Quotes About Support

Partnerships should be equal. You can protect her, yes, but shouldn't she also be able to protect you?

I meant simply to steady her, but she softened into me, almost sagged, and my arm tightened, and my need, and she let herself go so that I was half holding her up with one arm and pulling her pants down with the other.

That lass is yours. Protect her.

She raised her cup to Edwin and wondered how much longer she could help him stay king.

We would have lost more without our mysterious helper who has melted away like mist.

He looked so small and wounded in his bright jacket that I opened my arms and pulled him in. He wrapped his hands around my hips, leaned his forehead on my breastbone and wept. He smelled of woodsmoke and tea.

Your mother has built you a place where you can speak your word openly. Now she asks you to use that for her, and for yourself of course.

It didn't matter about Luz. She was nothing to do with me. Sending money was all I needed to do. More. I hadn't put her with the foster parents in Arkansas. I didn't have to help her, or any of the others-because, oh, suddenly it was so clear that there were others. Many, many others.

Find people. People you know are on your side. Not a priest. Not a slave. Kings die, even overkings. Especially overkings. So find people.

I'm your friend. I have been for a long time, even if I sometimes wonder if you know what that means.

I was the one who helped, the competent one, armored and invulnerable. Aud rhymes with proud.

We both love her, as we love each other. We will not set her aside.

She had sworn to be totem and token to her people, to light their path, not darken it.

To maintain that "all ideas are respectable" is nothing but pompous nonsense. Nevertheless, there is no opinion that the support of a sufficient number of imbeciles does not oblige one to put up with. Let us not disguise our impotence as tolerance.

Il y a pas une grande sagesse a dire un mot de reproche ; mais il y a une plus grande sagesse a dire un mot qui, sans se moquer du malheur de l'homme, le ranime, lui rende du courage, comme les éperons rendent du courage à un cheval que l'abreuvoir a rafraîchi.

Wander not in the darkness, seeking the way, lest ye fall into the ditch; but gather together, sustain one another, put your faith in your God and wait for the first glimmer of light to re-appear. 9. "He who sustains his neighbor, sustains himself; and he who protects his family, protects all his people and his country.

I think when you're in a relationship where you really care for the other person, when they achieve their dreams it's better than when you do yourself.

by some subtle magic of friendship dividing her burden of news and surprises in half. This was what people did for each other when they were in alliance. It was the blessing of connectedness.

You know, I'm just - I'm really happy for my dad.

I'm going to take care of the man I'm with. I grew up in a household where my mum takes care of my dad - she cooks, she does everything - and that's the kind of girl I am.

Your truest friends are the ones who will stand by you in your darkest moments--because they're willing to brave the shadows with you--and in your greatest moments--because they're not afraid to let you shine.

it was wartime. People were being bombed out all over the place. Bad experience is more bearable when you are not the only sufferer.

So, just collecting lots of data to SUPPORT a Theory is of limited use: a good Scientist looks for evidence to DISPROVE a Theory.

We are constantly "knitting" ourselves from people and situations that we encounter, through the words we exchange and the feelings that arise. We might feel that if one "stitch" is dropped, our lives will unravel. In fact, "if just one stitch holds, we can start all over again.