Quotes About Dependence

You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone.

We have already discovered how quickly we become dependent on the Internet and its applications for business, government and research, so it is not surprising that we are finding that we can apply this technology to enable or facilitate our social interactions as well.

It's just astonishing to me, but not surprising in some respects, how dependent we are on the somewhat meaningless and certainly ephemeral feedback that we get from strangers on the Internet. I think that's a dangerous dependence to develop.

There is something compulsive about a telephone. The gadget-ridden man of our age loves it, loathes it, and is afraid of it. But he always treats it with respect, even when he is drunk. The telephone is a fetish.

here you've got to live, breathe, and eat trust, or you're dead.

If we don't understand our tools, then there is a danger that we will become the tool of our tools

I have always taught that things arise due to the conjunction of causes and conditions not that they arise without a cause.

It was standard Roman policy to forge alliances with the landed aristocracy in every captured city, making them dependent on the Roman overlords for their power and wealth. By aligning their interests with those of the ruling class, Rome ensured that local leaders remained wholly vested in maintaining the imperial system

Under my tutelage you will be safe': the phrase is derived from 'me duce tutus eris' in Ovid's Ars Amatoria, with the literal meaning 'with me as a leader you will be safe'.

You've always tried to pretend you don't need anyone, Tash, but you do. We all do. So just let me be there for you. -Sophie

But you cannot leave Susan. How could you bear to withdraw your love from her? If you didn't love her, who would? And maybe it is worse than this. It is not just that you love her, but that you are addicted to her. How ironic would that be?

Basic male display behaviour of the period, determinedly individualistic while actually dependent on a strict imitation of prevailing norms (...)

I will die, however," he said quite seriously, "if you leave me again. Just watch me.

A loyal servant is a fine thing. We forget, sometimes, how much they do for us.

I only asked the mask to help me recover … I never once asked it to do things its own way.…

We live by our labors from one harvest to the next, there is no certain telling whether we shall be able to feed ourselves and our children, and if bad times are prolonged we know we must see the weak surrender their lives and this fact, too, is within our experience. In our lives there is no margin for misfortune.

Indeed, God is dependent upon man when he wants to act in the world—an idea that would become very important in the Jewish conception of the divine. There are even hints that human beings can discern the activity of God in their own emotions and experiences, that Yahweh is part of the human condition.

Animal sacrifice, for example, the central rite of nearly every religious system in antiquity, preserved prehistoric hunting ceremonies and continued to honor a beast that gave its life for the sake of humankind. One of the functions of ritual is to evoke an anxiety in such a way that the community is forced to confront and control it. From the very beginning, it seems, religious life was rooted in acknowledgment of the tragic fact that life depends upon the destruction of other creatures.

And the maximum number extracted. You know what your bosses say about attachment, littl'un. Don't get too attached to me.

what she really wanted from him, needed from him, was to know that she could always pick up the phone and he would be there. That was all Lena had ever wanted from Hank. That was actually the one thing he had always given her.

Once you start having babies, that perfect, loving husband of yours will start treating you like a milk cow. Trust me. It's like they think they have something over you. And they do. You're trapped, and they know that you need them, but they can walk away at any time and find somebody younger and tighter to have fun with.

You are the reason I am alive. I would've never made it without you. Do you understand me? You are my heart. You are every ounce of blood in my body.

I didn't know how to be with a man who wanted to be with me." The softness had drained away. "I was addicted to Kenny's uncertainty, that niggling little doubt in my gut that made me wonder if I could survive without him. I thought I could fix the pain inside of him. It took me a long time to realize that the pain was inside of me.

She hated the thought of needing people almost as much as she hated having to reach out to them.