Quotes About Dependence

next to some people something walks, like a starveling, sometimes for a lifetime.

But I am king. And the well-being of my kingdom depends on my sound judgment and clear head. And those things depend on my state of happiness. And I have known for a long time that my state of happiness depends on you.

God is looking for individuals who are dependent on him and who are not expecting others to open the doors. He is watching for those who longingly wait for an open-door experience with the One who is the Master of all keys.

It was the first truly profound strategic mistake we made in our long struggle for complete equality. It made us a "contingent people" whose fate depended on what others did for us.

it was slavish to think that black advancement was somehow dependent on the good offices of a white man without half the gravitas of black leaders like King or James Farmer or Malcolm X.

I think people just like seeing friendship. I think people like seeing people who just drive each other up the wall, but at same time, can't live without each other.

Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.

Essentially, all life depends upon the soil ... There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have evolved together.

Be acted upon rather than active. In this way, God will do through you alone what all men put together could not do without Him.

To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

People are so prone to lean upon gifted men. And if they cannot have such, they get discouraged and scattered, instead of getting lovingly together and helping one another by their mutual faith.

When you're together with someone for some time, you will automatically depend on them as if they were a crutch. And then it ends.

It would be such bliss just to go to him and let him take charge of her life. And he would do so, she knew.

They say dogs are man's best friend," he said. "But horses are man's best slave.

But because of you, I couldn't die and couldn't monster myself, either. So you were the agent of my rescue—not a good job for somebody barely three feet tall. Blameless

How many women, she wondered, had poisoned their husbands, not for gain or for another man, but out of sheer inability to leave them. The extreme solution is always the simplest. The weed killer is in the soup; the man is in his coffin.

As Darwin pointed out in The Origin of Species (opening pages of chapter three), the 'struggle for existence' can often be described just as well as a mutual dependence. And harmless coexistence as parts of the same eco-sphere is also a very common relation. . . . Among social creatures, positive gregariousness, a liking for each other's company, is the steady, unnoticed background for the conflicts.

My total friendlessness, my horror of pushing, and inability to put myself forward unless led, cherished and supported – all this has sunk me in a state of loneliness no other human being, ever before, I believe endured – except Robinson Crusoe . .

I find the world is full of people who think that their dependence on others is decreasing, or that they would be better off if they were more self-sufficient, or that technological progress has brought no improvement in the standard of living, or that the world is steadily deteriorating, or that the exchange of things and ideas is a superfluous irrelevance.

To wait on God is to live a life of desire towards him, delight in him, dependence on him, and devotedness to him.

He was the closest thing she had to a pony.

Art is inextricably tied to man's survival - not to his physical survival, but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and survival of his consciousness.

All that which proceeds from man's independent ego is good. All that which proceeds from man's dependence upon men is evil.

Keating felt naked...People were his protection against people. Roark had no sense of people. Others gave Keating a feeling of his own value. Roark gave him nothing.