#support

Peter was now standing very close - as if he wanted to comfort me - as if he knew how hurt I felt that Mrs Knowles had not asked me to play or to sing. And I did feel comforted. It was as if a tide of warmth was carrying me out of myself, inclining me to trust him and to conduct myself well. ↗

— Jennifer Paynter

#jennifer-paynter #love #loyalty #mary-bennet #peter-bushell

This was how we'd always played. You were Cinderella, I was a mouse. You were Alice, I was the Hatter. You were the sun, and I wasn't even the moon. ↗

— David Levithan

#supportiveness #love

And now here was Arabella, making him feel worse. Maybe that was what she always did; maybe she always made him feel worse, and he'd never really noticed before. Maybe what seemed like the ordinary rough-and-tumble of marriage, combined with hard work and London, was something simpler: the fact that added to any equation, Arabella made it worse. ↗

— John Lanchester

#relationships #support #marriage

She had a vision of the two of them trapped on a tiny raft surrounded by miles of open water. It would be a kind of test, like surviving on a desert island--but that's what a marriage was, wasn't it? They would have to help each other or die. ↗

— Stewart O'Nan

#marriage #support #survival #test #marriage

I've been a strong financial and political supporter of, first, President Bush Sr. when he was running for president, and even when he ran for president a time or two and failed. ↗

— Kenneth Lay

#bush #even #failed #financial #first

If you support the war on drugs in its present form, then you're only paying lip-service to the defense of freedom, and you don't really grasp the concept of the sovereign individual human being. ↗

— Neal Boortz

#concept #defense #form #freedom #grasp

I will always support legislation which respects and values life. ↗

— Gresham Barrett

#i #legislation #life #respects #support

I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community. ↗

— Harry Belafonte

#always #anti-semitism #been #community #even

You just have to surround yourself with people who are going to support and love you before trying to sell you as a product, or push you into something you don't want to do. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#going #into #just #love #love you

America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world. ↗

— William Bennett

#democracy #export #human #human rights #noblest