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Quotes About Support

You can try hard to protect people from further changes while they're trying to regain their balance.
~ William Bridges
STRENGTHEN INTRAGROUP CONNECTIONS The neutral zone is a lonely place. People feel isolated, especially if they don't understand what is happening to them. As I have already noted, old problems are likely to resurface and old resentments are likely to come back to life. For these reasons it is especially important to try to rebuild a sense of identification with the group and of connectedness with one another.
~ William Bridges
Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
~ William Butler Yeats
And say my glory was I had such friends.
~ William Butler Yeats
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.
~ William Butler Yeats
Think where man's glory most begins and ends And say my glory was I had such friends.
~ William Butler Yeats
These well-to-do were many of the same men who so enthusiastically supported secession at the outset—the ones who so confidently blustered that independence would be so quick and easy that they would eat all the flesh of those killed in any war, and drink all the blood spilled. Now in mid-1864 still "those that brought the war on is at home & our boys are fighting for there property
~ William C. Davis
I think these days when there is so little to believe in——when the old loyalties——God, country, and the hope of Heaven——aren't very real, we are more dependent than we should be on our friends. The only thing left to believe in——someone who seems beautiful.
~ William Carlos Williams
The Company's ever-growing Indian empire could not have been achieved without the political and economic support of regional power groups and local communities. The
~ William Dalrymple
Lord Valentia famously observed that it was better that 'India be ruled from a palace than a counting house'; but it was this spendthrift use of Company funds that more than anything gradually eroded Wellesley's support among the Company Directors
~ William Dalrymple
Hoy en día, la falta de retroalimentación es uno de los defectos más críticos de la ayuda.
~ William Easterly
We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt.
~ William Ernest Hocking
(Trump) risks alienating the very powerful base that elected him if he doesn't act soon. We've given Republicans all of the branches of government, and we don't want to see them support DACA by any means. Orange County Register, Jan. 27, 2017
~ William Gheen
Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.
~ William Glasser
In a Glasser Quality School there is no such thing as a closed book test. Students are told to get out their notes and open their books. There is no such thing as being forbidden to ask the teacher or another student for help.
~ William Glasser
Now, the aid which helps a man to help himself is not in the least akin to the aid which is given in charity. If
~ William Graham Sumner
He drops out of the ranks of workers and producers. Society must support him. It accepts the burden, but he must be cancelled from the ranks of the rulers likewise. So
~ William Graham Sumner
a word, in times of public calamity, when the flood of God's wrath comes rolling in upon a nation, like waves irresistibly, at the wide breach which the high crying sins of the times make, and the few righteous that are found upon the place labour to stand in the gap, by their prayers, begging the life of the nation, but God will not hear, even then sincerity will be a sweet support while we share with others in the common calamity
~ William Gurnall
To say we love one, and not pray for him, is a solecism.
~ William Gurnall
A friend for adversity is as proper as fire is for a winter's day.
~ William Gurnall
Compurgator, one that under oath vouches for the character or conduct of an accused person. From Webster's.—SDB
~ William Gurnall
In a word, in times of public calamity, when the flood of God's wrath comes rolling in upon a nation, like waves irresistibly, at the wide breach which the high crying sins of the times make, and the few righteous that are found upon the place labour to stand in the gap, by their prayers, begging the life of the nation, but God will not hear, even then sincerity will be a sweet support while we share with others in the common calamity.
~ William Gurnall
Family is, after all—however irritating—family.
~ William H. Patterson Jr.
Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.
~ William Hale White