Top 100 Not Help Quotes
#1. At a time of recession, when there is a mounting glut of labour and uninvested savings, a reduction in wages and interest rates does not help. In fact, it deepens the recession.
Yanis Varoufakis
#2. She could not help but feel that paying money to take ownership of a living organism was inappropriate.
Haruki Murakami
#3. Harry looked at Bellman. He could not help but admire him. The way you admire a cockroach you flush down the toilet and it comes creeping back again and again and in the end it inherits the world.
Jo Nesbo
#4. Mariam knew that life for the most part had been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it.
Khaled Hosseini
#6. He talked to her as people commonly do talk in society - all sorts of nonsense, but nonsense to which he could not help attaching a special meaning in her case.
Leo Tolstoy
#7. She could not help knowing it, the torch of her beauty; she carried it erect into any room that she entered; and after all, veil it as she might, and shrink from the monotony of bearing that it imposed on her, her beauty was apparent.
Virginia Woolf
#8. Socrates made the same remark to one who complained; he said: Why do you wonder that globe-trotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason which set you wandering is ever at your heels.
Seneca.
#9. Forcing women in or near land combat will hurt recruiting, not help.
Phyllis Schlafly
#10. She wanted to surprise everyone by her dash and originality, but she could not help modeling herself on the last person she met, and the confusion of ideals thus produced caused her much perturbation when she had to choose between two courses.
Edith Wharton
#11. They were frightening enough, but Tessa could not help but feel that if Will were there, he would have commented that they looked like turnips, and perhaps made up a song about it.
Cassandra Clare
#12. The machine does not teach playing flexibility, does not help in taking account of human facxtors in the battle, and on whole, strictly speaking, it restricts the possibilities for young players.
Sergei Shipov
#13. If you do not help a man with his troubles, it is equivalent to bringing troubles to him.
Nachman Of Breslov
#14. It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him
H.L. Mencken
#15. Expert tutors often do not help very much. They hang back letting the student manage as much as possible. And when things go awry, rather than help directly they raise questions: 'Could you explain this step again? How did you ... ?
Mark Lepper
#16. She so cheerfully resigned to his neglecting her that he could not help opening his mouth to protest
Susanna Clarke
#17. As a scientist, I can not help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired.
The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to do with such a God.
Luther Burbank
#18. While the realm of no materiality was a precious fruit of meditation, it did not help resolve the fundamental problem of birth and death, nor did it liberate one from all suffering and anxiety. It did not lead to total liberation.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#19. Also, I gained lots of weight between ages 18-20 because I was drinking alcohol at night. Alcohol has lots of calories and that does not help.
Oksana Baiul
#20. Sam could not help but be pleased. "So. Astrid needs me." Brianna rolled her eyes. "Yeah, Sam, you're still necessary. You're like a god to us mere mortals. We can't live without you. Later we're going to build you a temple. Satisfied?
Michael Grant
#21. Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
Sophocles
#22. People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor because the financial institution in the country did not help them widen their economic base.
Muhammad Yunus
#23. But while the urban tribe helps us survive, it does not help us thrive. The urban tribe may bring us soup when we are sick, but it is the people we hardly know - those who never make it into our tribe - who will swiftly and dramatically change our lives for the better.
Meg Jay
#24. When God shook Israel awake from her violent slumber, He said, "Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy" (Ezekiel 16:49, emphasis added).
Jen Hatmaker
#26. [U]sing religion to treat depression often makes the problem worse. It's like treating the disease with more of the disease. It is effective in getting people to give time and money to the church, but it does not help the victim.
Darrel Ray
#27. New Testament Christians did not witness because they had to but because they could not help it.
Richard Halverson
#28. We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
Pope Benedict XVI
#29. Release blame. It does not help you to go over and over what you think you should have done or said. Stop blaming other people too. You don't need to make yourself or other people "wrong" in order to deal with your life in the moment.
Sheri Kaye Hoff
#30. Like most men, Wick could not help terror about one thing erupting as anger about something else.
Jeff VanderMeer
#31. For if the Germans do not help defend the West, American and Canadian troops must cross the seas to do the job, and I venture to believe that the troops - if not the statesmen - regard this as an interference at least in their own domestic affairs.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
#32. Caring about beauty, it is necessary to start with the heart and soul, otherwise no makeup will not help.
Coco Chanel
#33. Hatred does not help us alleviate our pain even in the slightest.
Sharon Salzberg
#34. Life is too short to be wasted on anything that does not help you to live out God's plan and purposes for your life.
