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Quotes About Dependence

Women always need other women to lean on. They become friends in order to hate each other better. The more they hate each other, the more inseparable they become.
~ Herta Muller
Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
God always has and always will look for men and women who say to Him, 'I trust you so much, I'm all in. I want your way not mine. I am willing to live by faith!'
~ Chip Ingram
Of course I don't think any of the past will go away. The thing is, with me and Stephen, for many years, I put every spoon of food into his mouth, dressed him, and bathed him. You do not forget that experience.
~ Jane Hawking
For a big man, it's a little different because you don't always have the ball. Not handling the ball and playing pick and roll and doing all that where you can find your spot. You're kind of depending on others a lot.
~ Nikola Vucevic
We have to try to convince everybody in America, that if you eat you're involved in agriculture. That the shirts don't just spring up at Kmart on the rack. They're made from cotton.
~ Mike Espy
In our globalized world, our domestic prosperity depends heavily on the world economy, which, of course, requires stability and order. Who provides that stability and order? The U.S. military.
~ Tom Cotton
Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement.
~ Keith Ellison
I am being taken care of by a higher being than myself or my coaches or my training staff.
~ Rebecca Lobo
The FCC can and indeed should do more to protect the Internet as the free and open environment people have come to expect and depend on - which is why we need to stand up to attacks on the FCC's authority.
~ Chellie Pingree
I liked that improv and sketch comedy were collaborative, but you really depended on other people and a stage to perform. With stand-up comedy, I liked that you had no one else to blame and depend on.
~ Ali Wong
O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.
~ William Shakespeare
How I regret now that my perpetual emotional dependence on the man I love has killed all my other talents - my energy too: and I had such a lot of that once.
~ Sophia Tolstaya
A man without a woman is like a neck without a pain.
~ W. C. Fields
A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than a man of genius who interests us.
~ Marcel Proust
A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ.
~ Martin Luther
If a man owns land, the land owns him.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man is an island; but some are peninsulas.
~ Robin Williams
Without God, man cannot, and without man, God will not.
~ Saint Augustine
A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.
~ Sinclair Lewis
You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night.
~ Betty Grable
Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
~ Havelock Ellis
A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.
~ John Banville