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Quotes About Support

You can't be gone. I need you here, with me. What am I going to do without you?
~ Patrick Carman
She believed the key element to patriotism was display; that it was all about being seen to support a cause, being seen to wave a flag.
~ Unknown
In opinion polls, large majorities of Americans (85 percent or more), women and men, agreed that fathers deserved an income that would support their wives and children at home and that the labor of mothers was secondary or supplemental. This was seen as simple justice.17
~ Patrick J. Buchanan
Just as coaddicts sometimes make addicts into "parents," coaddicts will treat addicts as "another child in the family.
~ Unknown
Yes, AND…" reinforces emotions. When you use "Yes, AND…" you inevitably end up sending the right emotional signals to the person you're conversing with. Whatever they are conveying, you are agreeing with. You become an ally. You become somebody that they can trust.
~ Unknown
Rule of Improv Comedy: In response to someone else's suggestion, thought, or topic, always say "Yes, AND…" to move to their topic and add something to it, to keep the conversation flowing.
~ Unknown
Fourth: immune people. Everyone has safe people whom they actually don't really drain with and whom they feel absolute safety with. For some,
~ Unknown
Rule of Improv Comedy: Never lead with "No." because it disregards the direction that someone wants to go and makes it more difficult to work towards a common, shared goal.
~ Unknown
Our true friends are who we feel like will be there for us thick and thin. You don't get to that position just by standing next to each other silently, no matter how long you have stood. Friendships and relationships are a series of shared moments and connections, driven by conversation.
~ Unknown
Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they're doing it because they care about the team.
~ Patrick Lencioni
And yeah, I know most people would think it weird that two guy friends touch as much as we do, but when you choose your family, you get to choose how it is between you, too. This is how we work. I hope you get to choose your family and I hope it means as much to you as mine does to me.
~ Patrick Ness
And you," he says, "you need to talk to your boy." He lifts my chin. "And if he needs saving, then you save him. Isn't that what you told me you did for each other?" I let go a few more tears but then I nod. "Over and over again.
~ Patrick Ness
Seth," she says, "wherever you are, it's okay. You can come back from it. Whatever happened to you down there, whatever the world looks like now, that's not how it always looks. That's not how it's always going to look. There's more. There's always more. Whatever you see, wherever you are, we're still here with you. Me and Tommy.
~ Patrick Ness
VIOLA Cuz she's here - She came - She came for me - And she calls my name - And I feel her strength coursing thru my Noise like a fire - And the Mayor staggers back like he's been punched in the face by a row of houses - "Ah, yes," he grunts, his hand to his head. "Your tower of strength has arrived." "Todd!" I hear her call again - And I take it and I use it - Cuz I can feel her there, riding to the end of the world to find me, to save me if I needed saving - Which I did -
~ Patrick Ness
If one of us falls, we all fall.
~ Patrick Ness
It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.
~ Patrick Ness
We just keep on having to save each other", he says. "We ever gonna be even?" "I hope not," I say
~ Patrick Ness
Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.
~ Patrick Ness
No," Seth says, firmly, "what I've learned is that there actually is more. There's you guys. You guys are my more.
~ Patrick Ness
He'd heard once that the only people who could effectively treat the trauma of surviving an airplane crash were other survivors of airplane crashes. You could only instinctively trust someone who had been there, who had seen it firsthand.
~ Patrick Ness
His grandma burst into his mum's hospital room ahead of him with a terrible question on her face. But there was a nurse inside who answered immediately. "It's okay," she said. "You're in time.
~ Patrick Ness
I'm sorry for telling about your mom, read the first line. I miss being your friend, read the second. Are you okay? read the third. I see you, read the fourth, with the I underlined about a hundred times.
~ Patrick Ness
When one falls we all fall.
~ Patrick Ness
You told me, just now, just today, that you'd rather be dead than have to go through this much longer. I take that seriously. I don't think your suffering is fake. I don't think these feelings about wanting it to end are fake. I don't think your self-hatred is fake. So why do you think it's fake?
~ Patrick Ness