Quotes About Dependence

This is the man who called the fire department when the toilet backed up, and I'm asking him for help. What was I thinking? Why am I attracted to weak men?

I have told you because you are the only person in this entire world I can trust. And I do need to trust someone.

Nasuada told me of what Az Sweldn rak Anhûin attempted. Always you get into trouble when I am not with you. His smile widened. And when you are? I eat the trouble before it eats you.

I was upset. I had always believed logic was a universal weapon and now I realized how its validity depended on the way it was employed.

Life on board the Oriole exemplified the old-time saying: "Whose bread I eat, his song I sing

We have nothing. We solace ourselves with the great men of our tribe, the Gandhi and the Nehru, and we castrate ourselves. 'Here, take my manhood and invest it for me. Take my manhood and be a greater man yourself, for my sake!

He was, after all, like other high officials. I wondered why I thought he would be different. These men, who depended on the President's favour for everything, were bundles of nerves. The great power they excercised went with a constant fear of being destroyed.

Romania was the greatest exception with GDP up strongly by about 55% but with the country's material consumption expanding 2.5 times during the decade, a clear case of rising inefficiency of material use and increasing dependence of economic growth on higher material inputs.

We take the staples of modern life so much for granted until we're deprived of them. People do live quite well without what we consider to be basics, but they manage because they've never been de-skilled by their presence. To lose them when you've lived all your life with power at the touch of a switch and water at the turn of a tap is shocking, then unsettling, then grindingly depressing.

Oh, for that first hit of the day, the blessed nicotine hitting the bloodstream and snapping the synapses to attention.

She seemed to represent a conscious choice between (1) a healthy, strong future of thriving and surviving and (2) a slothful existence of inactivity, illness, decline, and dependence.

Everybody keeps saying be satisfied with Jesus's love, and he will give us our daily bread. I keep waiting, but we never get any bread, so I have to go out and do things for myself.

Oh, that most helpless and shameful of times in the life of my people, the time from dawn until the liquor stores open up!

Confiar es a veces abandonar.

He plainly perceived this truth, the basis of his life henceforth, that so long as she should be alive, so long as he should have her with him, he should need nothing except for her, and fear nothing save on her account.

There are miraculous relationships between beings and things; in this inexhaustible whole, from sun to aphid, no one looks down on anyone else; everyone needs each other. Light

But you must have a ladys maid. Don't I have Marius?

TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER

Leni was afraid to stay and afraid to leave. It was strange—stupid, even—but she often felt like the only adult in her family, as if she were the ballast that kept the creaky Allbright boat on an even keel.

A girl was like a kite; without her mother's strong, steady hold on the string, she might just float away, be lost somewhere among the clouds.

I do," she said quietly, stung by the sudden thought that without him, no one would know her that well.

What will we be without him?" Meredith whispered, clinging to her. "Less," was all Nina could think of to say.

you don't stop loving a person when they're hurt. You get stronger so they can lean on you. He needs me. Us.

You are my sunlight in the dark and the ground beneath my feet. Because of you, I can survive