Quotes About Support

It's never trouble to do things for people you love.

One small gesture of compassion can have a life-changing impact.

If you are struck by a bus, someone may steal your purse or wallet while you lie injured, but many more will come to your aid, trying to save your precious life. One person will call 911, and another will race down the street to alert a police officer on his or her beat. Someone else will take off his coat, fold it, and place it under your head, so that if these are indeed your last moments of life you will die in the small but real comfort of knowing that someone cared about you.

Why do I always have to be helping people . . . and getting no help myself?

You see, nobody cares about me except you. You don't know what that's like. You've always had people who cared. You've always had people . I've never had anybody. No wonder I feel frustrated.

Well, you won't abandon me, will you. Don't be silly, Ludens, you are buckled to my heart.

Well, we all three loved and comforted each other. We were poorish and lonely and awkward together.

He was not notably vertebrate and could hardly look after himself, so how could he look after Crystal?

He was extremely angry with Bellamy who had, when Clement needed him, refused to be with him.

Your best friends are in trouble and you say 'of course' and forget them instantly.

We naturally take in the catastrophes of our friends a pleasure which genuinely does not preclude friendship. This is partly but not entirely because we enjoy being empowered as helpers. The unexpected or inappropriate catastrophe is especially piquant.

We'll see you through, Martin, said Antonia . . . So do not be guilty or worried, darling Martin. I won't be guilty or worried, I'll be raving mad, I said. I don't want you to see me through. I want to be left alone by both of you at long last.

Charles, don't destroy yourself, said James. Why are you always so intent on breaking everything that surrounds and supports you?

I'll look after you, I'll go with you anywhere, I won't ever leave you.

No one, thank God, has attempted to befriend me.

Partly, I still felt something of the sheer unholy excitement which I had experienced initially at the thought of a friend (especially this one) in trouble.

These young people have got to suffer, we can't save them from it —

They mean well, and they mean well tae me, but there's nae way under the sun that they can appreciate what ah feel, what ah need. Protect me from those who wish tae help us.

His friends will decline in their numbers as his needs increase. The inverse, or perverse, mathematics ay life.

No pasa nada..., se pondrá bien..., saben lo que hacen..., se pondrá bien.» Y sé que no es cierto, pero abrazo a Janey y pienso en lo mucho que puede llegar a cambiar una vida en lo que tarda uno en meterse un pico.

They mean well, and they mean well tae me, but there's nae way under the sun that they can appreciate what ah feel, what ah need. Protect me from those who wish tae help us.

Every support had its arseholes.

When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion—the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right.

the mere act of not being a traitor is also a long way from agreeing to be an active helper.