Aid Quotes

• The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The moon, their mistress, had expir'd before; The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need Of aid from them-She was the Universe.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Universe
  • Dead
  • Grave

• To the worker, God himself lends aid.

  

  Euripides
  • God
  • Aid
  • Worker

• Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Aid

• A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religious
  • Aid
  • Performed

• Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Support
  • Aid
  • Foreign Aid

• Undoubtedly, our path is not of the easiest; but, just as undoubtedly, we are not to be frightened by difficulties. Paraphrasing from the well-known words of Luther, Russia might say: ‘Here I stand on the frontier between the old, capitalist world and the new, socialist world. Here on this frontier I unite the efforts of the proletarians of the West and of the peasantry of the East in order to shatter the old world. May the god of history be my aid!

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • History
  • Russia
  • Socialist

• Pakistan is riddled with problems that are rooted in the disproportionate power of the state. Aid has only boosted that power.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Power
  • Problems
  • Aid

• There are a lot of African-Americans in that region of the country. We pay particular attention to these communities because historically aid doesn't get into those communities right away.

  

  John Whiting
  • Attention
  • Pay
  • Particular

• When foreign aid is disbursed based on where there is terrorism, starvation, or disease, it ends up subsidizing terrorism, starvation, and disease.

  

  Adam Kokesh
  • Aid
  • Based
  • Subsidizing

• Live Aid did feel like one hour's rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Live
  • Hours
  • Rehearsal

• The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Disease
  • Aid
  • Clever Woman

• If you liked El Salvador, you're going to love Colombia. It's the same death squads, the same military aid, and the same whitewash from Washington.

  

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari
  • Death
  • Military
  • Aid

• Of course it is very nice that she wants to help. But given that it does correspond to the law on aid during an election period, there is a question that must be checked as to whether this is the period.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • She
  • Help
  • Law

• Government...may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against another... The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality.

  

  Abe Fortas
  • May
  • Religious
  • Religion

• Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Bible
  • Both

• It is as natural and reasonable for a dependent creature to apply to its Creator for what it needs, as for a child thus to solicit the aid of a parent who is believed to have the disposition and ability to bestow what it needs.

  

  Archibald Alexander
  • Parent
  • Creator
  • Aid

• Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Aid
  • Zimbabwe
  • Mugabe government

• Men, forever tempted to lift the veil of the future-with the aid of computers or horoscopes or the intestines of sacrificial animals-have a worse record to show in these sciences than in almost any scientific endeavor.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Science
  • Record
  • Sciences

• Aragorn threw back his cloak. The elven-sheath glittered as he grasped it, and the bright blade of Andúril shone like a sudden flame as he swept it out. 'Elendil!' he cried. 'I am Aragorn, son of Arathorn, and am called Elessar, the Elfstone, Dúnadan, the heir of Isildur Elendil's son of Gondor. Here is the Sword that was Broken and is forged again! Will you aid me or thwart me? Choose swiftly!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Son
  • Broken
  • Flame

• I am here to give the American people some straight talk about higher education. Some have said we might have cut financial aid for college students. The truth is we have expanded access to college for our neediest students through the record growth of the Pell grant program.

  

  Ric Keller
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• The Federal Reserve has always recognized the importance of allowing markets to work, and government oversight of financial firms will never be fully effective without the aid of strong market discipline.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Work
  • Strong
  • Financial

• We have learned by now, or should have, that the best-intended designers of aid programs can make ghastly mistakes in their sophisticated plans.

  

  Anthony Lewis
  • Programs
  • Designers
  • Ghastly

• They will play a part, but it's unlikely they will provide everything we need; they need more support, more aid in deployment.

  

  Charles Curtis
  • Support
  • Play
  • Deployment

• We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society. We are still called upon to give aid to the beggar who finds himself in misery and agony on life's highway. But one day, we must ask the question of whether an edifice which produces beggars must not be restructured and refurbished.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Society
  • Questions
  • Agony

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