Quotes About Dependence

But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nation's economic viability.

If we don't continue to pursue alternative, emissions-free energy sources like nuclear fuel, we are at risk of increasing our dependence on costly natural gas.

I wonder if she's infatuated enough to let me lock her in a box with me on a cool fall day and make love like America depends on us.

But I feel like I could not live... if you weren't in my life." -Nik Driver

I really don't know what "I love you" means.I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.

Self-confidence doesn't worth much, God-confidence is it!

Save me, I need you, life is sad without you

Why do you always rescue me?" — "Every Cinderella needs a fairy godmother. But sometimes your fairy godmother needs you right back.

Most likely, your issue, is that NO ONE has REALLY been there for YOU in YOUR life.

She was his only escape, And she was his only prison.

They asked me why I loved him, and I said: "Because he doesn't remember how to love himself.

She always says I'm the best friend that she's ever had... how do you hang up on someone who needs you that bad? ~From 'Laura' on The Nylon Curtain

If you think deep inside yourself that you can not live except in the presence of someone that is not true, but this feeling remains true and this is more important than anything else .

Is that what love is all about? Needing them to come back to you when they're away? To come home and keep you safe?

He does not understand the intangible force (and intelligence) wrapped up in the soil of the earth—the force which provides him with every morsel of food he eats, every article of clothing he wears, every dollar he carries in his pockets

You have the good judgment to make yourself so useful that the person to whom you sell your services cannot get along without you.

we are not made to view things as independent from each other. When viewing two events A and B, it is hard not to assume that A causes B, B causes A, or both cause each other. Our bias is immediately to establish a causal link.

A turkey is fed for a thousand days by a butcher; every day confirms to its staff of analysts that butchers love turkeys "with increased statistical confidence.

Someone who has been employed for a while is giving you strong evidence of submission.

When you are employed, hence dependent on other people's judgment, looking busy can help you claim responsibility for the results in a random environment. The appearance of busyness reinforces the perception of causality, of the link between results and one's role in them.

today we depend on the press for such essentially human things as gossip and anecdotes and we care about the private lives of people in very remote places.

domain-specific I mean that our reactions, our mode of thinking, our intuitions, depend on the context in which the matter is presented, what

The turkey problem can be generalized to any situation where the same hand that feeds you can be the one that wrings your neck.

that we depend on them for what information we need to obtain.