Elizabeth George
#35. Get off the negative treadmill It does not help you in any way It keeps your mind mired in the past and leads your heart astray
Donna T. Cavanagh
#36. If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help.
Randall Jarrell
#37. I said, 'I don't like the way you look.'
Quincy stopped his work. He said, 'Are you talking to me, runt?'
I said, 'Yes, and I will say it again. I don't like the way you look and I don't like the way you are cutting up that turkey. I hope you go to jail. My lawyer will not help you.
Charles Portis
#38. There was always a grandeur and a nobility in my megalomania. And also something cheap and loathsome that I could not help.
Pat Conroy
#39. Two hurt people can not help each other. They can not.
Mary J. Blige
#40. I believe a Christian can sin, but he does not have to. God never would have told us to reject evil acts if in point of fact we could not help but do them.
Billy Graham
#41. I know no words of prayer - God help me because I can not help myself.
Harold E. Hughes
#43. The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it's likely to harm them.
Noam Chomsky
#44. I could not help but notice that in this regard the book, inanimate though it was, cared more for my welfare than any human in the castle.
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
#45. Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.
Mahatma Gandhi
#46. Floyd made it a rule never to worry about events over which he could have absolutely no control; any external threat would reveal itself in due time and must be dealt with then. But he could not help wondering if they had done
Arthur C. Clarke
#47. One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.
Jose Marti
#48. Ethics and morals do, in reality, have a place in law - although not in jurisprudence. It is morals that help us make the laws, but morals do not help us apply them.
Hanya Yanagihara
#49. Palm Key he got itt," and some other snatches, mostly single words and unintelligible. I could not help wondering who it was that had "got itt," and what "itt" was
Robert Louis Stevenson
#50. There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.
Andrew Carnegie
#51. Sara saw that privately she could not help hoping very much that they would all be black, and would wear turbans,
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#52. Anything and anyone that does not help you to become the best version of yourself is too small for you.
Matthew Kelly
#53. This book bore the label R>3214 VIII/2. And this painful truth was suddenly borne in upon the mind of Monsieur Sariette: to wit, that the most scientific system of numbering will not help to find a book if the book is no longer in its place.
Anatole France
#54. All of your sarcastic - "
"Multilayered."
" - answers will not help your cause. You're very flippant about these proceedings.
Kresley Cole
#55. Before we get any further, I want you to understand that this book will not help you quit smoking or control a gambling addiction. Mini habits are for good habits only - adding positive behaviors to your life
Stephen Guise
#56. Although enlightened people know that an extreme phobia wasn't a form of madness, hey could not help but regard it as odd.
Dean Koontz
#57. Time is no friend, it has turned its back and will not help, will not move anything, will not slow things down that are moving. ....... Where it has given hours, days, years, it will not yield moments. Where it has given moments so freely and with abundances, it now gives eternity.
Albert French
#59. From my observations, it would seem that the core message of most major religions is right, just and pure. For this reason I can not help but conclude that evil acts committed by religious people are committed not because of their religion, but in spite of it.
Derek R. Audette
#61. Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint.
Frank Capra
#62. If you're overwhelmed, lost, or like you life is out of control, do whatever you can that matters to someone else or ever did to you ... it might not help, but it certainly won't hurt.
Ingrid Weir
#63. Simply setting targets to bring more "women into management" does not help leaders learn how to manage across genders; rather, it usually builds a solid wall of resistance among the male majority within a company.
Avivah Wittenberg-Cox
#64. Why not help one another on the way..makes it much easier
Bob Marley
#65. Be kind to yourself, dear - to our innocent follies.
Forget any sounds or touch you knew that did not help you dance.
You will come to see that all evolves us.
Rumi
#66. Studying the young woman's long thin legs, Tessa wondered how different her life would have been if she had had legs like that. She could not help but suspect that it would have been almost entirely different.
J.K. Rowling
#67. When you take the sires of the cage apart, you do not hurt the bird, but you help it. You let it out of its prison. How do you you know that death does not help me when it takes the wires of my cage down?-that it does not release me, and put me into some better place and better condition of life?
Randolph Sinks Foster
#68. Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of the death that comes to those who cannot let go of the past
Kurt Vonnegut
#69. Our freedom must be had at all hazards. If the men of property will not help us they must fall; we will free ourselves by the aid of that large and respectable class of the community - the men of no property.
