Quotes About Trying To Help

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Howard Hesseman

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#9. Too many people are going for self and not trying to help their communities.

Kevin Powell

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

John Lee Hooker

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

Jillian Michaels

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. I've worked with some of the great cinematographers. So I'm always watching what they do and I'm watching how the director composes his shots, just because I find it interesting as an actor; you're trying to help them out as well.

Eric Bana

#17. Anybody who gives away money is mostly looking at things where they think they can make a difference. I'm trying to help people who helped me, educational institutions that helped me with scholarships, or organizations that were very useful to me in growing up.

David Rubenstein

#18. If you want to do something that really changes someone's life, the best thing you can do is make the person you're trying to help a participant in the process.

John Stahl-Wert

#19. I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them.

Liam Neeson

#20. People tend to have one of three 'styles' of interaction. There are takers, who are always trying to serve themselves; matchers, who are always trying to get equal benefit for themselves and others; and givers, who are always trying to help people.

Adam Grant

#21. It's a morality film, and it poses the question 'What would you do?' I took it very seriously, just as the director did in terms of atmosphere and lighting, and I was just trying to help that vision along.

Kevin Williamson

#22. Because people understand that the diocese is trying to help the members of that group feel more connected to their church, the church they belong to by virtue of their baptism.

James Martin

#23. I'm an ambassador for Best Friends [Animal Society], an incredible organization that's devoted to the welfare of animals - in particular, trying to help make every animal shelter a no-kill shelter. My two dogs were rescues, and I'm a firm believer in finding every dog or cat a home.

Patrick Fabian

#24. It is very different trying to help a community organization than trying to sell yourself or sell a product.

John W. Rogers Jr.

#25. We need a plague. It's gotta happen. And don't worry, it's only gonna kill the weak. Seriously. Put on a sweater, take some vitamins, you're gonna be fine! We gotta let mother nature do her
thing, man. She keeps trying to help us out and we won't let her do it.

Bill Burr

#26. I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

Richard Lewis

#27. You know, there's a real irony in U.S. assistance programs. First of all, I think it's misnamed. We're not so much trying to help people as we're trying to help ourselves. So let's be clear about this. So these are - in my view, they're cold calculations of national security and not aid programs.

Richard Armitage

#28. Any work that's worth doing has its challenges as well as its opportunities. That's true if you're running a business, it's true if you're trying to help on a campaign.

Carly Fiorina

#29. I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here.

Donald Berwick

#30. Right now I'm trying to help my sister with her school situation, 'cause she's real smart. Besides me, my other brother's a lawyer ... my parents stressed education a lot.

Wyclef Jean

#31. I have quite a strong sense of wanting to sort of, wanting to help others. I'm not claiming I'm a saint, but I have a genuine, genuine belief in trying to help others.

John Key

#32. I didn't get into teaching and coaching for the number of wins or the money. It was a passion for trying to help young people

Bo Ryan

#33. The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what's going to happen. And as a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who are trying to help you find what you need and what you want.

Roman Coppola

#34. 'Through the times I've gone through the last couple of weeks - and I'm still trying to help a friend - I got attacked pretty hard through the media, and it hurt and it was devastating, but I really found out who was with me and who was there for me.

Michael Irvin

#35. I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.

Jeff Koons

#36. I'm not trying to rescue you, but I am trying to help you succeed. There's a difference.

Jodi Meadows

#37. During childhood, it's about trying to help develop who your kid's going to be. During adolescence, it's about responding to who your kid wants to be.

Jennifer Senior

#38. What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

Benjamin Spock

#39. The man who labors to please his neighbor for his good to edification has the mind that was in Christ. It is a sinner trying to help a sinner. Even a feeble, but kind and tender man, will effect more than a genius, who is rough and artificial.

Richard Cecil

#40. And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene.

John Breaux

#41. No, Paige. I am trying to help you."
"Go to hell."
"I already exist on a level of hell."
"Exist on one that isn't near mine.

Samantha Shannon

#42. It's kind of hard to spend long hours trying to help people and then find out that the favorite game of the columnist is to sit back and second guess you and try to find something that you did wrong.

Bill Scott

#43. When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want to forget ... So I realize, that if it's hard for me, how much harder it must be for you.

Katherine Paterson

#44. I'm starting the Juicy J Scholarship Foundation. I'm going to start doing a lot of different things trying to help out and give back.

Juicy J

#45. I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.

Allan Sloan

#46. The Gamifaction Movement is trying to help companies engage their audience and community by using game mechanics and wrapping them around shopping or achievements, so you get achievements for coming to a store or purchasing things, like rewarding activities.

Jane McGonigal

#47. I was trying to help you, so I was beating wrong.

Eugene Ormandy

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

Carrie Butler

#49. You do believe I didn't do it, right?" For all I knew, he did think I was guilty and was just trying to help anyways. It wouldn't have been out of character.
"I believe my sweet daughter is capable of murder," he said at last. "But not this one.

Richelle Mead

#50. Restfully reassured by his new friends, Joseph now nominated God in a new light, 'Man is God hesitant and God is Man hesitantly trying to help.

Christopher Nolan

#51. 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

#52. 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

#53. But very often in politics we have the experience called up from my father when someone was trying to help him in the campaign: I can take care of my enemies, may the Good Lord save me from my friends.

Robert Foster Bennett

#54. Grownups can be such fakes, I thought. They are always acting like they are trying to help you, and like they want to take care of you, but really they just want something from you.

