Quotes About Dependence

We travel, work, and have friends, and though Jack is dependent on us, he has his own personality. Animals know their owner.

Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

Agnes like she was a baby bird. Dabney felt a combination of

Paul's wanting does not hinge on anything other than the fact of me. This is an excellent trait in a man.

Dr. Chambers has freed me again into the drawing-room, and I am much better or he would not have done so. There is not, however, much strength or much health, nor any near prospect of regaining either. It is well that, in proportion to our feebleness, we may feel our dependence upon God.

Jane, he realized now, with an old familiar chill, had never lost her grip on his leash.

How did I ever live before I had an AI in my brain?

Thank thee, Will. In mine extremity, I know I could trust in thee.

Two decians later, we didn't have any answers, but we'd kind of gotten used to having the not-a-parasite around. And we were still calling it the not-a-parasite, even though it had proven pretty useful.

Ian looked around for intervention, but he was used to following orders, and used to obeying a queen.

How long has it been, mistress? Just think: I offer what another cannot. I am what I am, and no apologies. I will not lie to you, promise to protect you, take my use of you, and leave. I cannot, and you will always have control of me.

I do not understand why he takes payment to protect us from himself.

Much as I'd like to feed her her own superior smile sometimes, I still want the woman to like me. And I want her to like herself enough to keep doing what we need her for. Because, God knows, I haven't got it in me to try.

Frantic smiles at parties, overtures that have desperation behind them, miasmic reaches of talk with the lost bore, short cuts to approach through staring, squeezing or kissing all indicate that one cannot live alone. Not only is there no question of solitude, but in the long run we may not choose our company.

Everything is all right, When you're here, When you're right next to me, When my hand is in yours, Don't leave me, Don't leave me empty handed.

He has usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself, claiming it as his right to assign for her a sphere of action, when that belongs to her conscience and to her God. He has endeavored in every way that he could to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life.

And then the captains of merchant ships can take their wives to sea with them if they wish, and in the Navy they're not allowed to." "I shouldn't want to take my wife to sea with me," said William. "A wife would be fearfully in the way." Marianne gritted her teeth. Oh, to be a man, and not to be dependent upon the whim of a man to live!

It's just absolute hubris and so arrogant to think that we can survive without everything else. We come from this planet." --- Paul Hardisty, head of the Institute that runs SeaSim in Australia

He can't really love anyone, you know, and in the end such people are always alone, no matter how much other people once loved them.

But there was something out of control about him, something that scared me. At that point in my young life, I was looking for an anchor.

how did she, Ellen Chesser, ever come to such a state of need that a person outside herself, some other being, not herself, some person free to go and come and risk accidents far from herself, should hold the very key to her life and breath in his hand?

As it turned out, she was alone after all. She prayed that he'd come back to her, because she missed him and needed her connection, her fix.

I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold on to. I dare not be without a cigarette in my hand. If I should be looking the other way when the hour of doom is struck, how shall I avoid being turned into stone unless I can remember something to do which will lead me back to the simplicity and safety of daily living?

This authority was why I had fallen in love with William. We crave authority. We do. No matter what anyone says, we crave that sense of authority. Of believing that in the presence of this person we are safe.