Supporting Quotes
485 quotes by 431 authors
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Family was even a bigger word than I imagined, wide and without limitations, if you allowed it, defying easy definition. You had family that was…
— Deb Caletti
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This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it when we are…
— Robertson Davies
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..the struggle to end sexist oppression that focuses on destroying the cultural basis for such domination strengthens other liberation struggles. Individuals who fight for the…
— Bell Hooks
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There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It's really teamwork, one…
— Keith Richards
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I also believe, without any supporting evidence, that cats are evil.
— Evan Mandery
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Surely, if it is the right of the people to "alter or abolish," it is their right to criticize, even severely, policies they believe destructive…
— Howard Zinn
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Those silly girls had no idea what they were really celebrating. They had no idea what it took to bring Agatha and her friends together…
— Sarah Addison Allen
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Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I…
— Franz Kafka
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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
— Carson McCullers
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Anything else you want to tell me?†I asked Valek as we stopped a few feet short of the castle’s south entrance. “Did Ari and…
— Maria V. Snyder
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We had stretched out our arms to each other and supported something in our joined hands, but this thing we were holding was like a…
— Yukio Mishima
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His answers were quite often like that. When she spoke of beauty, he spoke of the fatty tissue supporting the epidermis. When she mentioned love,…
— Robert Musil
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Rachel,†came a raspy voice from the upper level, and both Trent and I turned. It was Quen, wrapped in a blanket as if it…
— Kim Harrison
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And somewhere in that crimson-colored never-never land where i pirouetted madly, in a wild and crazy effort to exhaust myself into insensibility, i saw that…
— Virginia C. Andrews
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Western parents try to respect their children’s individuality, encouraging them to pursue their true passions, supporting their choices, and providing positive reinforcement and a nurturing…
— Amy Chua
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Personal purity isn’t really the issue. Not supporting animal abuse – and persuading others not to support it – is.
— Peter Singer
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A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling…
— Ayn Rand
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‗In life, at sometime or another we come to a point where all relationships cease—where there is only us and Allah. There are no parents,…
— Umera Ahmed
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You will find ambiguity a great ally on your road to power. Give a sign of Slytherin on one day, and contradict it with a…
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Every man who loves his country, or wishes well to the best interests of society, will show himself a decided friend not only of morality…
— Josiah Johnson Hawes
Who Wrote These Supporting Quotes
431 authors contributed a total of 485 Supporting Quotes, led by these top contributors: