Quotes About Support

It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.

I like to crawl away and hide in a corner. Well, he said, with a transitory gleam of himself, you're my corner and I've come to hide.

You give me your advice, and stand by ready to rally round with your myrmidons in case there's any roughhousing.

Poor little Hilary Thorpe wasn't in church,' she observed. 'Such a nice child. I should have liked you to see her. But she's quite prostrated, poor child, so Mrs Gates tells me. And you know, the village people do stare so at anybody who's in trouble and they will want to talk and condole. They mean well, but it's a terrible ordeal.

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them." ? Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

Although most families on welfare are not Black, Blacks disproportionately rely on welfare to support their children. Black women are only 6 percent of the population, but they represent a third of AFDC recipients.

If someone is determined to kill himself, nothing will stop him.

It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one to make it a failure." —Herbert Samuel

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

What I need... is a strong drink and a peer group.

One is never alone with a rubber duck.

If you ever find you need help again, you know, if you're in trouble, need a hand out of a corner... Yeah? Please don't hesitate to get lost.

If you ever find you need help again, you know, if you are in trouble, need a hand out of a tight corner, please, don't hesitate to get lost.

I have nothing to offer you' said Hactar faintly, 'but tricks of the light. It is possible to be comfortable with tricks of the light, though, if that is all you have.' His voice evanesced, and in the dark a long, velvet paisley-covered sofa coalesced into hazy shape. ... At least, if it wasn't real, it did support them, and as that is what sofas are supposed to do, this, by any test that mattered, was a real sofa.

Since Douglas died he has come to mind with astonishing frequency, which seems to be the experience of many who were close to him. His presence is still remarkably powerful nearly a year after his death, and I can't help thinking he had a hand in the amazing ease with which this book came together. I know he would have keenly wanted you to enjoy it, and I hope you will.

All day he had gone up to people, fallen into conversation with them, listened to their troubles, and then quietly uttered those three magic words, "I believe you." The effect had invariably been electrifying.

In fact, he had always done the bare minimum of research necessary to support these myths. He was lazy, and essentially what he did was allow people's enthusiastic credulity to do the work for him.

He let this feeling subside, and then sat on the sofa – carefully. Trillian sat on it too. It was real. At least, if it wasn't real, it did support them, and as that is what sofas are supposed to do, this, by any test that mattered, was a real sofa.

And if you want to pop off for a quick one yourself later on," said Ford, "we can always cover for you in return.

Arthur tried to hold her hand to steady her and reassure her, but she wouldn't let him. He held on to his airline hold-all with its tin of Greek olive oil, its towel, its crumpled postcards of Santorini and its other odds and ends. He steadied and reassured that instead.

Don't Panic.' It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.

?ovjek pokraj Forda se dosad ve? malo nacvrcao. O?i su mu zavijugale do Forda. Mislio sam, rekao je, da kad svijet propada treba le?i na pod i staviti papirnatu kesu na glavu ili tako nešto. Ako ho?ete, možete, re?e Ford. Tako su nam rekli u vojsci, rekao je ?ovjek, a o?i su mu krenule na dug put natrag do njegovog viskija. To ?e pomo?i?, upita barmen. Ne, rekao je Ford im prijateljski se osmjehnuo.

If you ever find you need help again, you know, if you're in trouble, need a hand out of a tight corner …" "Yeah?" "Please don't hesitate to get lost.

I think of how the person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.