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Quotes About Dependence

I wasn't disturbed so much by the O Lord, we thank Thee for the blessing of Thy day, but We commend our lives into Thy hands. O lord is frankly not the sort of thing you want to hear from a pilot as his hand is reaching for the throttle.
~ Douglas Adams
Now - here is my secret: I tell it to you with an openness of heart that I doubt I shall ever achieve again, so I pray that you are in a quiet room as you hear these words. My secret is that I need God - that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I no longer seem capable of giving; to help me be kind, as I no longer seem capable of kindness; to help me love, as I seem beyond being able to love.
~ Douglas Coupland
how can I go on this mission without you you, who might have told me everything you feel is true?
~ Adrienne Rich
Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
~ Agatha Christie
One can't do anything without a man. Men know so much, and are able to get information in so many ways that are simply impossible to women.
~ Agatha Christie
the maxim, 'If you want a thing done safely, do not do it yourself!
~ Agatha Christie
She existed, one might say, only in him and for him." Miss Williams paused a minute and then said quietly: "That, I think, is the justification for what she eventually did.
~ Agatha Christie
When dealing in the technology, it becomes a question of whether you overuse something. I think that's worse than having something technologically available to you and not using it.
~ Al Michaels
Never underestimate a droid
~ Alan Dean Foster
We need others to fulfill things in us that cannot.happen solo.
~ Alan E. Nelson
on chess] He had learned the moves, back in Vidin, from Levitzky the tailor, who called it "the Russian game." Thus, the old man pointed out, the weak were sacrificed. The castles, fortresses, were obvious and basic; the bishops moved obliquely; the knights—an officer class—sought power in devious ways; the queen, second-in-command, was pure aggression; and the king, heart of it all, a helpless target, dependent totally on his forces for survival.
~ Alan Furst
Sweetness and Night Long past indignant at the loss of dignity, almost amused by it, but not, every moment of the day a strip search in public, every breath a punishment for what? she couldn't say, which makes her no less penitent, sitting forward, head bowed, in the chair she can't get out of without help, which is itself another punishment,
~ Alan Shapiro
Sooner or later everything boils down to trust. You just have to make that leap of faith.
~ Alastair Reynolds
Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality.
~ Julie London
A friend in need is a pest.
~ Bobby Heenan
Even though you can't get along without your smartphone, there are not many essential services on your smartphone. They're mostly convenience; you could live without it. Essential means you die without it. A gadget that warns you're about to have a heart attack - that's essential. We're about to go into that phase with smartphones.
~ Martin Cooper
The Philippines will have to once and for all abandon its full-spectrum dependence on America as a guarantor of its national security.
~ Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Kids don't know what life was like without cell phones.
~ Jerry Della Femina
Without a piano I don't know how to stand, don't know what to do with my hands.
~ Norah Jones
I purposefully try to go through days without picking my phone up, and that's hard to do because we're so dependent on it.
~ Kevin Harvick
Never cut the hand that feed you, otherwise you are no-good piece of garbage.
~ The Iron Sheik
I used to make fun of my friends who had BlackBerries. And I know that the expression CrackBerry has been going around, but now I fully understand it. I'm actually addicted to a piece of machinery, and that's really embarrassing.
~ John Krasinski
I've been in relationships and had long-term boyfriends since I was 13, so I've always had that emotional pillar of support. I'd got to a point where I felt like I couldn't live without that.
~ Emily Atack
My wife and my kids have been my pillars.
~ Sonu Sood