Quotes About Support

I think that everybody needs somebody to really look up to and know that even though you're going through a tough time, you'll get over it.

I will take a pie in the face any time for a worthy cause.

Everyone is in need of encouragement at some time. Take the opportunity today to encourage (give courage to) the one who often encourages you.

If one is married for a long time, and one does have a family . . . It is like an energy, a wonderful fire that never goes out underneath you, to help you go out into the world and do your damnedest.

But it'd be nice to have someone who cared about me, someone I could talk to about anything, someone who'd tell me I was really special.

Ah, jeez... She really is a cheerleader.' And it seemed suddenly that this was true- not because she was an airhead or a hottie or a nonjock, but because she could throw herself so wholeheartedly into someone else's cause, because she could care so much and try so hard from the sidelines.

Oh, Myr, he chokes out. I hate having to ask this of you... He glances towards the car again, and I crouch down in the shadows, hoping it's too dark for him to see whether the window is open or closed. The woman pats his arm, cradling her hand against his elbow. You know I'd do anything for you and Hil, she says. I like her voice. It's throaty and rich. You'd do anything? my father repeats numbly. Even now? After -? Even now, the woman says firmly.

Being poor isn't the only way to be in need.

bouncing along with Finn's every step. . . . Chess realized that just looking at Emma and Finn had comforted him. It was like they were coins, too.

It seems to me that being a great friend is more important than being a great hero or a great warrior. Being a good friend is the most important thing there is. Just think, if everyone in the world were great friends, then we wouldn't be such terrible enemies.

reach out your hand, and it will touch the hand of someone reaching out to you, and—together—you will find the strength and hope you need to go on.

He wanted to pay her; he thought women ought to be paid for keeping men from dying or going out of their minds.

I want to write. I've already told my mother: That's what I want to do-write. No answer the first time. Then she asks, Write what? I say, Books, novels. [...] She's against it, it's not worthy, it's not real work, it's nonsense. Later she said, A childish idea.

Friendship affords total certitude above all and that is what distinguishes it from love. It means respect as well and total acceptance of another being.

Nada nos acerca tanto a otros seres como el tener miedo juntos.

there is always a day when Atlas ceases to support the weight of the heavens, and his revolt shakes the earth.

aceptó un largo ensayo mío para la revista Les Lettres françaises que él dirigía en Buenos Aires con el apoyo de aquella admirable protectora de las letras que se llamó Victoria Ocampo.

L'amitié est avant tout certitude, c'est ce qui la distingue de l'amour.

You're the only one here with your own fan club

He] was very ill-used by the Government about a place that was promised him and never given, after his supporting them against his conscience very honourably, and being greatly abused for it, which hurt him greatly, he having the name of a great patriot in the country before.

My friend Kathy is the only person who'll be halfway honest with me. 'Did you ever see a cowboy film, where someone has been caught by the Indians and tied between two wild stallions, each pulling in opposite directions?' she asked. I nodded mutely. 'That's a bit what giving birth is like.

Human touch is as important as water and food and air and laughter and new shoes.

It is my honour to act as your ceiling

Not everyone can find a cure for cancer. Someone has to make the dinners and sort the socks.