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Quotes About Support

You can bet on Franco, or Mussolini, or Hitler, if you want. But my money goes on Hipolito.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Every man needs to speak to someone. Before we had faith and other foolishness. Now everyone needs to have someone with whom it can talk to plainly, because a man, in addition to his boldness he can have, feels very lonely.
~ Ernest Hemingway
and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea. He
~ Ernest Hemingway
He worried about everyone and in the time when I first knew him he was most worried about T. S. Eliot who, Ezra told me, had to work in a bank in London and so had insufficient time and bad hours to function as a poet.
~ Ernest Hemingway
no man was ever alone on the sea.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Every one needs to talk to some one," the woman said. "Before we had religion and other nonsense. Now for every one there should be some one to whom one can speak frankly, for all the valor that one could have one becomes very alone." "We are not alone. We are all together.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Nadie debiera estar solo en su vejez. Pero es inevitable.
~ Ernest Hemingway
There is no FRIEND as LOYAL as a BOOK!
~ Ernest Hemingway
wanted to be there to say good-bye to him. No matter what a person does, there ought to be somebody on his side at the last moment.
~ Ernest J. Gaines
had two reasons. Ned was by himself in this world, except for me, and I didn't want no man and no children spiting him just because he was an orphan. The other reason I never looked at a man, I was barren. An old woman on the place had told me that. I went to her one day and told her how my body act and didn't act. After we had sat down and talked a while, she said one word: "Barren." I went to a doctor and he told me the same thing: "You barren, all right.
~ Ernest J. Gaines
Liegen, bei dir ich liege bei dir deine arme halten mich. deine arme halten mehr als ich bin. deine arme halten, was ich bin wenn ich bei dir liege und deine arme halten mich.
~ Ernst Jandl
The warrior does not need a crowd; they need a tribe.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
When you need to run, don't run from God; run to him. Don't run from the people you need in your life; run to them. Life was never meant to be lived alone.
~ Erwin Raphael McManus
The extended family, the community, and religion may indeed have limited our freedom, sexual and otherwise, but in return they offered us a much-needed sense of belonging. For generations, these traditional institutions provided order, meaning, continuity, and social support. Dismantling them has left us with more choices and fewer restrictions than ever. We are freer, but also more alone. As Giddens describes it, we have become ontologically more anxious.
~ Esther Perel
We look to our partner as a bulwark against the vicissitudes of modern life. It is not that our human insecurity is greater today than in earlier times. In fact, quite the contrary may be true. What is different is that modern life has deprived us of our traditional resources, and has created a situation in which we turn to one person for the protection and emotional connections that a multitude of social networks used to provide.
~ Esther Perel
Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity.
~ Esther Perel
My role as a therapist is to create a safe space where the diversity of experiences can be explored with compassion.
~ Esther Perel
Remember, a friend does not need you to impress him. A friend loves you because you are true to yourself, not because you agree with him. Beware of grand gestures; the real mettle of friendship is forged in life's daily workings.
~ Ethan Hawke
Surely even those immune from the world, for the time being, need the touch of one another, or all is lost.
~ Eudora Welty
Vorbitul a tout propos ?i hors de propos dup? modelul lui Paul Sterian, Ion I. Cantacuzino sau Emil Cioran este foarte hazardat si trebuie neap?rat sus?inut de gra?ia primului, silueta impozant? a secundului sau de naivitatea teribil? a celui de al treilea.
~ Eugene Ionesco
You had to suffer shipwreck through your own efforts before you were ready to seize the lifebelt he threw you.
~ Eugen Herrigel
Friends show their love in times of trouble.
~ Euripides
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts — for support rather than for illumination.
~ Andrew Lang
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts -- for support rather than for illumination.
~ Andrew Lang