Aesop Quotes

If the ship is sinking, you need help getting off that ship.

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.

I think places that need the rubber duck the most are the ones in distress.

He means … to keep his hand under our chin to prevent us from drowning, but not to lift our heads out of the water.

Let me put it this way, if you were drowning, you wouldn't really be in a place to lend a hand as far as being rescued. You'd be at the mercy of the lifeguard. Once pulled out, you may be a little out of it, not sure where you are, but safe nonetheless.

I sense that his drowning but I don't have any idea of how to start to put my hand into the water and save him.

I see a few hands stretching out to me at the edge of the net, so I grabbed the first one I could reach and pull myself across. I roll off, and would have fallen face-first onto a wood floor if he had not caught me. "He" is the young man attached to the hand I grabbed. He has a spare upper lip and a full lower lip. His eyes are so deep-set that his eyelashes touch the skin under his eyebrows, and they are dark blue, a dreaming, sleeping, waiting color.

Whoever is in the distress can call me. I will come running wherever they are.

I had a wonderful contact, especially with Uncle Bert who was an angel and led the whole group over to my side of a steep ravine I could not cross to get over to them.

Canada has always been there to help people who need it.

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

I am currently in Haiti to help the Haitian people in their reconstruction.

I have a huge heart for Haiti and will tell the world how we can help!

They need help, and we have helped, and we are here to help. And we are helping, and we're going to continue to help.

I once saved someone from drowning.

We are giving assurance to the American families that help is on its way.

They were very considerate, I must say. Every time I felt I was about to slip out of these fingers and would yell for help, they'd let me down and re-organize things.

Our message must be that we want to help and that we will leave once the problems have been solved.

I need your help. I am injured, near death, and too weak to hike out of here. I am all alone. This is no joke. In the name of God, please remain to save me. I am out collecting berries close by and shall return this evening. Thank you, Chris McCandless.

If you are somebody who has a disease, you are not complaining when someone starts to do work for you. That is your hope.

Fast offerings are used for one purpose only: to bless the lives of those in need.

Bureaucracy and red tape should not delay our efforts to bring help to those in need.

Children International is bringing a lot of hope to families who start out with nothing. They have nothing. Then Children International comes in, puts them in school, gets them what they need.

A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho labour under incurable maladies; and to the youth of either sex, who are capable of beginning the world with advantage, but have not the means.

But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.