Ava Dellaira

#55. Generally, I have a strong interest in trying to help people who are maybe not as lucky as I am. I've been well rewarded in this world. I'm more worried about the next one.

William E. Conway Jr.

#56. We have been helping, trying to help Afghanistan in many ways, even from the beginning of ... the beginnings of the '20s, 1920s, when he we were fighting our own national struggle.

Bulent Ecevit

#57. I think every time you take on a new role, you're trying to help find that voice and you add your own bits and pieces along the way but with Noah [Baumbach] it's already done.

Naomi Watts

#58. I was in a strip club trying to help a ghost get laid which was challenging, but not impossible.

A.J. Locke

#59. 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

#60. By simply going outside of your shell and trying to help others, it would be easy for you to experience utmost joy.

Erick Bulatowicz

#61. Don't call me an icon. I'm just a mother trying to help.

Princess Diana

#62. You're welcome. I was just trying to help.' Thomas felt like kicking him in the face.

James Dashner

#63. Ever since I've been blessed with success, I've struggled a little with anonymity and even family. I've had people calling asking for money, and I have to ask them first, 'Are you working? Have you been trying to help yourself?' Then I feel like I can help.

Tyler Perry

#64. They are so busy, Julia, trying to help the world that they've forgotten how to help themselves. They've forgotten how to be happy, and it is a happy man or woman who helps the world most.

Christopher Pike

#65. Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.

Tony Snow

#66. Some intentionally injure others through mocking, sarcasm with no intent to help. Others are trying to help.

Sterling W. Sill

#67. In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and libraries. At that time, books by men mystery writers were reviewed seven times as often as books by women.

Sara Paretsky

#68. I'm on the third line. I'm a crasher. I know my role. I'm just trying to help. I'm not stupid enough to think I'm great out there.

Darcy Tucker

#69. There's always someone who is trying to help.

Fred Rogers

#70. I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they choose, they'll need to really pay attention to it.

Gerry Cooney

#71. I'm trying to help you."
"I don't know what you're doing, but I'm sure there are laws about it!

G.A. Aiken

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

S.L.J. Shortt

#73. Were only trying to help, but you need to punish them. In a strange way, it will make them feel better. That's the way of society, you make a mistake, make restitution, learn from it, and move on. If there's no restitution, there's no learning. No consequences equals spoiled brats.

Katie Graykowski

#74. I am a Cuban mother, and you do not let your cubs get into trouble without you trying to help them all the way.

Cristina Saralegui

#75. There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.

Andrew Carnegie

#76. Sometimes, we pay a higher price for trying to help someone fit into their skin than we do trying to fit into ours.

Srividya Srinivasan

#77. I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.

Jim Harrison

#78. Now that our troops are mired in a dangerous effort to defeat the insurgency and are also trying to help rebuild the country, Americans of all political persuasions simply want the United States to succeed and our troops to be as safe as possible.

Harry Reid

#79. NIKKI: Yep! I'm trying to help her earn a cooking badge for Scouts. Any ideas for a super-EZ brat-proof snack? BRANDON:

Rachel Renee Russell

#80. For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.

Iris Dement

#81. We're talking about people who've already got 3-4, if not 5-6 years' experience or more, and it's about trying to help professionals develop, using us as a resource for that development.

Siobhan Davies

#82. I don't know how we can fix a world where people have been so convinced that they are doing the right thing out of compassion and love and trying to help people, when it is absolute poison, when it is absolutely destructive.

Matt Dillahunty

#83. Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

Princess Diana

#84. The horse saved my life, so that's kind of why I'll spend the rest of mine trying to help them.

Buck Brannaman

#85. Did you ever dream you'd a friend, Alec? Nothing else but just "my friend", he trying to help you and you him. A friend,' he repeated, sentimental suddenly. 'Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep.' But

E. M. Forster

#86. trying to help her out of

Virginia Vaughan

#87. Noble!" "What?" He was annoyed at her interruption. Didn't she understand that he was trying to help her organize her life into something satisfactory? "I am not the one chained naked to my mistress's bed with a broken man part.

Katie MacAlister

#88. A marital therapist recently teased me, "Are you writing another book to help women speak up? I'm trying to help my clients be quiet." Then she said more seriously, "Why do people think they have to tell each other everything they feel?

Harriet Lerner

#89. I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.

Arthur Ashe

#90. Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.

Charles Kuralt

#91. I actually had a dream that one of my friends became president, and I was trying to help out with the campaign. It was pretty good.

Chris Massoglia

#92. Unless someone is trying to help you, don't you dare, ever let anyone tell you who and what you are, because, on this planet, you are the unquestionable and supreme authority on - you.

Bryant McGill

#93. Ty straddled his lap backward and lowered himself; Zane flexed his hips, guiding him down, trying to help. Ty

Abigail Roux

#94. Now that I feel 100 percent, I'm looking forward to playing my game the way I want to-getting on base, stealing bases and trying to help the team any way I can.

Carlos Beltran

#95. 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

#96. People trying to help you when you're past help are raw and helpless. Nobody wins: you get nothing; they feel worse.

John Darnielle

#97. People will be much more likely to help you if they can see you're trying to help yourself.

Matt Wynne

#98. Thought is like a bubble rising to the surface. When thought is joined to will, we call it power. That which strikes the sick person whom you are trying to help is not thought, but power.

Swami Vivekananda

#99. You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.

Charles Olson

#100. People help themselves by trying to help others, and this is the process that helps alcoholics get sober and stay that way. Love and tolerance of others, as stated on page 84 of the text of Alcoholics Anonymous, is the "code" of living that is suggested to AA members.

Mel B.