support quotes

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.

-John, 1st BaronTweedsmuir Buchan
  Quoted in H E Fosdick On Being a Real Person, ch.10.

I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility, and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish, without the help and support of the woman I love.

-Edward VIII
  Radio broadcast to the nation,11 Dec, following his abdication to marry Wallis Simpson.

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

- Robert von Ranke Graves
  On writing novels to support his love of writing poetry. In the NewYork Times,13  Jul.

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

- (James Henry) Leigh Hunt
Table-Talk,'Eating'.

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

- Andrew Lang
  Speech. Quoted in  Alan L Mackay  The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977).

I can imagine no length of resistance to which Ulster can go in which I should not be prepared to support them, and in which, in my belief, they would not be supported by the overwhelming majority of the British people.

- (Andrew) Bonar Law
  During the Irish Home Rule crisis, 27  Jul.

And chiefly thou O spirit, that does prefer Before all temples th'upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the highth of this great argument I mayassert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. 580

-John Milton
  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.1, l.16^25.

Tonightto you, the great silent majority of my fellow AmericansI ask for your support.

- Richard M(ilhous) Nixon
   Appeal to the nation, 3 Nov, for support in the Vietnam War.

One is never weaker than when one appears to have everybody's support.

- EŁ  mile Ollivier
  Letters.

   Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one anotheronly in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.

- Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
The Social System, ch.8.

The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.

-Tobias George Smollett
  Of London. Letter from Matthew Bramble, 29 May, Humphrey Clinker, vol.1.