world?

Lakesha Ruise

#50. This is the tragedy of modernity: as with neurotically overprotective parents, those trying to help are often hurting us the most.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#51. You must ask for God's help. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#52. I'm interested in finding sounds and ideas that help bring the audience into the world that we [moviemakes] are all trying to create. Sometimes that's with synthesizers, and sometimes that's with French horns. I love using all of them, depending on the scenario.

Joseph Trapanese