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Quotes About Support

Seems to me- Lee said, feeling for the words, seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed....
~ Philip Pullman
Tell him, we are not devils but we have friends who are.
~ Philip Pullman
Truly," he said, "I am dead Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I'm dead, and I'm going to Hell Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â "Hush," said Lyra, "we'll go together.
~ Philip Pullman
Seems to me the place to fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed.
~ Philip Pullman
Seems to me –" Lee said, feeling for the words – "seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed.
~ Philip Pullman
Maybe so," he said, "but whatever little chance of safety there is, I want her to have it.
~ Philip Pullman
I think Lyra's braver than me; I think she's the best friend I ever had.
~ Philip Pullman
But some time during the next few months, Will realized slowly and unwillingly that those enemies of his mother's were not in the world out there, but in her mind. That made them no less real, no less frightening and dangerous; it just meant he had to protect her even more carefully.
~ Philip Pullman
Me parece que el sitio adecuado para plantar cara a la crueldad es aquel donde uno la encuentra, del mismo modo que es buen sitio para prestar ayuda aquel donde uno se topa con alguien necesitado.
~ Philip Pullman
seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed.
~ Philip Pullman
Lyra encouraged, bullied, hit, half-carried, swore at, pushed, dragged, lifted tenderly, wherever it was needed, and Pantalaimon (by the state of each child's dæmon) told her what was needed in each case. I'll get them there, she kept saying to herself. I come here to get 'em and I'll bloody get 'em.
~ Philip Pullman
Lyra encouraged, bullied, hit, half-carried, swore at, pushed, dragged, lifted tenderly, wherever it was needed, and Pantalaimon (by the state of each child's dæmon) told her what was needed in each case.
~ Philip Pullman
She was genuinely startled. Will had appeared out of nowhere in order to help her; surely that was obvious. The idea that she had come all this way in order to help him took her breath away.
~ Philip Pullman
He calls his brother. it is the wrong brother from whom to seek consolation, but what can he do? When it comes to consolation it is always the wrong brother, the wrong father, the wrong mother, the wrong wife, which is why one must be content to console oneself and be strong and go on in life consoling others.
~ Philip Roth
It's important that neighborhood life goes on as usual—otherwise, it's not only the stricken and their families who are victims, but Weequahic itself becomes a victim. At
~ Philip Roth
Sheila would know. She knew it all. Yes, she'd have an answer to that one too. . . . She'd come so far, Sheila had said, she'd gotten so much stronger I thought that she could make it on her own. She's a strong girl, Seymour. She's a crazy girl. She's crazy! She's troubled. And the father plays no role with the troubled daughter? I'm sure he played plenty of a role. I just thought something terrible had happened at home.
~ Philip Roth
It is true that doing original math is 'lonely.' But it is also true that professional mathematicians compose a community.
~ David Foster Wallace
Spiritual friends help us most when they make clear that their job is to point the way, not to lead the way. And the Way to which they should point is Jesus.
~ David G. Benner
The counterinsurgent reaches a position of strength when his power is embedded in a political organization issuing from, and firmly supported by, the population.
~ Unknown
A problem shared is a problem doubled
~ David Gemmell
Someone, who when the whole world turns against you, is still standing by your side.
~ David Gemmell
I might be fired, but I still have friends.
~ David Gerrold
If it wasn't for Jamie staying with me all the time, I don't know what I would have done. He says it was hard because he knew what Mom wasn't telling me, but that's when Jamie and I started being friends.
~ David Gerrold
She sat across from him at the kitchen table at three o'clock in the morning, while he stared in silence or talked or wept, and she took when she could a piece of his sorrow and stored it for him in her own heart.
~ David Guterson