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Quotes About Support

You shine...such a light on me.
~ John Shors
If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.
~ John Steinbeck
A guy needs somebody?to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.
~ John Steinbeck
It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary
~ John Steinbeck
She knew she could help him best by being silent and by being near.
~ John Steinbeck
Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is.
~ John Steinbeck
Two are better than one,because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.
~ John Steinbeck
It is better to sit in appreciative contemplation of a world in which beauty is eternally supported on a foundation of ugliness: cut out the support, and beauty will sink from sight.
~ John Steinbeck
Women and children knew deep in themselves that no misfortune was too great to bear if their men were whole.
~ John Steinbeck
All we got is the family unbroke.
~ John Steinbeck
I don't ever drink alone. It's not much fun. And I don't think I will until I am an alcoholic.
~ John Steinbeck
Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody—to be near him." He whined, "A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya," he cried, "I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.
~ John Steinbeck
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his gellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not anthoer to help him up…Again, if two lie together then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone? And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him, and a three-fold cord is not quickly broken.
~ John Steinbeck
There would come a time in our poverty when we needed a party.
~ John Steinbeck
Doc was more than first citizen of Cannery Row. He was healer of the wounded soul and the cut finger.
~ John Steinbeck
No one wants advice--only corroboration.
~ John Steinbeck
I'm learnin' one thing good," she said. "Learnin' it all a time, ever' day. If you're in trouble or hurt or need—go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help—the only ones.
~ John Steinbeck
Kitaplar bir halta yaramaz. İnsan?n birine ihtiyac? vard?r, birine yak?n olmak ister. İnler gibi devam etti. Kimsesi yoksa delirir insan. Kim olduÄŸu hiç önemli deÄŸildir, yeter ki yan?nda biri olsun. inan?n bana, insan fazla yaln?z kald? m?, hastalan?r.
~ John Steinbeck
A man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary.
~ John Steinbeck
Thy life is not thine own to govern, Danny, for it controls other lives. See how thy friends suffer! Spring to life, Danny, that thy friends may live again!
~ John Steinbeck
Guys like us are the loneliest in the world. No family. No place where we belong. Nothing to look forward to. We're different, we have a future. We have someone who gives a damn about us. I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you and that's why.
~ John Steinbeck
We got each other, that's what, that gives a hoot in hell about us.
~ John Steinbeck
Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody to be near him
~ John Steinbeck
Olive was way beyond hearing anything, but her chin was set and she was determined to help the pilot so that he would not be too afraid before they hit the earth. She smiled and nodded again. At the end of each stunt he looked back, and each time she encouraged him. Afterward he said over and over, She's the goddamest woman I ever saw. I tore up the rule book and she wanted more. Good Christ, what a pilot she would have made!
~ John Steinbeck