Quotes About Dependence

Runa was alone and inexperienced, which made her vulnerable. Sheltering her, aiding her, or associating with her brought no advantages.

When it's over, you will come to me and you will ask me to take charge of you.

You need someone to take care of you, Maud, whether you want to admit it or not.

The dog attacked it like her life depended on her victory over the cold chicken.

If I have a book that thinks for me, a pastor who acts as my conscience, a physician who prescribes my diet, and so on... then I have no need to exert myself. I have no need to think, if only I can pay; others will take care of that disagreeable business for me.

Sometimes, all you can do for a person is be there. Just don't let them convince you that they don't need you. They do. And they will.

I can't see how anything can ever happen to us — I mean, I feel as if, if we leave this place, we shall crumble to pieces.

I can't believe in your other attachment.

His friends will decline in their numbers as his needs increase. The inverse, or perverse, mathematics ay life.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Stoop, then, or you will be beaten to your knees. Stoop voluntarily, and you may save a remnant. You have depended on metal and power and they have sustained you as far as they could. You have ignored mind and morale and they have failed you.

He was detecting what we—he and I—knew he would detect—that we were not our own masters. And I didn't want to know!

She had been born to cradle other people's children, wear their hand-me-down clothing, eat their leftovers, live on borrowed happiness and grief, grow old beneath other people's roofs, die one day in her miserable little room in the far courtyard in a bed that did not belong to her, and be buried in a common grave in the public cemetery.

I was terrified of being dependent too, Alma," Dr. Catherine Hope told her one day. "But I've realized it's not such a big deal. You get used to it, and are grateful for the assistance. I can't dress or take a shower on my own, I have problems brushing my teeth and cutting the chicken on my plate, but I've never been more contented than I am now.

I haven't forgotten. But if I fail you, you can rely on Cathy.

Con humildad duele menos la humillación cotidiana de depender. Sin embargo, la invalidez del cuerpo me trajo un inesperado regalo: me dio una inmensa libertad de la mente.

I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.

It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.

My life is ... a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand, as though 1 were led by the hand in a night where I see nothing, but can fully depend on the love and protection of Him who guides me.

Borrowing is not much better than begging.

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.

The borrower is servant to die lender.

I know on which side my bread is buttered.

Give us this day our daily bread.