Wolfe Tone
#70. No one ever loses anyone. We are al one soul that needs to continue growing and developing in order for the world to carry on and for us all to meet once again. Sadness really does not help.
Paulo Coelho
#71. A Chinese tale tells of some men sent to harm a young girl who, upon seeing her beauty, become her protectors rather than her violators. That's how I felt seeing the Earth for the first time. I could not help but love and cherish her.
Taylor Wang
#72. You must learn to say "No!" to those things that cannot and will not help you live the life you want.
Auliq Ice
#73. These are the seductive voices of the night; the Sirens, too, sang that way. It would be doing them an injustice to think that they wanted to seduce; they knew they had claws and sterile wombs, and they lamented this aloud. They could not help it if their laments sounded so beautiful.
Franz Kafka
#74. Every act I live while I am fully awake can not help but be both prayer and lovemaking.
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
#75. Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.
Ayn Rand
#76. Why didn't you tell me there was danger? Why didn't you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance of discovering in that way; and you did not help me!
Thomas Hardy
#77. My religion makes no sense
and does not help me
therefore I pursue it.
Anne Carson
#78. I could not help but think that somewhere along the way we had missed what was radical about our faith and replaced it with what is comfortable.
David Platt
#79. Many Chinese companies are run like military camps with military discipline. We do not run a company that way. It does not help the creative process.
Zhang Xin
#81. Salman Khan did not help me get movie offers. What rubbish! Will any producer take a risk of millions of rupees at the instance of any person? Everyone knows that the film industry is highly competitive, and one gets a job on one's talent only and not on any recommendation.
Katrina Kaif
#82. My position was a common one; I wanted to do the right thing but could not help regretting the damnable expense.
Robertson Davies
#83. Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.
Dejan Stojanovic
#84. Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs.
Oliver Kahn
#85. There was something so infantile in the man's fright that Jahan could not help but chuckle. Children, only they, stared up with sparkling eyes, pointing at the white beast.
Elif Shafak
#86. There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.
Andrew Carnegie
#87. You could not help but feel your specklike existence among the immensity of the mountain, the earth, the universe, and yet still feel your own two feet on the talus, reaffirming your presence amid the grandeur.
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Paul Kalanithi
#88. Jesus did not help just the sick who could afford to pay for it.
John F. Kerry
#89. I could not help but think how fortunate we are when we have real friends, people we can count on and turn to and who are always glad to see us when we are lonely.
Mindy Warshaw Skolsky
#90. Though day, the crickets called in the grass; my mother's singing rose from the camp. I lifted my arms; I could not help it. The breeze itself was warm; the islands soft with moss; the loons calling melancholy in forgotten bays; and Life in all its operations seemed unspeakably generous.
M T Anderson
#91. He knew now the one thing of importance; and that one thing was at first there, in the drawing room, and then began moving across and came to a standstill at the door. Without turning round he felt the eyes fixed on him, and the smile, and he could not help turning round.
Leo Tolstoy
#92. What must it be like to have such faith in the world, in plans, in your own ability to control your fate? It was contagious, that's what it was. I could not help it. I caught his hope like a plague.
Amy Lane
#93. Do I believe in helping people? he wondered. He might help people, he might not help them, he did not know beforehand, anything was possible. He did not seem to have a belief, or did not seem to have a belief regarding help. Perhaps I am the stony ground, he thought.
J.M. Coetzee
#94. As angry as he was, his father could not help but laugh. 'You're not my son,' he told Bran when they fetched him down, 'you're a squirrel. So be it. If you must climb, then climb, but try not to let your mother see you.
George R R Martin
#95. I saw that a tender feeling was blossoming in her heart, like a rose in spring and I could not help recalling Petrarch's saying, "Innocence is often but a hair's breadth from ruin.
M.E. Kerr
#96. Simon had the child's belief that the rest of the world exists as staging for their personal drama; destiny hung over him, casting clues and signs in his path, and he could not help feeling that ha had been vouchsafed a sign, a celestial wink.
J.K. Rowling
#97. Running would help with the weight, but the weight did not help with running.
Alexandra Heminsley
#98. I was born with the devil in me. I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing..I was born with the evil one standing as my sponsor beside the bed where I was ushered into the world, and he has been with me since.
H. H. Holmes
#99. Staying in the past does not help, my friend. Everything passes you by while you're trying to relive that one little slice of golden apple that you had.
Ken Dereste Dorcely
#100. If you believe that you have the right to force me - use your guns openly. I will not help you to disguise the nature of your action.
Ayn Rand
