Quotes About Dependence

habit of trusting breaks you badly

a being as dependent on his cultural inheritance as man cannot escape convention so easily: and the desire to do so has itself become a cliché.

large and honest, but indifferent or incompetent, state bureaucracy creates expectations that give rise to this dialectic of dependence and resentment, which does not exist in Italy, where no one would assume the honesty and therefore the benevolence of the public administration in the first place.

At once more social and more self-reliant than their British counterparts, they were men whose dignity had not been destroyed by a culture of dependence.

I must tell you this, Maggie. Your letters are my lifeline. Your threat to stop them terrified me. Never stop writing to me, I implore you.

Lo que más impide la consolación celestial, es que muy tarde vuelves a la oración. Porque antes de orar con atención, buscas muchas consolaciones, y te recreas en lo exterior. De aquí viene que todo te aprovecha poco, hasta que conozcas que yo soy el que libro para los que esperan en Mí; y fuera de Mí no hay auxilio eficaz, consejo provechoso, ni remedio durable.

2. Boast not thyself in thy riches if thou hast them, nor in thy friends if they be powerful, but in God, who giveth all things,

The highest does not stand without the lowest.

Vano es el que pone su esperanza en los hombres o en las criaturas

Secondly, a thing is said to preserve another 'per se' and directly, namely, when what is preserved depends on the preserver in such a way that it cannot exist without it. In this manner all creatures need to be preserved by God. For the being of every creature depends on God, so that not for a moment could it subsist, but would fall into nothingness were it not kept in being by the operation of the Divine power, as Gregory says (Moral. xvi).

He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.

What is common to all of these examples is the way people's behavior depends on how many are behaving a particular way, or how much they are behaving that way—how many attend the seminar how frequently

Not the Opium-eater, but the opium, is the true hero of the tale, and the legitimate centre on which the interest revolves.

In one way or another, all my songs are about the necessity for trust.

The skills necessary to change nappies or negotiate Brexit are obviously very different, but both involve a great deal of trust in the competence of the people doing the job.

Either we trust in God, and in that case we neither trust in ourselves, nor in our fellow-men, nor in circumstances, nor in anything besides; or we do trust in one or more of these, and in that case do not trust in God.

I care for the poor. I am the one willing to work with the poor and have a safety net we can all depend on and make people understand that nothing in life is free. You have to get back to society.

I needed Nick Saban more than I needed Pete Carroll.

The actor is in the hands of a lot of other people, over which he has no control.

All bowlers depend on movement, and I am no exception.

No man is an island...

This, really, is the bottom line, the chief attraction of the opposite sex for all of us, old and young, men and women: we need someone to save us from the sympathetic smiles in the Sunday-night cinema queue, someone who can stop us from falling down into the pit where the permanently single live with their mums and dads. I'm not going back there again; I'd rather stay in for the rest of my life than attract that kind of attention.

Quasi tutta la gente ha una corda che la lega a qualcuno, e la corda può essere corta, oppure lunga. È che tu non lo sai quanto è lunga. Non è tua la scelta.

They were all waiting for a man. Men were going to scoop them up in a net and take them home and put them into an even smaller tank. Not all of them were waiting to find a man, because some of them had already found one, but it didn't stop the waiting. A few were waiting for a man to make up his mind and fewer still, the lucky ones, were waiting for a man who'd already made up his mind to make enough money. Barbara