Quotes About Dependence

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

Only now did I become throughly acquainted with the seducer of our people. It is not the inequality which is the real misfortune, it is the dependance.

Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

Note that there is a monumental difference between well-motivated humans working for God in their own strength, wisdom, and power versus God working through humans.

Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain.22

We have here a human as well as an economic problem. When humane considerations are concerned, Americans give them precedence. The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fibre. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit.

The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit. It is inimical to the dictates of sound policy. It is in violation of the traditions of America.

The reality is that we are bodies born from other bodies, bodies feeding other bodies, bodies having sex with other bodies, bodies seeking a shoulder to lean or cry on, bodies traveling long distances to be close to other bodies, and on.

An actor, to spend his entire life as an actor, has to have the mind of a child. A writer at sixty can be a Steinbeck, a Faulkner, or a Hemingway. An actor at sixty can make a funny face or do a creaky dance. The actor lives a reasonable-facsimile existence while cavorting in an unreal world. The value of an actor's services are determined by the needs of another person.

We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence.

His version of 'real' love isn't sufficient for me, I don't think anyone should settle for so little. It wasn't love - not in the true sense. On my part, it was neediness, insecurity, dependence, habit - desperate to feel loved by a man who was often ambivalent towards me.

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.

She would have to depend on her brother, who had better intentions than ability when it came to coloring inside the lines.

Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Never let your life depend on the competence of someone whose life isn't also on the line.

But why do you care? What does it matter?" "You're my only Bridgeboy," Adolin said with a grin. "Where would I get another?

Oh, and one thing. Please, please don't depend on me too much. I mean that. I'm not going to be of much help. If your plots come to a head—if things go wrong at the last moment and you're in danger or distress—don't think of me. I will fail you. That I promise from my heart with absolute sincerity." - Lightsong

Funny, how quickly someone can stop calling you a miscreant and a rogue when they want your help

Too much in high society is built around the idea of making certain you don't need to trust anyone," Waxillium said. "Contracts, detailed operating reports, not being seen alone with an eligible member of the opposite gender. If you remove the foundation of trust from a relationship, then what is the point of that relationship?

You trusted me enough to jump off the wall, and I caught you.

The more alone you are," Waxillium said softly, "the more important it is to have someone you can rely upon.