Quotes About Support

To accept people is to be for them. It is to recognize that it is a very good thing that these people are alive, and to long for the best for them. It does not, of course, mean to approve of everything they do. It means to continue to want what is best for their souls no matter what they do.

Watch a marriage that was begun with hope and dreams, but has now plateaued, where affections have cooled and intimacy has faded. Rather than name the problem, face their pain, and ask for help, the couple resign themselves to a life of mediocrity, living together as intimate strangers. See a middle-aged man who spends

Yet in these and the like distresses doth the word of God, by its divine power and efficacy, break through all interposing difficulties, all dark and discouraging circumstances, supporting, refreshing, and comforting such poor distressed sufferers, yea, commonly filling them under overwhelming calamities with "joy unspeakable and full of glory." Though

Alexander Morris, lieutenant governor of Manitoba in the 1870s and chief treaty negotiator: "[I wish] to take the Ojibwa by the hand and never let go your hand." We

They know that they are practically unarmed. Yet they are trying to find out how to help us.

Some of the locals have rendered assistance, Weaver said. I'd make a redneck joke but I are one.

A man never stood so tall as when he stooped to help a child.

My core constituency will

systems—power, propulsion, communication, life support—were

Hold my hand." "What?" "C'mon, hold my hand. He's a 'phobe. Lean your head a little sideways into me, look me in the eyes, and we walk toward the front of the store, taking our time . . ." Lucas said, "Ah, shit," and took Virgil's hand. One of the FBI agents said, watching them, "Oh my God.

It's about time you got here, you hunk. He gave her a little squeeze an asked, Why don't you run away with me? Then you wouldn't have a job and I'd have to support you. Weather said. Then he'd be dead and you wouldn't have to support him, Davenport said. Still, couple good days at a Motel 6 in Mankato . . . might be worth it, Virgil said to her. Davenport said, Yeah it would be. When you're right, you're right.

Catrin Mattsson was doing all right. She was still screwed up and admitted it, but drugs and shrinks were moving her around to the place where she could live with herself. She'd become friends with his wife and daughter, and would occasionally drop around for dinner and a chat.

Even without the Interdependency, being interdependent was the best way for humanity to survive.

Simply put, she was the one who had to put up with me. That she did so with love and patience and encouragement instead of strangling me, throwing my remains into a wood chipper, and then pretending she had never been married to me at all is a testament to the fact that she is, in fact, the single best person I know.

Praise is always a good thing, especially in a crisis.

My job is to be your loyal opposition.

Whether they are up to our standards or not, the fact remains: We need more crew.

some of your writer friends will do better than you, by whatever standard you decide "better" counts as. And you know what you should do? Be happy for them, you neurotic twit.

I support gay marriage because I support marriage.

I've got the target and I need support. And a ride.:: ::Five minutes and you'll have both,:: Harvey said. ::Just don't rush me.:: ::I'm rushing you,::

In my opinion, the goal of parenthood is to teach your kid how to explore the world and find himself or herself in it; this naturally requires that the focus is on the kid, and not the parent. The parent who is leaping in and mud-wrestling a teacher over a "B" or bribing the local daycare center staff to get their kid in is probably not focused on what the kid needs so much as what the parent thinks he needs to prove.

No human is an island. They are rarely even peninsulas.

A sibling would be the one person in the whole world who would be with you from birth until death. At every step, she or he would be there.

without you there is only me, and with you there is us.