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Quotes About Dependence

We couldn't operate a single day without Cal, have you ever thought of that? You think about how much Cal does for you, and you mind her, you hear?
~ Harper Lee
Honey, the sun rises and sets with that Bill of hers. Everything he says is Gospel. She loves her man. Is that what loving your man is? Has a lot to do with it. Jean Louise said, You mean losing your own identity, don't you? In a way, yes, said Henry. Then I doubt if I shall ever marry.
~ Harper Lee
With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable. I stayed miserable for two days.
~ Harper Lee
Avec lui, la vie était banale, sans lui, elle devenait insupportable.
~ Harper Lee
He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me.
~ Haruki Murakami
For her, loneliness is something you have others remove for you. And once it's gone, everything's okay. Doesn't go any further. I can't live that way.
~ Haruki Murakami
The two of us are linked together by the heavy bonds of silence that pass through the wall seperating our two worlds. We need each other more than anything, I feel without a doubt.
~ Haruki Murakami
I was beginning to understand what Hiraku Makimura meant about Ame's wearing him down. Ame didn't give anything. She only took. She consumed those around her to sustain herself. And those around her always gave. Her talent was manifested in a powerful gravitational pull. She believed it was her privilege, her right. Harmony and peace. In order for her to have that, she had everyone waiting on her hand and foot.
~ Haruki Murakami
Cuando su corazón se mueve, tira del mío. Como dos barcas atadas por una cuerda. Que no se puede cortar, pues no existe ningún cuchillo capaz de cortarla.
~ Haruki Murakami
But she would never have set eyes on him or given him the time of day if he hadn't become filthy rich. His money had indeed bought him love. Given what he had seen of the world, the exchange of love for money seemed to be one of the commodities that never wavered - it was as dependable an investment as electricity.
~ Heather O'Neill
I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over again. I don't think it's good to become so dependent on a certain writing process.
~ Brie Larson
I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it.
~ Nick Rhodes
Since the end of WWII, France's steady movement away from Western ideas of individual liberty and self-determination - and toward collectivist action and conformance - has created a people overly dependent on government, hobbled by crippling taxes and lacking in individual initiative.
~ Charlie Kirk
Truth is, I think, if God just gave us our daily bread, many of us would be angry. 'That's all you're going to give me? You're just going to give me enough to sustain me for today? What about tomorrow or next year or 10, 20, 30 years from now? I want to know that I'm set up.' And yet Jesus says just pray for your daily provisions.
~ Francis Chan
One year of parenthood made us realize our responsibility towards our son. We also understood how a child needs his parents and how much they are dependent on their parents for anything to everything.
~ Amrapali Gupta
I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.
~ Oscar Isaac
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
~ Queen Elizabeth II
I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.
~ Jacqueline Novogratz
I've reached the age of 32 with little wisdom, I'm afraid. It's tragic. I still have to turn to my mum and dad for every decision I make in life.
~ Russell Howard
I grew up in an apartment that would have made a trailer look really decadent and nice. Pretty much the only dependable thing I had was books.
~ Seanan McGuire
The biggest danger is that actors become entirely too dependent on the idea of training. They think that if they continue to train and train and train, it's going to make them better.
~ Titus Welliver
We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It's experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.
~ Robert Greene
Historically, we have lived in a nation of energy dependence. Dependence on others for our heating and electricity, and for our fuel for transportation.
~ Mike Pompeo
A global system that links 2.2. billion people across hundreds of countries, allows every user to post content indiscriminately, develops algorithms that favor highly charged content, and is dependent on a self-service advertising system that precisely target ads using massive surveillance and elaborate personal dossiers cannot be reformed at the edges.
~ Siva Vaidhyanathan